Malaysia Update!

Day 73        Kuala Lumpur

This morning Jem, Steve and I had decided that we were going to get KLbus tickets and see the city. We left at about 11am and had breakfast at Starbucks. We then headed to Chinatown which was the nearest bus stop. The KLbus basically is an open top tourist bus. There is a circular route around KL with 21 stops, each outside a major attraction. The buses come every 30 minutes and you 'hop-on, hop-off'. The night before Steve, Jem and I had planned where we wanted to get off and what to see. We had about 7 stops to get off at. However, the first bus we waited an hour for which wasn't nice and then there weren't any seats. Luckily our first stop wasn't very far. We got off a couple of times to see things and then we saw the Mosque and the biggest open bird place thing in the world and the national observatory. What was a bit annoying is that at each number they listed the attractions and this is where we wanted to see some monuments and Parliament buildings but we walked for about 30 mins and they were no where to be seen which was annoying. Oh and it started to rain incredibly!! The worst rain I've ever seen! It was literally like flowing water overhead. There was no point trying to keep dry with an umbrella or anything, we were drowned. The streets flooded in minutes (they then drained away within minutes)! However, after this we decided that we'd stay on the bus as a sightseeing tour (it's a narrated drive), if you stay on for the whole loop it's 3 hours so we stayed on and saw all the sights from the dryness of our bus! We got off at another stop near the end - the chocolate factory stop - where chocoholics Jem and I bought a load of coconut choccies which we've become addicted to. We then got back on and decided we'd get off again at the big mall we went to the day before. We found TGI Friday's which was amaziiiing!!!!! We were there for hours! We had starters and mains which were absolutely amazing! And Steve got to watch his football! For starter I had these breadcrumbed cubes of macaroni cheese which were so good! Never seen anything like them but they were great! We then got back on the bus to complete the loop back to Chinatown. It was another really good day! BYE.x