We will go from the top, we purchased tickets through the hostel for the bird park, caught a cab down with no idea what to expect. it was very close to the city, i think the cab fare was about 8RM, which in australian dollars is less then $3. We walked in to the entrance of the avery, and the place was huge, it is the biggest free-flight avery in the world. There were all sorts of birds, from peacocks and hornbills to macaws and even a couple Galahs. Jarrad and I wanders about for hours, took plenty of photos and even got a few shots holding some huge Macaws.
Once we'd exhausted ourself in the heat, we jumped into another cab and drove into KL city centre and once again, the traffic was ridiculous, and how we haven't seen any fatalities is beyond me these guys are insane (and Jarrad is adamant on hiring a scooter at some point in the trip). We visited the aquarium, it wasn't too bad, a good way to kill time and stay out of the heat. To be brutally honest with you, it wasn't the greatest aquarium I've been to, Melbourne's is a load better. BUT, in saying that, they had a fish foot spa. If you're not familiar, you put your feet into a pool full of little tiny fish, which come up and suck the dead skin off your feet, which is exfoliating and surprisingly relaxing. It took Jarrad five minutes to laugh so hard he knocked his iPhone 4 into the water..... somehow it survived and is working fine. But the spa was cool, air conditioned and very relaxing once you got used to the feeling of the fish going crazy over your feet.
From there we headed to the Petronas Twin towers, which are an incredible spectacle, they're the second talles structures in the world and are 88 storeys high. At the foot of them, there was a huge shopping complex. we wandered around them for about an hour and grabbed lunch, we had indian food. It seems the be the cheapest food here.
We arrived back at the hostel, met a lovely girl from Holland called Evelien. its great talk to other travellers who seek the same adventure as you do. She was at the end of her trip through Malaysia and Singapore and is heading home today. She, and another guy from our hostel joined Jarrad and i for a really nice sit down dinner at an Indian restaurant in Little India, the four of us had a serve of Naan Bread, a main, rice and a drink and the total bill came to 100 Ringgit, which is around $30-35AUD, i cant believe how cheap everything is here.
We visited the Night Markets on Petaling Street, wandered about, haggled with a stack of street vendors, Jarrad has it down, but i was a little timid, they all expert salesmen, they just have poor english skills. most of the stuff they're selling is rubbish, but we still found some cool stuff in there. I got approached by a guy to head into a tattoo parlour to get some work done, but i politely turned him down.
After buying a bottle of cheap vodka, we all returned to the Hostel, sat on the roof with Evelien and two blokes from Australia who had been living in remote Indonesia for a few months. we talked about our trips, where we'd been and what we'd seen and by the time we had been through that and got to know each other, we'd knocked off two bottles of vodka and i was time for bed.
Jumpa lagi.
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