Freckles and tans
Who'd have thought it possible? After a week at the beach I've got a tan (possibly not compared to anyone else, but let's leave that aside) and Vaughn found room for more freckles!
We spent last week in Kuala Lumpur, sightseeing, sweating and shopping. Vaughn might try to tell you that most of the time was spent with me shopping, but you should ask him about his drum. And t shirts. And CDs. And the many, many bags we looked at. For him. And of course I did my little bit to help the Malaysian economy :)
We arrived in KL after an early flight from Kuala Terengganu where we spent a night after our time at the Perhentians, and were met at the train station by one of the guys from the hostel we had decided to stay at. He was there touting for business (for the hostel), and since we'd already decided we wanted to stay there it seemed a fortuitous start. The hostel was awesome - by far the best I've stayed at. There was a really nice communal area with lots of paintings (they had two resident painters), rugs and couches, where the backpackers and staff sat around chatting, playing music and smoking.
We had five days in KL and had planned to go to Malacca for a day and see all kinds of things around KL, but in the end lazing around and doing one or two things each day and skipping Malacca seemed a much better option. So we saw Merdeka Square where Malaysian independence was announced in 1957; the Petronas Twin Towers, now the tallest buildings in the world, and went up to the viewing deck, which was disappointingly only about a third of the way up; spent many hours in and only saw part of Petrosains, which is a lot like Questacon in Canberra or the Science Centre in Brisbane but really, really massive; visited the National Mosque and a wonderful Islamic Art Museum; went to the Batu Caves and saw the monkeys (monkeys!!); went to the Wesak (Buddha's birthday) festival at a Buddhist temple; and went to lots of markets, or at least a couple of markets lots of times, where Vaughn bought a drum from Sarawak and I bought one of those Indian patchwork wall hangings (and, yes, various other things too - when's the next time we'll be somewhere the Aussie dollar compares favourably?).
The more time we spent in KL the more we liked it. Probably not enough that I really wanted to spend the extra 2.5 hours sitting in the broken plane looking at the airport, but since they fixed the plane before we left and we didn't plummet to the ground midflight it all worked out ok.
We spent last week in Kuala Lumpur, sightseeing, sweating and shopping. Vaughn might try to tell you that most of the time was spent with me shopping, but you should ask him about his drum. And t shirts. And CDs. And the many, many bags we looked at. For him. And of course I did my little bit to help the Malaysian economy :)
We arrived in KL after an early flight from Kuala Terengganu where we spent a night after our time at the Perhentians, and were met at the train station by one of the guys from the hostel we had decided to stay at. He was there touting for business (for the hostel), and since we'd already decided we wanted to stay there it seemed a fortuitous start. The hostel was awesome - by far the best I've stayed at. There was a really nice communal area with lots of paintings (they had two resident painters), rugs and couches, where the backpackers and staff sat around chatting, playing music and smoking.
We had five days in KL and had planned to go to Malacca for a day and see all kinds of things around KL, but in the end lazing around and doing one or two things each day and skipping Malacca seemed a much better option. So we saw Merdeka Square where Malaysian independence was announced in 1957; the Petronas Twin Towers, now the tallest buildings in the world, and went up to the viewing deck, which was disappointingly only about a third of the way up; spent many hours in and only saw part of Petrosains, which is a lot like Questacon in Canberra or the Science Centre in Brisbane but really, really massive; visited the National Mosque and a wonderful Islamic Art Museum; went to the Batu Caves and saw the monkeys (monkeys!!); went to the Wesak (Buddha's birthday) festival at a Buddhist temple; and went to lots of markets, or at least a couple of markets lots of times, where Vaughn bought a drum from Sarawak and I bought one of those Indian patchwork wall hangings (and, yes, various other things too - when's the next time we'll be somewhere the Aussie dollar compares favourably?).
The more time we spent in KL the more we liked it. Probably not enough that I really wanted to spend the extra 2.5 hours sitting in the broken plane looking at the airport, but since they fixed the plane before we left and we didn't plummet to the ground midflight it all worked out ok.
posted by Margie at 2:46 pm
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Hey Hey!
Sounds like you're having fun and about to start the grand adventure of living in London. I hope you find jobs and accomodation to your liking.
Dave and I are well, spent last weekend up at sharkbay visiting the dolphins at monkey mia and the stromatolites at hamelin pool. Clear sunny blue skys and crystal waters...mmm... we're having problems with our voip phone but I'll try to msg you on skype.
take care and have fun, love chantelle
ps our blog page is sadly neglected but has some pics...
Well, I'm feeling pretty jealous right now, except for the sitting in a broken plane bit. My parents plane was 3 hours late the other day because that's how long it took the engineers to change the lightbulb in the toilet....
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