First weekend in KL

Geeting the hang of things now. It always takes a few days in a new place to get your bearings. But once you know where north is, the price of fuel, and the cost of a simple meal you know where you are! Most of my early pictures are on my now out-of-date Fuji FinePix camera on a SmartMedia card, the sort they don't make any more. When I find a suitable card reader I'll upload some.

On Friday, after a few hours sleep we have a quick lunch - roti cenai of course - and head off to the driverless LRT (see picture on previous post) to get into the city. It's a brilliant light rail transit system (click here for info) even though the locals prefer their car.

Get off at the Twin Towers - that's the Petronas Towers - and find out out that the free tickets to the viewing bridge at the 41st floor are all gone. So what do you do in KL if there's nothing else to do? Go shopping of course. Suria KLCC is an amazing place (cheesy website here) but it's only one of many... Nice gardens and park to chill out in (but as it's KL make that heat up in). A couple of hours here gawping at Jimmy Choos, Bvlgari, Louis Vuitton, Prada, and Versace is a bit tiring! So we head off to the other end of the scale and the slightly scabby Central Market. More realistic and authentic and you can even barter, but at 7RM=1GBP it's not really worth it! Grab a bite to eat at the food court and blow my head off with the hottest Tom Yum soup I've ever had. Head becomes a shower! On the way back buy a phone card so now I can have a local number. 014-6396103 if you want to give me a call!

After a bit of a restless and still jet lagged night, we go to Sunway Park Lagoon. Taxi only 5RM = 70p! This is an amazing place built in a former tin mine lagoon some 50m below ground level. There is off course the obligatory mega shopping complex and everything is themed on the Egyptian style with the main hall a giant pyramid (obviously). The park also has the world's largest man made surfing wave machine which generates 2m high waves. Luckily for us it is not that busy so we get thoroughly wet all afternoon. Lola is a bit self concsious as she thinks she is the only white person there. Meanwhile marion is in her bikini...... Ooer! And there are lots of women in burkhas and hijabs and head scaves.