Saying goodbye to the Philippine’s, our next destination was Malaysia, however we had an overnight stopover in Singapore airport. We decided this wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world, as we had heard stories of how luxurious Singapore airport is, and we wanted to experience it anyway. Across the many terminals, the airport has shops ranging from souvenir shops to high-end fashion. Luckily it also has a napping area, were we spent the night and I have to say, I’ve had worse sleeps!
In the morning we finally flew to a Kuala Lumpur. We were only staying here for a few days but immediately I have to say, it was a nice change to see the built up busy city, contrasting with our month in the Philippine’s. We were staying at Space Hostel, where we both had our own capsule, with a touch screen panel controlling the lights, air con, the TV, and the electronic sliding door. We spent the rest of the day looking round the market across the road, at the abundance of fake designer clothing.
In the morning we took a taxi to the Batu Caves. Unfortunately it chucked it down with rain, but we quickly walked up the multi colour steps to look inside. On the way back to the station we saw loads of monkeys roaming by the bottom of the stairs, luckily they didn’t get too close as I’ve heard they’re known to steal! We spent the rest of day in the KLCC centre, a shopping mall inside the twin towers. In the evening we went to Helibar, which is a cocktail bar situated on top of a skyscraper which by day is used as a helipad. It was nice to experience a bit of luxury, and awesome to see the Malaysian skyline in the daytime, and then as night came seeing it all lit up. Before going back to our space capsule we went back to the twin towers to take some pictures of them at night.
Our time in Malaysia was obviously short lived, but it was interesting to see and refreshing to see something different.
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