Kuala Lumpur

We had a good flight to Kuala Lumpur and were met at the airport by our Mayflower driver. It’s a big drive to the city-45 minutes down toll ways at speeds mostly round 120kmh so I imagine it was 60 or 70ks. We passed lots of coconut plantations and lots (and lots) of new housing (thousands and thousands of apartment buildings and townhouses). They were scary in their sameness.

On arrival at the hotel, we were really impressed until we discovered they didn’t have a booking for us! So, we have now had to pay again while we wait (hopefully) for it to be sorted out. The travel company here (Mayflower) claims to have no money sent for accommodation for us in KL, only transfers!

The hotel is way better than we two povey pensioners have ever stayed in before-the bathroom is enourmous and beautiful with lights and mirrors and huge bath and separate shower-the whole thing is as big as a bedroom. We look directly out our tenth floor window at the twin towers of KL. They are amongst the tallest buildings in the world and very beautiful day or night. If we stand right at the window and look left, we can see the KL tower-also very beautiful at night. We also have a monorail station nearby and plan to take a ride on that while we are here. The hotel is right in the middle of a really good shopping (about 5 huge shopping centres) and restaurant district, so now I wish I had more than three nights here!

The View from Our Room

The shops open late, so after finally working out how to connect to the internet, I sent a frantic e-mail to our travel agent in Aus and then we went shopping. We stopped for dinner on the way home and had bbqued pork (the first I’ve seen on a menu), duck, beautiful veg in oyster sauce, rice and prawn dumpling soup, 7up and a Chinese tea for 39RM

Nighttime View KL Twin Towers