Sunday 27th January 2008

The alarm went off earlier than we needed it to today, but we weren't taking any chances - we had a bus to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to catch! We left our hostel and before long we were up at the Golden City Complex waiting for our coach. After changing what little Singapore money we had left into Malaysian Ringetts we got on board. We'd only booked the standard coach, but it was quite luxurious actually with nice big comfy seats - it was a most pleasant journey indeed! It was quite funny passing through customs and across the border into Malaysia - there was nobody about - there was no fuss at all - not like an airport.

When we rolled into Kuala Lumpur, the first thing that struck us was how crowded it was - it was packed with cars and people. We managed to flag down a taxi and came straight back to our hostel - Pujannga Guesthouse. When we'd dumped our bags in our room we went straight out to explore. The guys on reception gave us a useless map, which we could make no sense of, and so we headed for the only thing we could see over the Kuala Lumpur skyline - the KLM Sky Tower.

We've been up a couple of sky towers on this trip and this was definitely the best value for money. All the others cost about £20 to go up to the Observation Desk, whereas this one only cost RM20... about £3 - plus the view was brilliant. We imagined Kuala Lumpur was just a big city but it was actually surrounded by hills, mountains and green national parks. When we'd finished up the KLM Tower we walked into town and shared a Subway sandwich, but then Nikki started to feel a little bit funny so we walked back to the hostel to relax.

Tonight we did a Skype call with Mum and Keith, which was nice because it was our first for a while - so we got to catch up on the gossip from home, as well as fill them in on our stories. They seem to be getting quite excited now... they fly out to Vietnam in just under 5 weeks - yippee!

Moooorning Malaysia!