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| The Batu Caves |
Howdy everyone! I'm getting sick and tired of studying for my Chinese I final so I'm going to take a break and update this badboy. Its been a while since the last one! I've unfortunately just been doing school stuff, I guess thats alright though because that is the real reason I came here. So yeah, this past weekend Brett and I decided to take a quick little trip to see the capitol of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. We got on a bus at 11:30 pm and drove for 5 hours (filling up the tank with about 3 hours of sleep to run on for the day) to the capitol. Amazingly enough nothing was really happening in downtown KL at 4:30 am, who knew? The bus dropped us off at a huge mall called 'Times Square'; unfortunately it was closed in the wee hours of the morning. We explored for about 10 minutes before we realized that we were hungry and had no Malaysian money...and all of the exchangers were closed for another 5 hours! So we had a quick breakfast of a granola bar and a handful of peanuts, it got us through the next couple hours :) From the mall we took a taxi (that happily accepted our Singapore money) to the Batu Caves, a huge cave that appears to rise out of the ground from nowhere. As we waited for the cave to open/the sun to rise a random local man approached us and gave us the lowdown on the cave, people, and ceremony. He also told us that there was a train just a short walk away so we could save money by taking that versus the taxi. AND at that point we still had no Malaysian currency but this guy was nice enough to exchange money with us! It was a huge help, we wouldn't have gotten much farther without him. If you're reading this mister, THANK YOU! After our encounter with the good samaritan we took a short hike up the 272 steps to the top and saw a bunch of people preparing for that morning's ceremony. It was a really neat area, the cave was ginormous! Once we had snapped a couple quality pictures we headed toward the train and took it back downtown in the direction of the KL Tower. In one of the train stations we stopped for a highly nutritious McDonald's breakfast consisting of a sausage/egg/cheese McMuffin, hashbrowns and coffee. Note to self: Never allow Brett to drink coffee again. Crazyness is sure to ensue :) (I can already tell you that he's not going to like that comment haha)
Following our much-needed breakfast we went to the KL Tower and got to go up to the observation deck, providing us with a great view of the city and the Petronas Towers. Once we completed our handheld video player tour of KL we took the elevator back down to the ground and began our walk to the Petronas Towers. Once we got there Brett was telling me that people come to the Towers at 6 am to get a ticket to take a tour of the bridge connecting the two Towers, but sometimes people don't show up to go on the tour and it is occasionally possible to take their spots. Now I don't know how lucky you have to be to find a cancellation, but we felt like a million bucks when the guy told us that he had two spots left just for us! It was great :) The view was awesome, and I'm really glad that lady luck was on our side that day. We took some great pictures, took a taxi back to the mall (it was raining, we aren't that lazy I promise) and wandered around for a while until our bus was ready to leave. We were feeling pretty good about ourselves considering we just hit all of the major spots in KL in a mere 12 hours. It was a quick, efficient, and highly enjoyable trip that I will remember for a long time. To see all of the KL photos, click
here.
