Saturday, July 15, 2006
Fair well, Malaysia truly Asia!
Tomorrow morning I am leaving this splendid country that is the crossroads of Asia. The place where the Chinese, Islamic and Indian civilizations meet and live in peace. The place where everybody is multilingual, laid back, and friendly (hopefully I don't get robbed tomorrow on the way to the airport and have my view of this place changed!!!)
The last couple of days have been a whirlwind. Yesterday evening we went up the KL Tower. They weren't going to let us in because of the late hour, but I was able to talk our way in: "come on, I'm only here for a couple of days, and I came ALL THE WAY FROM CANADA to go up this tower!" It is amazing how obliging people were. Today, I pulled the same stunt at the Petronas Tower, because we were not there at 7 AM to get one of the LIMITED EDITION tickets. They decided to let us up at the end of the day, but finally we were finding the National Art Museum so interesting that we decided to stay there instead (Alana is very knowledgeable about art.)
Alana has been an excellent tour guide of a city that she arrived at twenty four hours before me! She took me for a walking tour of the city and knew what all the buildings were.
Overall, there is not that much to do in KL, but it is worth visiting for a couple of days. I am sorry to be leaving Malaysia, but alas, I must go on to the 22nd country that I will have visited in my life: Cambodia.
The last couple of days have been a whirlwind. Yesterday evening we went up the KL Tower. They weren't going to let us in because of the late hour, but I was able to talk our way in: "come on, I'm only here for a couple of days, and I came ALL THE WAY FROM CANADA to go up this tower!" It is amazing how obliging people were. Today, I pulled the same stunt at the Petronas Tower, because we were not there at 7 AM to get one of the LIMITED EDITION tickets. They decided to let us up at the end of the day, but finally we were finding the National Art Museum so interesting that we decided to stay there instead (Alana is very knowledgeable about art.)
Alana has been an excellent tour guide of a city that she arrived at twenty four hours before me! She took me for a walking tour of the city and knew what all the buildings were.
Overall, there is not that much to do in KL, but it is worth visiting for a couple of days. I am sorry to be leaving Malaysia, but alas, I must go on to the 22nd country that I will have visited in my life: Cambodia.
