KUALA LUMPUR - SEATED!

The wall of heat nearly knocked us as we stepped off our air-conditioned super-deluxe bus on to the streets of Kuala Lumpur. Having sweated into our back-packs as we trundled around looking for a nice home, we eventually settled on 'Wheelers Guest-house' in the heart of Chinatown, one of our most atmospheric choices yet.



We then took a little wander outside to soak up some atmosphere. Chinatown in Kuala Lumpur has a bit of an edge to it. Tiny Chinese coffee houses sit nestled between stall after stall of colourful trainers and hoodies (if you're in search of some cheap knock-off products KL is the place to hit), and a considerable presence of some rather dubious female(?)characters always ready with a smile. Two pairs of fake Converse Allstars later, a red and blue pair for Les and a very dashing gold pair for Przem, we went in search of some veggie food, not an easy task in KL by any means. It took quite a while but we managed to track down a small family run restaurant where TV took precedence over pesky customers but the food was damn tasty. Definitely quite the local experience.



Next afternoon and we found ourselves washing our feet outside one of South East Asia's largest mosques. Inside was a cool peaceful retreat with huge latticed windows, hundreds of tall white columns, and water features all around, the only sound in the otherwise silent complex. Westerners wearing lilac robes, obtained outside the mosque, came in and out of view through the hall of pillars. We hung out for a while to enjoy our nice clean feet on the cool marble floors.





A visit to the Petronas Towers saw us up forty-one floors in forty seconds in the fastest elevator in the world(probably). The views from the bridge between the tallest twin towers in the world was rather incredible. Sky-scrapers spread for miles and millions of people rushed about like busy little ants at their business. How very nice not to be part of the work-force for a year, up the holidays!!!!





It has to be said that we didn't concern ourselves with seeing every sight in Kuala Lumpur. We opted instead to experience it from the comfort our seats. Sitting down is such an under-rated passtime and we thoroughly enjoyed our KL experience sat on our derierres.