I have a new appreciation for the little things! Like HOT showers!!! We are staying with Cathy and Alan, family friends of Kalenes. It is soooo nice to have home cooked meals and comfortable beds and of course a real western toilet complete with toilet paper. Their apartment is right in the heart of KL and the view from their balcony is breathtaking. Right across the street is the KLCC, a huge complex with everything you could ever want. We have spent a considerable time in the giant mall there.
Aside from shopping, we have spent our days exploring the city. We are now experts at navigating the monorail system here which is super convenient and one of the cleanest public transportation systems I have ever seen. We are very impressed with the city, it's sort of like an Asian New York. On Sunday we went to Chinatown where you can get fake perfume, purses, sunglasses, and random squares of mystery meat. It was very crowded with tourists and people selling things everywhere. The next day we walked around to where the museums and gardens are but didn't have much luck getting in. Everything was either closed because it was Monday or closed to us as non Muslim tourists. Definitely got our exercise walking around there and lost 100 liters of water sweating in the heavy city heat. Today we went around Little India and found lots of cheap shopping which was a nice change from seeing Gucci and Chanel in the mall. Much more in our price range. We had another delicious banana leaf meal eating with our hands like pros now. Everyone there was so friendly and there was tons of head wagging which is what Indians do when they are agreeing with you, I think anyways, they do it a lot and I'm not always sure what it means. We are going to have to practice it before we go to India.
We are getting spoiled with our meals here. Cathy is a fantastic cook and it has been so nice to have FRESH vegetables and things that aren't fried noodles or fried rice. The other night we took over the kitchen and made a delicious meal of bruschetta, pesto pasta, and greek salad. YUM. Tonight is round two and involves lemon and herb chicken, scalloped potatoes, dijon asparagus, and salad. Pretty excited.
Tomorrow we take off to Bali!!!!!!!! We are looking forward to getting out of the city and back to the beach.
Aside from shopping, we have spent our days exploring the city. We are now experts at navigating the monorail system here which is super convenient and one of the cleanest public transportation systems I have ever seen. We are very impressed with the city, it's sort of like an Asian New York. On Sunday we went to Chinatown where you can get fake perfume, purses, sunglasses, and random squares of mystery meat. It was very crowded with tourists and people selling things everywhere. The next day we walked around to where the museums and gardens are but didn't have much luck getting in. Everything was either closed because it was Monday or closed to us as non Muslim tourists. Definitely got our exercise walking around there and lost 100 liters of water sweating in the heavy city heat. Today we went around Little India and found lots of cheap shopping which was a nice change from seeing Gucci and Chanel in the mall. Much more in our price range. We had another delicious banana leaf meal eating with our hands like pros now. Everyone there was so friendly and there was tons of head wagging which is what Indians do when they are agreeing with you, I think anyways, they do it a lot and I'm not always sure what it means. We are going to have to practice it before we go to India.
We are getting spoiled with our meals here. Cathy is a fantastic cook and it has been so nice to have FRESH vegetables and things that aren't fried noodles or fried rice. The other night we took over the kitchen and made a delicious meal of bruschetta, pesto pasta, and greek salad. YUM. Tonight is round two and involves lemon and herb chicken, scalloped potatoes, dijon asparagus, and salad. Pretty excited.
Tomorrow we take off to Bali!!!!!!!! We are looking forward to getting out of the city and back to the beach.
Our host family, Cathy and Alan, with the delicious meal we made
biggest chair in KL. . so much fun to jump on!
the infamous twin towers of KL, right outside our apartment
Cathys cooking- YUM
the view from our apartment at night
our favourite place in the whole city- the KLCC mall
flip flops!
our experience eating durian- the smelliest fruit in the whole world
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