Day 156 (Sun 10 Dec) - Kuala Lumpur
After we'd torn ourselves out of our amazing bed we decided we'd spend the day exploring Kuala Lumpur.
Set off down Jalan Sultan Ismail towards Bukit Bintang, wandering through a shopping mall as we went. It was novel to be able to walk around without having to worry about being run over or having to dodge a cow pats - and there were pavements too!!
Walked into Chinatown. Bit like the one in London but four times bigger and it has a large market down the middle selling clothes, knocked off CDs/DVDs and electrical goods. We passed a pet shop and couldn't help popping inside. Were greeted with the cutest puppies in the world. We were sold - it was all we could do not to buy them all.
Had a very tasty lunch at a busy place overflowing with locals. Walked to the Central market and then to Dataran Merdeka, also known as Independence Square. This was where the union jack was lowered on 31 August 1957 marking the end of the British era (bit of history for those who are interested!!) ( [1], [2], [3] ).
Tried to find the Indian area but couldn't so headed towards Asia Heritage Row which boasts lots of posh restaurants and bars. Dived into the Atrium bar and ordered a couple of cocktails. As we were enjoying our cocktails it started to rain..... and wow did it rain. We weren't going anywhere in that downpour so we were forced to have a few more drinks whilst we waited for it to ease off. Well it didn't ease off so we ended up getting a taxi to the Petronas towers shopping centre and went to try to but some waterproofs. No luck, obviously no one else had realised it was raining outside.
Later when it finally eased off we went back to Finnegan's (Irish Pub).
Unfortunately we were too stuffed from lunch to have a meat pie so instead plumped for a massive pizza.
Set off down Jalan Sultan Ismail towards Bukit Bintang, wandering through a shopping mall as we went. It was novel to be able to walk around without having to worry about being run over or having to dodge a cow pats - and there were pavements too!!
Walked into Chinatown. Bit like the one in London but four times bigger and it has a large market down the middle selling clothes, knocked off CDs/DVDs and electrical goods. We passed a pet shop and couldn't help popping inside. Were greeted with the cutest puppies in the world. We were sold - it was all we could do not to buy them all.
Had a very tasty lunch at a busy place overflowing with locals. Walked to the Central market and then to Dataran Merdeka, also known as Independence Square. This was where the union jack was lowered on 31 August 1957 marking the end of the British era (bit of history for those who are interested!!) ( [1], [2], [3] ).
Tried to find the Indian area but couldn't so headed towards Asia Heritage Row which boasts lots of posh restaurants and bars. Dived into the Atrium bar and ordered a couple of cocktails. As we were enjoying our cocktails it started to rain..... and wow did it rain. We weren't going anywhere in that downpour so we were forced to have a few more drinks whilst we waited for it to ease off. Well it didn't ease off so we ended up getting a taxi to the Petronas towers shopping centre and went to try to but some waterproofs. No luck, obviously no one else had realised it was raining outside.
Later when it finally eased off we went back to Finnegan's (Irish Pub).
Unfortunately we were too stuffed from lunch to have a meat pie so instead plumped for a massive pizza.
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12/10/2006 12:03:00 pm
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