Kuala Lumpur
A few weeks ago, the three of us (Carly, Jeffery and I) headed to Kuala Lumpur for a weekend getaway. It's about a 5 hour bus ride from Singapore to Malaysia's capital, so we did it in style and took a first class coach. The main reason for going was that we needed to get Jeffery out of the country to get his Visa renewed since he was going to be staying with us a bit longer.
We got to KL around midnight and finally found a cabby who was willing to turn on his meter, and he took us to the hostel we were staying at. It was a cool little place called Red Palm with friendly staff, and comfy beds. What I would probably call "The Uber Laid Back".
Across the street there was a place famous for beef noodles, and next door, Jeffery and I managed to enjoy some wicked awesome banana roti prata.
On Saturday during the day we headed over to the Petronas Twin Towers which I have to say, were unreal. At 452 meters, they are the 2nd tallest buildings in the world, next to the Taipei 101 in Taiwan.
Most of the rest of our Saturday was spent meandering around the city until we found some wicked-awesome Iranian food for dinner, and then headed off to Zouk for a night of tunes, beverages and dancing. Markus Schulz was there from the US that night, the music was great.
On Sunday, we attempted to walk to the old KL train station, but ended up walking half way across the city in the wrong direction. Not a bad experience, just bad directions. Eventually we jumped in a cab and made it to the station, and following that we spent a couple of hours in the Islamic Arts Museum.
Definitely a great place for a weekend getaway, yet another place in Asia where we can all say that one of the greatest highlights was the food.
