Leaving Paris at noon and arriving into Kuala Lampur just as the dawn was breaking into the misty, humid air didn't really create the mood for sight seeing so much as sleeping.
Of which we did plenty of in our three night stay in the city.
It was the perfect way to break up the hellishly long journey home, and get just a taste for this new oriental culture. In our brief time here we shopped, ate new foods, rode on elephants, explored a huge hindu cave and rode on Asia's longest tram lift. It was all pretty thrilling. The volume of the huge shopping centers, and the timeless sights of a hindu temple. To have bats fluttering around your head and monkeys snatching food from your hand is pretty amazing. To ride through the rain forest just above the tops of the trees and up into the cool mountain air is refreshing. But to visit an elephant sanctuary and meet up close and personal these displaced mammals was certainly my highlight. Even riding through the river with them. And these big guys smiled away when the kids came up to wash them in the river. They were happy to be saved and loved, and, like most mammals, have a purpose to their life.
I'm sure I could write up many a good story but I will leave you with just a few photo's of the time here. And Asia will have to be one of the places that we return to and do a large exploratory journey into.
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| Hindu bat cave temple |
A photo says a thousand words: So what do you think we thought of Malaysia?
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| it's crawling with monkeys |
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| Riding on Elephants at the Elephant sanctuary |
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| Liana rides one of the elephants in the river! |
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| Jungle river swim |
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| Not sure what's in the soup, but YUM |
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| up, up, up across the dense rain forest |
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| Sleeping beauties! |
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| Night view of the petronas towers from our hotel window |
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| Liam checks out the flash train from KL to the airport. Sweet ride! |
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| Just a sample of the souvenirs and things we picked up along the way! No wonder I couldn't enforce my four bag rule! |
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