Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Malysia is beautiful!!
Okay, so it's not as great as Indonesia, but we all really love Kuala Lumpur (the capital).
We got in on Wednesday evening and met this really lovely British woman named Annette who had been teaching English for a year in Indonesia with English First. She had been to KL before and helped us get a taxi and find our hostel, which was really great of her. Then we met up with her for dinner at this kind of sketchy Indian resto down the street from us (but the food was really, really good...). Good times.
So then Thursday we decided to sleep until we woke up (aka no alarm for the first time in 6 weeks...sweetness!). Then after getting showered and such we headed out into the city. It didn't take us very long to figure out KL's monorail system (it's super easy and really well planned out), after which we headed to see Masjid Jamek (a really pretty pink mosque, but it was closed so we couldn't go in and tour). Then we walked around a bit, hit up this huge Craft Complex (which was too rich for our blood so we bought Famous Amos ice cream instead), got bombarded by random men saying "Hey Miss, mooey?" (losely translated as they wanted us to purchase their bootleg DVDs), and visited the National Mosque. At the National Mosque we were able to put on robes and head scarves and actually go in and visit. We met this really great volunteer there who told us lots about Islam and dispelled a lot of the myths Westerners typically have about the religion. Then she invited us to go to her house that evening because she and her friends were reading the Koran. She was really great. And the mosque was beautiful!!!
So then we just came back to the hostel and hung out a bit. We went to bed relatively early and woke up Friday morning to go to the skybridge of KL's Twin Towers (now the tallest twin towers in the world) - the same skybridge that Catherine Zeta Jones crawled all around in the movie Entrapment, in case you were wondering. The view was pretty great, but we didn't stay very long. We came back to the hostel and got ready (we practically went to the towers in our PJs), then headed out for a day of shopping and fun times. We hit up Chinatown again to look at cheap knock-offs and dried fruit (which is SO good!). We walked by a Hindu temple, but it was closed so we couldn't go in even though it was really cool looking from the outside. Then we went to Berjaya Times Square, which is this HUGE mall with twelve floors of shopping and food and there is even a full on theme park in the mall, complete with roller coaster and tons of rides. It was soooooo cool!!
The hostel is great - we have met so many cool people and have lots of stories that I cannot relay just yet because I'm running out of time...but I will write later.
Bangkok tomorrow :)
~ Tori =)
Okay, so it's not as great as Indonesia, but we all really love Kuala Lumpur (the capital).
We got in on Wednesday evening and met this really lovely British woman named Annette who had been teaching English for a year in Indonesia with English First. She had been to KL before and helped us get a taxi and find our hostel, which was really great of her. Then we met up with her for dinner at this kind of sketchy Indian resto down the street from us (but the food was really, really good...). Good times.
So then Thursday we decided to sleep until we woke up (aka no alarm for the first time in 6 weeks...sweetness!). Then after getting showered and such we headed out into the city. It didn't take us very long to figure out KL's monorail system (it's super easy and really well planned out), after which we headed to see Masjid Jamek (a really pretty pink mosque, but it was closed so we couldn't go in and tour). Then we walked around a bit, hit up this huge Craft Complex (which was too rich for our blood so we bought Famous Amos ice cream instead), got bombarded by random men saying "Hey Miss, mooey?" (losely translated as they wanted us to purchase their bootleg DVDs), and visited the National Mosque. At the National Mosque we were able to put on robes and head scarves and actually go in and visit. We met this really great volunteer there who told us lots about Islam and dispelled a lot of the myths Westerners typically have about the religion. Then she invited us to go to her house that evening because she and her friends were reading the Koran. She was really great. And the mosque was beautiful!!!
So then we just came back to the hostel and hung out a bit. We went to bed relatively early and woke up Friday morning to go to the skybridge of KL's Twin Towers (now the tallest twin towers in the world) - the same skybridge that Catherine Zeta Jones crawled all around in the movie Entrapment, in case you were wondering. The view was pretty great, but we didn't stay very long. We came back to the hostel and got ready (we practically went to the towers in our PJs), then headed out for a day of shopping and fun times. We hit up Chinatown again to look at cheap knock-offs and dried fruit (which is SO good!). We walked by a Hindu temple, but it was closed so we couldn't go in even though it was really cool looking from the outside. Then we went to Berjaya Times Square, which is this HUGE mall with twelve floors of shopping and food and there is even a full on theme park in the mall, complete with roller coaster and tons of rides. It was soooooo cool!!
The hostel is great - we have met so many cool people and have lots of stories that I cannot relay just yet because I'm running out of time...but I will write later.
Bangkok tomorrow :)
~ Tori =)
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