Leaving our little hotel and the red lights and pretty ladies of Singapore,we took a luxurious bus(we were fed and watered and the kids were more than chuffed with the onboard entertainment) to Kuala Lumpy. Here we spent a couple of nights, our base a windowless room with aircon and a tv which switched channels as and when the girl on reception changed hers. The kids found another cat to sit with. Cats are big out here, cats rule!
Next day we went to check out the sights.Lots of shopping centres, lots and lots of money, money, money...
...we visited the National Mosque where we peeled off our crocs and were handed mauve robes to wear. Once in place we were able to enter the main hall.
How I love a good mosque. No chanting this time though. Last time we got that was a week ago. God, was that real? 4am last Monday as we prepared to leave our hotel in Java to make for Singapore, that final call for prayer, this time with many voices, sounded like a bunch of witches sacrificing a baby. I mean it was scary. In contrast, one morning in Labuan Bajo, dunno what happened but instead of the chanting, Justin Bieber came over the shrieking towers... ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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...later we went up the Kuala Lumpar telecommunications tower, a mighty tall erect thing it is,with rotating helmet, a restaurant which we didn't make it into. Every couple of minutes there were people parachuting from way up here to the ground below.
You could see just about every shopping centre, skyscrapers with swimming pools on the roof, mosques galore and yet vast strokes of green and forestry alongside.It is some view.It is some tower.
On the ground was an animal freakshow with two headed turtle and hairless mouse being star attractions. In their tiny cages and tanks a stark contrast to the beauty laid on by Singapore zoo. As we boarded the free shuttle out of there, a young American supported by his buddy came hobbling on. They had done the parachute jump the day before and had jumped together, but on opening they had become tangled. As they hurtled towards the ground, death imminent, a tree luckily saved them both. One smashed his knee up, the other had a facial reshape courtesy of the lucky tree. As they relived the moment with us they high fived each other,"totally rad dude!"
Yesterday we embarked on a thirteen hour journey on a sleeper train. Currently hurtling to our deaths in a white knuckle suicide coach trip to Krabe, Thailand. See you on the other side then...
To be continued
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