Day 93
We're all proactive this morning and go have a swim before breakfast. It's a weird pool as it's literally as big as the floor plan of the building so you can't really walk around it but it's cool and big enough to swim in. Ben pretends to be a water horse for a bit (see picture below) but doesn't work that well and we just splash water everywhere. Breakfast is noodles and tofu which fills me up and gives us the brain power to finally work out what we are going to be doing for the next few weeks...Borneo!!
We are going to arrive in Kuala Lumpar, stay for a few days then grab a flight to Sandakan to explore the Malaysian side of Borneo island, we can't wait! Our flight to KL isn't till late this afternoon but airports aren't too bad places to wait and we grab a tuk tuk and make our way through the chaotic city of Phnom Penh. It feels strange leaving Cambodia, it's been a place of really horrible times but also down right beautiful ones.
In the airport, we get collared by a over friendly South African lady who really chatty but a tiny bit overwhelming. We though we lost her when we check in but she appears next to us and I'm glad it's only an hour wait till take off. It's our first flight with Air Asia and despite the roughest take off I've ever experienced, I'm impressed. They are quick, friendly and they play Taylor Swift whilst you wait to take off, it's brilliant.
Kuala Lumpur Airport is very flash, it has a huge mall attached and every type of food outlet you can imagine and if we didn't have a bus to catch to the city I could have spent hours exploring it. The bus takes an hour and drops us off at KL Sentral station where we get a monorail to Tittiwangsa (cue giggles from you) where our hostel is. We forgot to mention our late check in to the guy (it's 10.30pm now) and we have a nervous 5 minutes ringing the bell and contemplating sleeping in the hall but he wakes and shows us to our basic room but it's cool and clean and only £10.
Day 94
We were going to have a lie in but get woken up at 7am by a noise at the window, I gingerly pull back the curtains to find a bright green and orange bird tapping the window! So cool. We've heard a rumour there's a rainforest in the centre of the city so our first port of call after breakfast.
It's only a couple of stops on the monorail and we arrive in a very thick forest, apparently with a few monkeys inside. Now we made a silly error here and forgot to put on insect repellent, if you ever want to explore the KL forest remember it as I managed to get nibbled alive in the short few hours we explored here. You're all right when you're walking, it's standing still for any amount of time, I swear there was about 10-15 Mosquitos on me at any one time.
Sadly we don't spot any monkeys but we do find a cool sky walk and get some good snaps. It's so frigging hot though and it's not long before we have to make our way to somewhere cooler and Ben has to change his t-shirt. We walk towards the Petronas towers, the tallest building in KL and something to have see for miles around and slip in to a very expensive but air conned mall and wander around cooling down and looking at things we can't afford. We've got a challenge on for who can buy the cheapest outfit for my birthday in Langkawi but we aren't going to find anything here. We are also getting hungry.
I forgot to bring a map out with me so we wander aimlessly for a little while before I spot a metro and realise we are near a good place that Ben's brother Tom recommended. He said look for a red door and we spot a red escalator and give it a go. Oh it was amazing, we grab some sushi which was so scrummy and got some food to make in the hostel for the next few days. We spend the rest of the afternoon window shopping, I want to buy it all the dress and Ben falls in love with a car. We treat ourselves to milkshake in this cool 50's style diner where the whole staff say hi to you when you walk in and they dance every so often. We get back just in time before the heavens open and spend the evening watching films.
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