The time flies by and since the flight is only short we are in Kuala Lumpur before we know it. Off to the taxi stand we go. We read in the Lonely Planet guide that it should cost about 70RM to get to the city centre but they try to charge us 180RM! No way we say, so they say 90RM and we say no way and start to walk off. Suddenly the price is 67RM so we agree to this and take a ticket, that’s more like it!

Arriving at the hotel I am really excited as it’s 5 star luxury here since it’s so cheap. After checking in I skip down the corridor to our room, open the door and … I’m home. This is more like it! It’s huge, modern and swanky with great furniture and a gorgeous bathroom. I don’t ever want to leave! I check out all the stuff we get in the bathroom, washing powder, combs, bathrobes, toothbrushes, free bottles of water etc, the list is endless. I want to stay but we decide to pop out for a bit and get some tea.

Stepping out of our hotel we marvel at the Petronas towers which rise up tall above us. Apparently the 4th tallest building in the world. We walk inside them and it’s a huge shopping complex, many stories high and since it’s Saturday it’s packed full of people. We stop by a book store since we have run out of things to read. The store is massive and we get lost in it and can’t find anything we want, then we see the Jack Kerouac books and decide on one of those, a modern classic.




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