Our last day!   Starting at 5:30am (really nasty) and after quickly loading the car we drove to KLIA.  Helpfully, we didn’t have any details for where to leave the car, and even once we spoke to the agents we still didn’t really have a clue, so I dropped the luggage of with Li and went on a bit of an adventure by myself!

Flight to HK wasn’t too bad, although I really wouldn’t want to do any more than the 4 hours using AirAsia, there leg room is just really poor and you can’t get any sleep at all.  That being said we arrived safe and then had a good mince around the airport changing clothes, etc.  After dumping all our stuff with Left Luggage, we headed out on a cunning bus I found to the cable car station to head to the big budda.

We choose to upgrade to a glass bottom cable car on the trip up, but, didn’t realise just how bad the weather was up the mountain.   The wind on the way up was strong enough that I’m surprised they hadn’t stopped the cable car running completely (they would have done so in a ski resort) and then we entered a very large and quite boring big cloud, so had almost zero visibility.  In general though, the cable car was still quite good and Rebecca loved the glass floor; Li, not so much!

At the top we grabbed some very expensive, quite poor quality food, and had a quick wander around.  Then headed up to the big Buddha, which, given it was in a large cloud you couldn’t actually see until until about 15 feet away.   Li didn’t bother making the climb up the steps, but Rebecca and I did, and she was really good doing it as well.

A few photos at the top were taken, back down from the Buddha, but given the cloud and the wind it wasn’t very pleasant; however, Rebecca has a new “thumbs up” pose that seems to want to do everywhere and took full advantage of this at the top!

Back down the cable car; we took the same cunning bus back to the airport and, for I think the first time ever, had enough time to get a decent dinner.  So, a very nice Pizza Express was the order of the day, in fact, shockingly good, much better than the UK.

On to the plane, few bottles of red and I managed to get some of the good Upper Class whisky, and we’re on the way back.

Landed 30 mins early, meaning that there were no staff to get our buggy, but once collected, along with the rest of the luggage, we jumped in our waiting car and headed home.

Long grass, big pile of letters, the place looks a mess…but has a decent shower and looking forward to a nice bed & plenty of home cooked food now.

Our very boring proposed drive back to KL is looking more interesting now that I’ve been told of an orangutan sanctuary along the way, so we get on the road around 10am and drive for the 90 minutes to get to the resort that has the sanctuary in it.

The sanctuary itself is actually an island in the middle of a very large lake. After getting our boat tickets, we’re off for the 15 minute journey to arrive on the shore of the island. It’s very hot, around 35 degrees again and humid once more, we’re all beginning to become a little tired of both now after 12 or so days!

The sanctuary houses 24 orangutans and the key interesting element is that we are in the cages, not the orangutans. We see a couple of big adults and then around 7 that are only a few years old and playing around. The rangers show their skills off by passing sticks and putting their food up high to get with the sticks. In general all good, but would have liked to have seen more of the bigger ones as well.

An hour later we’re back on the road after what can only be described as the worst meal we’ve had since being away; what is it with chefs adding MSG to everything!

Three more hours driving and we reach one of the things we missed from our first visit to KL, the Batu Caves.

Just outside, north, of the main KL area, the caves are a Hindu monastery with a massive statue at the bottom of a very long set of steep steps. Once climbed we entered the caves themselves and they are enormous!. We entered the first cave which is like an aircraft hanger and then up some more steps to the highest of the caves which, it turns out, has a large hole in the roof. I’m not sure what you’d call this as it’s more just a very large hole in the ground rather than a cave, formed by water by the looks of it, but whatever, it’s huge!

Back down the steps and the last 30 mins drive back into KL went nice and quick, and Li had sorted out a good location right in the center of KL for our last night, saying that though, it was already around 8pm so not much of the evening left really. The serviced apartment that we have isn’t bad and is cheap, but glad that we didn’t have this type of accommodation for the entire trip as it’s just a little bit basic.

Out for the evening with one goal in mind, to do the final missing item in KL, get a photo of the Petronas towers from the sky bar at the top of the traders hotel, the best view in KL.  So with this in mind, we obviously mince around the shopping malls first, then go and have dinner, a very under welming dinner at that. Still the view was nice in the main KL City Park as they have coloured fountains all moving and dancing to classical music, very clever and effective.

Onwards to the bar to get my photos and, not surprisingly they don’t let children in the late, so I just grab a couple of quick shots and we head off to the apartment once more.

Bed by 1am, with the alarm set for 5:30 to have time to get to the airport tomorrow morning.