So a lot has happened since we last posted to our little adventure diary. I really wanted to post something yesterday but an Internet signal weaker than me after a leg session in the gym, meant I was unable to.

If you have been keeping up with our travels, and I truly hope you have, you would know that we left off having just experienced a pretty rubbish day of traveling from Penang to KL. A Day Soph rated as being her worst yet. Since then we have a had a full day experiencing Kuala Lumpur. And you know what? We bloody loved it!

We started the day as we usually do by sleeping in and missing the breakfast we’d already paid for. Really have to stop doing that. After grabbing a map off the hostel reception desk we headed over to the bus station just behind Chinatown. Here we could get a free bus to pretty much all the main sections of the city. FREE! As in you don’t have to pay. We couldn’t believe it! In fact we loved the whole idea of it being free so much that we went all the way round. Twice. Nothing to do with the fact we had got off at the wrong stop. Then got back on the bus only to realise we were right in the first place and had to go all the way round to get there again. We just enjoyed the freeness of it all. We couldn’t stop wondering why London, or everywhere for that matter, hasn’t got a free bus service.

Our first point of call was the KL Tower. Not to be mistaken for the iconic Twin Towers you may have seen on TV, this KL Tower is simply a telephone communications tower. With a restaurant and a viewing deck. You get three options when you go in. First option is to go 280m up and look through the windows of the lower viewing deck. Second option is to visit the restaurant a little higher up. Thirdly you can go all 421m to the open deck where you are, if you’re a total nut case, literally able to just jump off.

The view is spectacular. I mean it’s a crazy way up in the sky but if you can over the fact it isn’t about to topple over, it really is a sight to behold. It’s strange that when you are that high up you do get a sudden urge to either jump or throw something over the side. Like when your holding a balloon and you let go slightly before grabbing it again. Luckily I held on to my camera and Soph never mustered up the courage to launch me off the side, so all round it was a really enjoyable experience.

On the way down we had a look from the lower viewing deck. Obviously it wasn’t quite as good. One, because your not as high up. And two because it’s busy with kids running around and loads of tacky merchandise being sold off the side. You can look more directly towards the ground than the open deck, but I was pretty happy we’d spent the extra to go all the way.

Once back on solid ground we decided to hop back on the bus to the shopping centre. Obviously with it being Christmas just around the corner, everything was dressed in decorations and plastic Father Christmases. It all looks pretty rubbish during the day, but when the Sun goes down everything looks totally different.

We stayed wandering around the many different shopping malls for hours. Taking time to stop off in two separate Starbucks just to grab some WiFi signal after buying a couple of new t-shirts. Mine have shrunk again. You can feel pretty weird after two back to back toffee nut lattes. Especially when you eaten nothing but a donut all day. The free internet was worth it though.

We were waiting for the Sun to go down so we could see all he Christmas decorations in their full glory, and of course to to see KLs most famous attraction. The Petronas Twin Towers. To get there you have to walk through the shopping mall to another shopping mall. This has a walkway over a busy main road to another shopping mall and an escalator up to a shopping mall. You could spend an absolute fortune in KL. They must spend everyday shopping here. Each mall is attached or opposite one another. And they all have the same shops. So if you can’t find your size in one just go over the road or across the bridge. You’ll find it somewhere. I had the slightly embarrassing moment of realising I was a double extra small in the Malaysian Topman. XXS! They may as well have just pointed me to the kids section. Or the gym….

When we finally came outside after following all the Twin Tower signs we thought we had made a wrong turn. The signs had all gone and so had the shops. It wasn’t until we looked up did we realise we were directly below them. During the day they look pretty good. But at night these towers look like nothing we’ve ever seen before. They are huge. And yet just earlier today we were looking down on them from the top of the KL Tower, now lit up behind another skyscraper. There were crowds of people all trying to get photos with the towers. Selfies upon selfies. Some as couples. Some pretending to hold the towers in their hands. Some pretending to wee on them by standing by the water fountains in front.

We walked through the shops under the towers to the other side where we found a giant Christmas tree and a musical water fountain display. We stayed and watched for a while longer before taking our last few photos and heading back to catch the last bus. Of course our walk back took us through more shops and restaurants, but we were pretty happy to stick to our now favourite evening meal of noodles in a cup from the 7/11 store. You got to save the funds somewhere.

When we got back to the hostel we asked the reception if they could book us a bus to Singapore for the next day. Something you would perhaps think in the UK would be a crazy thing to do. Leaving it until midnight to book a bus to another country for the very same day. Apparently here they do too. We had to wake up this morning and make our way to the bus terminal ourselves and book the ticket for the next possible bus.

Now that is something we have done. We are in fact now in Singapore. But I will leave today’s story for tomorrow. Let’s just say the travel was worse than that of Penang to KL, and we are so glad we don’t have to go through any border crossings on foot any time soon.

So as I say I will carry on tomorrow, but for now we are staying at Soph’s aunt’s brother’s apartment in Singapore. That’s Soph’s….aunt’s….brother’s….
After today’s experience and the hostels we’ve been in the last week, it feels like an absolute paradise. Thank you Howard.

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