Livin' it up in Malaysia

August 1-3 Singapore to Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur, Batu Caves, Malacca, Muar

Since Malaysia was so close right across the border, figured we should take a weekend to drive up and look around the country. We had taken a train and local buses through Malaysia to get to Tioman Is. earlier in the month so we already sight-saw the Malaysian countrysides, but we didn't know what city life in Malaysia was like. The place to go: the capital city of course, Kuala Lumpur! (the name always reminds me of a lumpy koala bear)

The Petronas Towers in KL are the tallest twin buildings in the world, and used to be the tallest building before Taipei 101. Tickets to go up to the observatory tower sell out for the day at like 8am, so we paid a tour agency to stand in line for us >.< We drove to Batu Caves the next day, amazing gigantic limestone formations and the largest gold statue in the world (something like that). The climb from the bottom to top of caves was ~272 steps, gah hot hot sun! Lots and lots of monkeys running around - ick I've heard bad stories of wild monkeys assaulting humans and stealing food o.O packs of chattering monkeys are scary scary! >.<



Then we drove to Malacca, which is a quaint historic town famous for its old British settlements and churches. It has a great long street full of small shops and street vendors, at night it transforms into a even more lively nightmarket. We just spent hours walking along, stuffing ourselves full of everything and anything that catches our eye, and browsing cute little trinkets and such. I don't remember, I bought lots of random cute stuff that I don't know what I'm going to use for when if ever. Plus along the way home back to Singapore we stopped by a rambutan planatation, oh my.




A few more pictures >> Facebook album

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