Kuala Lumpar - KL

On our free day in KL, our alarm went off at 7am because we were meeting up with Dan, Laura, Becci, Michael and Alex at 7.30am, to go to the Petronas Towers and get free tickets to go up them. The Lonely Planet guide says that tickets are only available at the towers until 9am so get there early - well, that is aload of crap, they were still giving out tickets when we went up the towers at 10.45am.

As our tickets were for 10.45am we decided to go for some brekkie and then wander around the excibition until it was time for us to go up.

Before we were allowed to go up to the sky bridge, we had to sit through a 15 minute Petronas company propaganda video (Petronas are great! - according to them).

The skybridge was good although we were only allowed to stay up there for 5 mins, but the visability was a bit pants due to the horrendous smog.

Me and Alan then had quite an unsuccessful afternoon trying to find the KL lakes, it was made more difficult by the blistering heat. We found out later that Laura and Dan didn't find them either which made us feel a little better - sort of!

We then went for a walk around the KL Tower gardens and even though I was wearing 20% DEET, I got bit again and again and again. I felt like an all you can eat buffet for mozzies!

We went up the KL Tower to watch the sunset, which is an absolute joke because the visability is very very poor. We could barely see more than a few miles because the smog is that thick. Seeing the Petronas Towers all lit up from the tower was pretty spectacular though.