KL

Its 6:30pm ish local time - and everythings just starting to come alive. As i write this we are at a hostel bang smak in the middle of Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur. We got here yesterday afternoon and its soo hot, humid, muggy, chaotic, dirty....but its all part of the experience. We were in a windowless room last night with Colin (the English guy we met in Melaka). It only had a fan!! Both Dave and I woke up in the middle of the night and i asked him what the time was. he replied with '9am', so we got up and had a shower. Not thinking why it was quiet (with know one awake) i went to have a look out the window of our hallway - it was pitch black!! we re-looked at the time and it was 3:30am - know wonder we were tired, and ready to make the full day of it. In hysterics, im not sure what Colin thougt of it all. turns out Dave can't read maps or the time.

We got up at about 9am, after having another kip, and decided to have a day of walking around the town. We went up the KL tower (not to be confused as the Petronas Twin Towers) which had a fantastic sight - KL is massive and so widespread. We visited a coule of malls (gota love that air con) and a mosque - the largest in Malaysia. Fascinating, everyone was sleeping. We visited Cental Market again and got our feet munched on by Cute Fish - who nip away at the dead skin. Boy did it tickle and Dave was in hysterics!!! Somewhere along the line i lost my USB drive which had all my hotos of home, friends, family, CV and back up of documents.....not a good day all round. And a tip for those soon-to-be travellers - get lotsa cash out at the big cities or when you have a chance - not all banks allow foreign cards. So another long day, but so much fun! Tomorrow we plan to head to the Batu Caves (check it out online) and then head up to the cameron highlands into the cool mountains.

Keep those emails coming guys....
Dane, David, DaveOE