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funny |
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - January
29
Clear, hot, 32 degrees
Today’s port is about a 90 minute
drive to Kuala Lumpur. It’s never ideal when the port is far from the main
city, but when it happens, there’s nothing to do but put up with a long drive –
it’s good napping time. Many tour options for today are 8 or 10 hour ordeals,
but because we’ve been to Kuala Lumpur before, we opt for a short 5 hour trip
in.
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crafty |
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new hobbby |
The first place we stop are the Batu
Caves. These are a series of huge soaring caves and Hindushrine cave temples.
This place is enormous with an equally huge gold Buddha. There are 275 steps to
the top which of course we had to climb – going up always seems like it’ll be
the hard part, but it is really coming down that is the challenge. Along the
way there are tons of little monkeys that we try successfully to stay away
from. Everywhere we go where there could be monkeys we are told to stay away
from them. I’m the last one to approach an unknown animal, so I don’t need this
warning. They turn out to be very bold, scampering all over the steps, eating
whatever anyone who thinks it is a good idea will feed them, but pretty much
stay away from you if you don’t offer food. At the top is where we can notice the
cave’s enormity – crazy big. Oh, and it is crazy hot here too. Thankfully when
we visit the steps are in the shade, but that doesn’t reduce the humidity. By
the time we are back down we are drenched.
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Batu Caves |
Another thing to be thankful for is
how great the AC on the busses has been this whole trip. No matter how drenched
we are it is only a matter of minutes back on the bus to feel comfortable
again.
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in love |
A visit to a pewter manufacturer is next
on our agenda. We see how the pewter is made and get to pound out a bowl of our
own to take home at The Royal Selangor 'School of Hard Knocks' - hilarious. I’m
not exactly into crafts, but that was a lot of fun. I think Chris has finally
found out what he’ll do in retirement!! We do a little shopping before we leave
– we were able to resist the many Star Wars items for sale – I guess the whole
world is Star Wars crazy.
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Petronas Towers |
Lastly we make a photo stop at
the Petronas Towers. It’s a good thing we were here before and were up close
and personal with the towers, because this time we stopped quite a distance
away. These used to be the world’s tallest building.
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does red go with ostrich?? |
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Enormity of the Batu Caves |
3 comments:
I too found those monkey's to be a wee bit too smart and creepy...they are so bold!
I would love to visit those caves some day! The monkeys would scare me though:)
Nice job on the bowls! There is some definite talent there.
How was the ostrich? Way to go on trying new things.
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