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.