Butterfly & Bird Parks

A lazy start this morning, everyone woke around 10am but we didn’t get out till after noon!!

We grabbed some brunch at a hawker dining alley way Tony found yesterday. A plate of vegetarian food, chicken meat dish & prawn noodles cost a total of 25 ringits (approx £5). A bargain as Tony says!

We grabbed a cab to the butterfly park (which is the world’s largest butterfly park). The driver had no idea where it was and dropped us off somewhere unhelpful. After a bit of hunting around we located it, Rebecca loved the place and was so besotted with all the different butterflies.  Rebecca was wondering around whispering and pointing out the butterflies. I found the place so hot & humid (dreading our trip to the rain forest if I can’t even cope with a butterfly park).

   

 

We decided to go to the bird park afterwards and was told it was 30 minutes walk away. We got a cab which the drivers refused to go on meter and charged us 6 ringits for a minute drive. It was about a 10 minute walk. So we got conned considering it only cost us 10 ringits from our hotel. 

 

  

  

 The bird park was a large open aviary which you could walk through. There lots of birds you could get up close to including parrots, herons, owls and we even got attached by a pelican who was defending its territory. Rebecca fell over then it went for the buggy!! Finally Tony managed to shoo it off.

The taxis seem to be on the ball to rip off the tourist so we made our way out of the park area on foot and grabbed a taxi out in the main roads and on meter!

Later that evening we headed out to the world’s 8th largest shopping mall (Times Exchange) on the monorail to mooch around and was curious to check out their door theme park which had a roller coaster ride inside. 

As it was a last night in KL, we decided to check out the live music in the song kit lounge in the hotel lobby. The singers were covering old 80’s & 90’s songs which was pretty good.

However our drinks bill came back a few ringits too much and Tony being Tony was curious to find out why the price differed from the menu. Turns out the staff have no idea and managed to get a small discount off our bill.