25th November

Woke up early, set alarm for 7.30 am to get to the PETRONAS towers to get tickets. (bad idea? Maybe- wanted to sleep, ha ha) Had breakfast - consisted of white bread toast peanut butter and jam out of lunch boxes with black tea and coffee mate. Made way to the towers. Realised how badly we did circles last night. No need for public transport-just walk in the general direction of the towers. Found all the ‘tourist areas: in our expedition . PETRONAS (petroleum and gas) got there bout 9.10- first in first served. Lined up for roughly 30 minutes and got tickets for the 2:30 session. With that being the most important purpose of today we wanted to keep close to the area so we do not miss it. We decided to go to the local mall just beside it called the Isetan. We were starving by the this time and wanted to find a cheaper place to eat because the food in the area was too expensive. After walking around in a general direction for a while we found this curry house on the side of the street. When we entered we did not have a clue what we were doing as it was kind of self serve. The people there were quite helpful although their English was limited. We were given a plate of rice each and we were able to choose what we wanted with it from the trays. Most of the food was sea food and yucky but there was some beef so I got that. Kate was a little bit more confused about the food and the guy pointed to a dish saying chicken. Kate thinking it was chicken spooned the stuff from the dish beside it. We sat down to eat and realised that her ‘chicken’ was hairy and was not chicken at all. We thought it was tongue haha and totally put kate off her meal. While eating I could just think of all the germs and crap in the meal. When kate finished her rice we decided to go back to the area around the towers to kill 3 hours. To get to the area we decided to go through the convention centre. To our disappointment there was a food court inside with fairly cheap food. We walked through and came to a lovely park outside. Walking through the park we saw a kids playground and decided to walk towards it. Walking over the hill we saw a waterfall and when looked down, to our surprise it was a public puddle pool. Kate and I dashed down there as fast as we could. I went for a swim without a shirt and kate put her head under the water fall but didn’t swim because of her clothes. After about 10 minutes of wadding, a uniformed officer started blowing her whistle. I looked at her and around me to see what she was on about. I ignored it. She blow her whistle again. I looked at her and pointed to myself and she nodded. I approached her and she said I was too old to be swimming here, only 12 years and under. I was hell cut. She said I can put my feet in water if I wear a shirt. So I did and we stayed little longer.

With more time to kill we went to get coffee that ended up being super expensive at 24 RMB. Good thing was the guy made a mistake with the order so we got 3 coffees for price of 2. Then time past and we went to the twin towers. To begin the tour we were shown a video about the company “PETRONAS” who owned the building. Of course they had to be a oil company and they blabbered on about how they are so important in the community. Then after going through a security check point that was more security at the airport we went up the lift to the bridge. The view was great but was not 360. We took photos and admired the view for 10 min then had to go down again. We went food shopping and laughed at all the weird stuff they have. We bought crisps that tasted like KFC chicken. Yum yum yum. Then went for dinner at lot 10 shopping centre food court.

To finish the night we went looking for beer but was not happy about the pricing so walked around. We caught the mono rail back to bintang. Kate wanted to go get her feet eaten by fish so we did that. What an experience. There are these fish that peck at your feet and eat the skin. After 30 minutes your feet are nice and smooth. It tickled so much at the start and was just such a weird sensation. You get used to it after a while. For 20 RMB each I say it was worth it for the experience. Only in asia