Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

We spent four nights in Kuala Lumpur, before I caught a flight back to Thailand where I am now. We stayed in Chinatown which was a good location for cheap dining especially (there was an amazing Indian canteen just down from our hostel!) and good transport links to KL Sentral which connected you to the rest of the city easily by monorail or light railway.

We got up early the first morning to queue for tickets for the Petronas Towers - they have pretty good availability but you just have to get there at about 8:30am. We managed to get tickets for that evening and it was definitely worth it. You first visit the Skybridge level, and then the higher observation deck. We managed to time our visit perfectly to see the sunset on the higher deck. The organisation and group sizes here are excellent and make for a great visit!

The Skybridge

Views from the top

The Petronas Towers... model and real life!

Another great place we visited in Kuala Lumpur is the Lake Gardens. It's a really beautiful garden and then has lots of animal parks, such as a huge bird park attached to it. The bird park was brilliant, with huge canopies and birds walking all around you.

The next day we visited the Batu Caves, which were just a short train journey from KL Sentral. It was a great sight to see, and there were a lot of steps to climb! It is a very popular Hindu shrine, with a huge statue of Lord Murugan (Matt was actually able to find this on the telescopes at the Petronas Towers the day before). There were plenty of monkeys at the bottom of the area to watch as well!

The rest of the time in Kuala Lumpur was spent exploring Chinatown and the area near the KL Tower. We also had a couple of fun nights out, and Kuala Lumpur had some great bars!

KL Tower

I caught an early flight on the last morning to Surat thani, Thailand, and the traveled by ferry over to Koh Samui!