Started off today at a sensible hour although Li wasn’t cheerful about it given being up half the night with William. His chicken pox is looking pretty bad now and I get the sense that people are starting to cross the street to avoid him, which given that’s where I’m walking as well, is quite annoying as they keep getting in the way!

Anyway back to our good start this morning and we head of slowly towards the aquarium but given the heat and humidity we stop on a regular basis to grab a drink plus a decent breakfast in one of the malls. It’s worth mentioning that KL claims to have some of the biggest shopping malls in Asia and to be honest you can see why, they are enormous and there’s more designer shops than you can ever want to visit in your lifetime

The aquarium was good, not sure why but it seemed to focus a lot on sharks and they do have some pretty big ones. The main feature on the aquarium was a 90m underwater tunnel that Rebecca loved, similar to the one that we found in NZ. She also seems to have found a strange fascination for Rays, which on reflection has been there for a while but we’ve never spotted it. Anyway, the Ray spotting over and following an extensive mince in the gift shop we head out for a wander round one of the main parks in the city

  
KL City Park, as it’s cunningly called, is quite lush and green but given the heat and regular rain it’s not surprising. The key thing it’s through this was our first really good view of the Petronas Twin Tower’s. Extending easy up into the skyline and dwarfing all the other buildings that to be honest, would normally be quite impressive in their own right

  
Rebecca however didn’t have any interest in these marvels of engineering and seemed much more interested in the fact the city park also contains one if biggest playgrounds that you have ever seen!

Lots of swings and climbing frames later, Li gets a sudden rush of blood to the head and we head inside the massive shopping mall that sits below the towers. A quick snack including a milkshake each to cool down followed by some sampling of some massage chairs, seems to do the trick, and we’re off to get some photos of the towers 

One cab ride later and we’re in the middle of KL’s China town, Jalan Petaling, being the main street that everything centres on. Renowned for fake goods we had high expectations of being harassed by everyone we encounter. Expectations were not misplaced, but they didn’t account for my expert negotiating skills with roots based upon a fundamental principle of  “not wanting their rubbish”. That being said Rebecca did leave with a Frozen bag, reduced from RM55 to RM15 (about £2.80) and Li got the first fake bag she’s ever had, which to be honest is such good quality 99% of people would never know, reduced from RM185 to a pricy RM70, about £13, bargain!

Dinner was a mixture of noodles and rice with a load of different meats all very nicely cooked, but the center piece had to be my own personal bbq on the table for some satay sticks.

  
Back to the hotel for, compared to recentlycan early night given it’ll be an early wake-up call to get tickets for the Petronas towers tomorrow