27th November

After a late night we both slept in to 12:30. Waking up pretty late during the day we decided to spend half of day in the government precinct called Petra Jaya. We had low expectations because the whole area is dedicated to the government. We caught public transport there and took roughly an hour on the train. At the time it was roughly 4ish. Arriving there we did not have a clue what we were doing and what we wanted to see. We asked the bus driver of the first bus that pulled up that we wanted to go into the main touristy area and he was quite confused. He told us to wait there and he went to get a map. We pointed at a random land mark and said here. Fortunately the bus driver said the 2 girls that got on before wanted to go to the similar area and told us to get off when they did. We went through the outer suburbs where all the government workers lived. Being a muslim government all the women wore vales and men wore long pants. We were quite out of place in our tshirt, shorts and thongs. The bus driver told us to get off and Kate and I as well as the girls got off. We were on the middle of a highway and was like where the hell are we. We asked the girls and they said if you go that way there are some really beautiful stuff. We didn’t know what exactly but we walked that way and came to a newly designed building. It was a botanic garden. We hired bikes there and rode around. It was very beautiful. There were different sections of plants for different sections of the world. Returning our bikes bought drinks, soya bean and cendol, grossness. Next we walked walked and kept on walking. Up a hill to the palace and fancy hotel and their equivalent of the bell tower. Walked down the hill, started pouring, nice security guard let us stand in his shelter. Ran to the bus stop through squishy grass then decided that we were too hungry to last all the way home. We asked a lady where the nearest food place was. Went to the food court-got Indian food. Yum, yum, yum. Overlooked the water, bridges and the ginormous mosque (look at pics) Walked some more and more and more.When we decided it was time to go we walked away from the waters edge and up toward the main buildings. Stupid maarble floors sooo slippery. (btws its pouring again) Couldn’t find the bus stop, just flagged down any bus that passed, then we got directions to go to the other side of the road. Just sitting there in the open soaking wet waiting for a bus. When the bus finally came we were the only two on it. The bus driving got talking and wanted an Australian dollar to add to his collecting. We didn’t have any so we took his address and plan to send him one in the mail ( as if that will ever happen). Then we bussed it back to kl central on a freezing bus and caught the monorail home. Good night…