Next stop was the national mosque. This was a modern building so not so pretty as other mosques I've been to. As heathen women we had to be robed up, headscarf and all. I like to think I totally rocked it.
The most interesting thing were the Islam information pamphlets. The anti Jesus one was pretty interesting but the sex in Islam was the most enlightening! After drowning in sweat and polyester we had a look at the old English area of KL. The daily 3pm downpour started and we rushed into the KL art gallery where we learned about the beginnings of the city, "the muddy estuary" where two rivers joined and then saw an amazing light show over miniature KL city. It was amazing!
We huddled back into the mini van with the help of a giant sun umbrella to keep us dry! Then we headed to the Batu caves. It was chucking it down so much in order to avoid a soaking when walking the steps up to the cave we stopped off at an Indian restaurant. It was amazing. We had roti canai which is a typical dish here. It's like bready pancakes served with curry sauce on the side. But these sides was literally a bucket of curry. I wished I'd taken a photo!!! It was delicious and all four giant containers of curry were delicious. The rain stopped and we went to venture into the caves. These are a branch of Hindu worshiping place. It was a long climb up and there were loads of monkeys! When we got inside it was not so interesting, except how the Indians had even set up stalls selling tat inside too!
This was our final stop before heading back into town. We were meeting the rest of our group at the Petronas Twin Towers to have drinks in a sky bar. It was one of our groups birthday so we were making a night if it.
We got changed and went to the sky bar on the 33rd floor of a hotel opposite the twin towers. It was ladies night, so free cocktails, yay!!! The view was great and there was a pool in the bar!!
5 cocktails later we moved onto the next bar and had an amazing drunken evening. Dancing on tables, cake fights, karaoke and more roti on the way home! Ha. Much hangover shame to be had.
The next day I forced myself out of bed to go on a city walk. It was really hard work! But we were all feeling worse for wear. First stop was another bloody mosque. More gowns. I had to leave early as the guy showing us around just went on for ages! I was dripping and so had to do and sit down! Next stop was the old English part again. It was centres around a cricket ground and there was a club house which looked so English! This is the first part of all the places that our guide are English, that actually looked like England. There were loads of old buildings around it and we all posed in front of the I love KL sign.
We headed next to the central market which was a market set up in 1880. Selling more of the usual tat. But we stopped for lunch which was a good rescuer! Next up was Chinatown and the final stop was a cafe which would create animals out of milk foam on the top of your coffee! Amazing! So Chinese! I got a Chinese cat on my amazing macchiato.
We ended the tour and went back and had another wander around the market and then went to the National Textile Museum. It was pretty good and I learned a lot about the fabric and especially the iban fabric which has warp yarns wrapped in raffia before dying to create a resist pattern. So unnecessary complicated! I was the only one in the museum for most of the time! I took a little joy ride on the sky train too to have a look at the city. Such a geek! In the evening I got some knock off makeup in Chinatown. Should have haggled harder as found it cheaper on another stall. Dammit! Always the way! I heart KL!
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