



Having the apartment for a week gave us a bit of space and time to relax. We still explored the city but also had a bit of down time.
We did the ‘hop on hop off’ bus tour route 3 times in the 24 hours. By the final time we realised that the tour was, necessarily, taking us round in circles at times, so the city wasn’t as big as we first thought and several of the sights were actually quite close together.
We probably had a bit of nature fatigue by this point, especially after our time in Borneo, so the Botanical Gardens, Butterfly Park and Bird Park didn’t have the same attraction as they might have done earlier in the trip. However we did go to see the indoor amusement park complete with rollercoaster!
KL is a typically SE Asian city. It had some stunning sights, new shopping malls and an obvious ambition to be western. From what we’ve seen on this trip the idea of a great city seems to be one that has a skyline to rival New York, and a plethora of Starbucks, McDonalds and KFCs. Often in trying to realise this ambition they overlook their own culture and their priorities in planning and building go awry.