Malaysia

The journey to Malaysia was actually pretty nice in comparison to some that we had been doing recently. The worst part was that we had to go 5 hours across the same part of Thailand 3 times in less than 2 weeks. When we finally arrived in Kuala Lumpur we got to our room and realised it wasn’t in the area where we wanted to stay and it was utter shit. In our first evening there we first managed to find a new place to stay and then went out and drank expensive drinks all night.

Most of Kuala Lumpur was pretty disappointing really. We had to go electronics shopping which took most of our first day and then another few hours the day after due to our great indecisiveness and the overwhelming size of the shopping centre we were in; 6 floors of shops selling just electronic goods.

We when we were done with electronics shopping we went up to the PETRONAS towers to try and go up them. Unfortunately they are so busy that you have to buy a ticket to come back later, when we were there at 10 all the tickets for the observation deck for the day had been sold and tickets to the bridge halfway up were sold out until 4! We decided it was something we should do so we bought the tickets and came back later. 

In the time we were away the weather changed from clear blue skys to a massive storm. This meant we could see exactly nothing from the bridge! On the way back we realised the water level in a storm drain had risen about 4 meters from almost nothing to a raging torrent! 

On our last day there we went to a park a small walk from our hotel and then Pete got a tattoo in a shopping center that also boasted a roller coaster.

We got around Kuala Lumpur mostly using the monorail system which meant having the Simpsons monorail song stuck in our heads for 3 days. The best part of the monorail was that the line we took to get home terminated in a place called Titiwangsa, always good for a laugh.