Kuala Lumpur... Day 35-37

Our bus to KL left at 10 so we got up early for a look at the tea planatations,unfortunately as it was Monday the factory was closed but we saw the fields and fields of tea and that was enough for us.
We got the bus which took the usual 6 hours because it stopped every 10 mins for a break!Anyway we got there late afternoon and after a monorail and train stop we found a nice little hotel and booked in for 3 nights.The weather was gorgeous when we arrived but after dumping our bags and getting changed for dinner it was absolutely pissing it when we went to leave the hotel. That evening was spent strolling round the city and finding a Chinese place for dinner.
The first day in KL we decided to hit the Chinatown and Little India areas.Firstly we headed to a huge electronics superstore were all the shops sold the same things but at different prices.Roisin was up to something as she asked for time alone to go inside the shopping centre.I just sat there wondering wot was going on.Anyway after a 45 minutes she came back and we headed to the Chow Kit area of the city. This area is famous for markets and the first market we saw was brill.It was a fish,meat and vegetables market.There was such a great atmosphere in there.They were slicing and dicing huge junks of meat while the fish were still hopping around in their baskets.Also I had my liverpool xavi alonso shirt on and all you could hear as I walked through the market was calls of ALONSO/LIVERPOOL/GERRARD! It was great fun.We continued our walk through the city to Merdeka Square a huge open area with the Malaysian flag standing tall in the centre.Its the worlds largest flag pole apparently (wot about the Spire?). After that we headed to the Covered Market. Now that was a market. Clothes/Souvenirs/Games and of course Pirate DVD'S.Now we had already bought a rake of movies and tv series in Bangkok and HongKong but we decided a few more wont hurt.Luckily enough we stumbled across a guy who told us all about the pirate dvd industry. How they were made and the differences in qualities in the different countries. He told us all the the dvd stands work togther and carry walky talkies and that if one of them spots the police they all call each other and leg it. He had a store selling regular dvd's so all he had to do was put the pirate ones away.Anyway we bought a couple more off him and he advised us to check the ones we had bought before. That night we went back to the electronics store as Roisin had to be back there at 8 o'clock for some reason. She headed up leaving me in a bar downstairs. About an hour and a half and 4 large Tiger beers later she came back. I was a bit pissed as you can imagine. She had a couple of bags in her hand.Very exciting stuff.She was gonna wait till the next day (Valentines Day) to give it to me but I convinced her otherwise. I opened up the bag and Wah Yah it was a PSP (Portable Playstation for the none techno heads). It was cool to have one as I always wanted one.Now I can play that instead having to sit through all the knobs singing You Raise Me Up on the X-Factor.
The next morning was an early start to get up to the Petronas Towers to manage to be one of the lucky 900 to get tickets for the Sky bridge. We managed it but we didn't need to be there as early as we where,the queue was the usual Malaysian mess. So after checking all our Dvd's on the hotels dvd player-(only 3 out of like 13 we needed to replace).
We got to the Petronas Towers and it was worth all the queing and messing around earlier on. Stunning views and it was so cool to be a building like that.Got some great photos and walked across the skybridge.We also got some great ones from the outside.It's just a colossol building which towers above the KL Skyline.After that we got the dvd's we wanted from our DVD friend!
Now today was Valentines day and we were gonna go for a nice meal but I bought a good bottle of wine (Impossible to find in Asia) and we just drank it in our hotel room.It'll be a shame to leave KL as we thought it was a great city full of life and variety. With Singapore to come though we can't really complain.

Team Domro