We travelled quickly and easily to Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday and booked into the Number 8 Guest House in Bukit Bintang, a very nice lively area right next to the famous food street of Jalan Aloor. We both really liked the city, despite the heat and humidity. It is real Asia with a modern twist...a great monorail and modern transport system, some very high tech buildings but also lots of ramshackle areas and tradtional shop fronts, it hasn't been tarted up to the same extent as Singapore and please forgive me for sounding so wanky but it has grown in a more organic way.
We did loads of sight seeing- Petronas Towers, The KL Tower, China Town and Petaling Street, the old colonial area. There is probably great shopping here too but neither of us are shoppers so this passed us by. We took booked a trip to Kuala Selangor to see the fire flies and also got taken to the new Royal Palace, a Chinese temple as well as to feed some Silver Leaf monkeys.....this was great and despite the fact that they were rather smelly we both fell in love with the cute little creatures. The fireflies were also well worth the visit, the riverbanks glistened as if the Christmas lights had been left up. We went to see the Batu Caves, a holy Hindu site and temple and I felt some real pangs for India, especially as there was a great Indian restaurant and I have got Jerome hooked on naan bread and parotha. We even met up with Kristof the Austrian we met on Pulau Tioman and had a nice night with him yesterday...bizarrely the main bar area was celebrating St Patrick's Day Eve, complete with Guiness promotions and a very incongruous parade ( consisting of Malaysians playing brass instruments and waving wildly), we did not stay long here. Jerome's evening came to an abrupt end when he discovered what he thought were giant maggots in his beef noodles. Kristof and I did not help and the stall owners found it hilarious..( the offending articles were in fact stray noodles from another dish and to be fair to Jerome they did look a bit maggoty).
We moved on this morning to the Cameron Highlands, which as the name suggests are in the hills. We are in Tana Ratu and we have checked into the Father's Guest House, which is well run, clean and in a great location. We are chilling out this afternoona and plan to do a tour and some tea plantation stuff tomorrow.
Jerome continues to be a great travel companion, I'm getting some words in now...we are having a great laugh and he is very kind and thoughtful even when I don't deserve it. I only make fun of his accent once a day now and has learned to say lavender, complimentary, refinery and developing without causing me to fall off my chair laughing...this a measure of my cruelty because his English is far better than my French and he rarely makes fun of my butchering of his mother tongue.To make it up to him I have been tolerant of his sneezing fits, sore throat and headache today despite his refusal to take my constantly and regularly proffered paracetemol tablets. I could spend the rest of my trip travelling with him really, except that he has to go back to sea and he is only 32.
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We did loads of sight seeing- Petronas Towers, The KL Tower, China Town and Petaling Street, the old colonial area. There is probably great shopping here too but neither of us are shoppers so this passed us by. We took booked a trip to Kuala Selangor to see the fire flies and also got taken to the new Royal Palace, a Chinese temple as well as to feed some Silver Leaf monkeys.....this was great and despite the fact that they were rather smelly we both fell in love with the cute little creatures. The fireflies were also well worth the visit, the riverbanks glistened as if the Christmas lights had been left up. We went to see the Batu Caves, a holy Hindu site and temple and I felt some real pangs for India, especially as there was a great Indian restaurant and I have got Jerome hooked on naan bread and parotha. We even met up with Kristof the Austrian we met on Pulau Tioman and had a nice night with him yesterday...bizarrely the main bar area was celebrating St Patrick's Day Eve, complete with Guiness promotions and a very incongruous parade ( consisting of Malaysians playing brass instruments and waving wildly), we did not stay long here. Jerome's evening came to an abrupt end when he discovered what he thought were giant maggots in his beef noodles. Kristof and I did not help and the stall owners found it hilarious..( the offending articles were in fact stray noodles from another dish and to be fair to Jerome they did look a bit maggoty).
We moved on this morning to the Cameron Highlands, which as the name suggests are in the hills. We are in Tana Ratu and we have checked into the Father's Guest House, which is well run, clean and in a great location. We are chilling out this afternoona and plan to do a tour and some tea plantation stuff tomorrow.
Jerome continues to be a great travel companion, I'm getting some words in now...we are having a great laugh and he is very kind and thoughtful even when I don't deserve it. I only make fun of his accent once a day now and has learned to say lavender, complimentary, refinery and developing without causing me to fall off my chair laughing...this a measure of my cruelty because his English is far better than my French and he rarely makes fun of my butchering of his mother tongue.To make it up to him I have been tolerant of his sneezing fits, sore throat and headache today despite his refusal to take my constantly and regularly proffered paracetemol tablets. I could spend the rest of my trip travelling with him really, except that he has to go back to sea and he is only 32.
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