KUALA LUMPUR

Arrived in Kuala Lumpur around 2pm and headed to Punjagga Homestay which had been recommended to us .... what a dump!!!!! Still, KL seems nice enough .... a very vibrant and cosmopolitan city with lots and lots of shopping malls (Emma even managed to find a Tiffany store in the first hour of arriving). It's so nice to be in a city which has excellent transport facilities and yet is so easy to walk around too. People seem to be as friendly here as they were in Melaka which is suprising given the fact that it is a city with 2.2 million inhabitants.

Took the opportunity to see a film or two as we were not keen to go back to the 'homestay' ..... we sawe The Bourne Ultimatum which was a bizarre experience as Emma had a 3year old girl jumping up and down on her seat next to her and I had a man who burped, farted, shook his leg and talked on the phone for the entire film! Ooooh, what was great though was the fact that instead on Nachos or sweets you can get a portion of mashed potato to take into the movie with you!

after two nights in the homestay we heaed out to a hotel in Chinatown ....... soooooooo much better ...... quite funky actually and in a more 'real' area of town than the Golden Triangle area where every 2nd person seems to be from one of the Package Tour hotels.