Blogs from Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia, Asia - page 4

Noc totalne nahovno. Po kyblovej sprche prakticky za 5.min hned spoteny. Ranajky ubohe, len toasty s dzemom a caj. V lobby teplo, tak som sa na to vyprdol a rukami som neanglicky hovoriacemu recepcnemu ukazal na auto a naznacil lietadlo. O par minut uz sedim v aute a smer 5km vzdialene letisko. Pri vstupe sa plati poplatok za auto. Vodic ode mna pytal 6k, dal som mu 4k, i ked recepcny vravel, ze odvoz je zdarma. Nech sa s nima zadrhne. Pred vstupom postavalo kopa ludi, ktory blokovali vstup do haly. Sak jebnuty moslimi. Prva security opat problem s gelom na holenie. Ale prechadzam aj s vodou. Net rychly, tak cakanie pri domacich branach. Brana c.7 pre medzinarodne odlety (2 za den, singapur a kl) sa otvara cca hodinku a stvrt pred odletom. No otvara. Security ... read more

Our honeymoon started with a long drive to Melbourne to catch our Air Asia flight from Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur. We had a night stay planned in Kuala Lumpur as we both love KL and I wanted to show Todd ALOFT, my favourite hotel in KL. ALOFT is centrally located at the KL Sentral train station. You can get the express train from the airport direct to this station and it takes 25 minutes as opposed to an hour in a taxi. It is an expensive ride at 55RM per person (about the same as a taxi) but its quick and easy so my preferred option. Once we arrived in Melbourne we unloaded the car then headed to a local Italian restaurant which was a 2 min drive from our hotel. I had a Ceaser salad ... read more

Na ranajky pobrate smerom k stanici pasar seni (metro, mhd). Zapadam u inda v poulicnom stanku na parkovisku. To tu uz o mesiac asi nebude, bo tu rozmeravaju novu budovu. Davam roti placky a caj. Na ulici ako kazde rano porozkladany rozny predajci oblecenia. Vsetko poukladane na plachte na zemi. Vyzeralo to ako second hand. Podchodom okolo mesity, motylieho parku sa dostavam do oblubenej botanickej zahrady. Pri amfiku (free wifi) kontrola cs ziadosti na dnes stretko. Jedno mam dohodnute ale len na poobedie. 5 pozitivnych ohlasov avsak nie na dnes, tak teda po 30.septembri. Pri amfiku fajn umely vodopad. Po odpocinku prechadzka parkom. Nesmeli chybat fotiace sa nevesty, pospavajuci pracovnici parku po lavickach a jedna skupinka aj realne pracujucich spravcov parku. Ti tu kosili, ostrihavali stromky, cistili priestranstva. Napajam sa na dalsiu wifi (hodina fre... read more

I always love catching up with my friend Steve, that's 8 years now we've been meeting in random places and this time it's at the airport in Kuala Lumpur. He's just arrived from the US and I'm just down from Langkawi on route to Scotland. So we catch transport into Chinatown and have a bit of an explore round. I booked us into the Traveler's rest guest house for the night and we went out for dinner which was fabulous fish at the local Chinese hawkers which was delicious followed by a wander round the markets and a beer or two at the Reggae Bar . We didn't get out of Chinatown but I enjoyed the night anyway. Next day we left for the airport again with Steve heading off to Cambodia and me heading to ... read more

Kuala Lumpur unabashedly embraces generic capitalism, and its pride seamlessly connects the sprawling network of shopping malls with clean, air-conditioned, covered walkways, well-planned parks, and excellent public transport. You can find every brand name store imaginable. Some seem to only be there as an advertisement, like the Salomon store that had maybe 20 items and no running shoes. Being a child of the 80s, there was something oddly reassuring about walking through a busy indoor mall. Peggy and I stayed at an Airbnb at Fraser Place, one of countless residential skyscrapers where one must factor in time waiting for the elevator to go to one of 25 characterless floors. I'm sure there are still plenty of alleyways left where you can experience the traditional culture, but it's possible to visit the city center and believe it ... read more