Travel Diary: Kool KL

Boarding to KL

Empty Malaysian Airlines flight

I had a hours nap before heading out to find the Monorail (I can’t help but sing the song out of The Simpsons episode) as we are a fair way from the KLCC (Kuala Lumpur City Centre).  The hotel is located in a strange position down some quiet streets so it’s about a 10 minute walk to the monorail.  They literally stuff you on the train it’s so full.  We had to stand and Shaun had a wobble and slow-mo nearly sat on a man’s lap! I thought it was absolutely hilarious … must be his meds!  A few short stops and changing line we were at KLCC and literally right under the Petronas Towers.  We had a walk around the shopping mall and just so happens to be a booth selling tickets for the Moto GP which is in Sepang the day before our flight leaves for Sydney.  Shaun couldn’t believe the coincidence and we ended up booking it for when we come back to KL on 26th.  Shaun is sooooooo excited, but after he has been ill he needed some cheering up!  We wanted to go up the Petronas Towers but there is a 2 day waiting list or you can queue up at 7am in the morning for the chance of getting a ticket that day, we opted for booking in on Sunday.

Michael Jackson Room

The Petronas Towers

In the evening we went out for some street food on Jalan Alor.  Little did we know we have already been here when we came on our first travels in 2008, it still looked the same 6 years later!  We had some really yummy food sat amongst the locals watching the weird and wonderful ‘entertainment’.  I say this loosely as it’s really just people walking up and down the street blaring music out of a boom box trying to sing along!