We finished off our time in Singapore with a great Chinese for Valentines Day. Sarah even managed to use chopsticks! The next morning we managed to find a bus to Johan Bator - the Malaysian border town very easily and from there were hit upon from all angles to get a bus to K.L. Travelling shouldn't be this easy!! Our bus was luxury too, huge big reclining seats, up there with the standards of South America, something tells me that we shouldn't be getting to used to transport like this!!

We got to KL late afternoon and found a hostel and got ourselves sorted before heading out on the monorail to a big communications tower that has a skydeck offering great views of the city and surrounding areas. The tower is actually called Menara Kuala Lumpur and is the fourth highest telecommunications tower in the world, so as you can imagine the views were superb (if not a bit hazy due to the smog!!). You could see all the major city sights and even some caves in a suburb called Batu 13km away, they are famous for a big pilgrimage here - there is a huge Golden Buddha outside the caves. There was also a great view of the Petronas Towers too.

We are staying just outside the Golden triangle area so we went down a street with loads of food stalls on both sides to have dinner - really good food and cheap too! With that we headed to bed - an early start this morning to queue for tickets to the Skybridge on the 41st floor of the Petronas Towers. These are the tallest twin towers in the world (and were the tallest skyscrapers in the world until Taipei 101 opened in 2004). Nonetheless they are magnificent, big stainless steel and glass buildings reaching over 450m into the sky, definitely a sight to behold.

Whilst I'm on sights to behold a quick note for Grandad -you'd love the amount of Protons on the road out here. Because this is where they are made they are the most common car over here. Maybe you should've shipped the parts you needed over and the old girl would still be going!!

Anyway, this afternoon we headed over to Merdeka Square where Malaysia proclaimed it's independence in 1957. It is also the sight of a few Tudor-esque building,colonial and also some Islamic architecture. It shows the architectural legacies of former conquerors very well. One of the buildings used to be frequented by expat English gentry. There is a big green in the middle of the square where cricket used to (and still is i think) played. When we were there though it was a hub of activity, people were even setting up tug-of-war ropes so Sarah was suitably impressed, it's a shame that we didn't get to see what was going on, although a big cycle race (like the Malaysian version of the Tour de France) finishes there tomorrow - I'm guessing that may be it! A short but sweet visit to Malaysia's capital but well worth it.

We have booked a trip to the relatively remote rain forest in Taman Negra tomorrow which should be great, hopefully we'll see some wildlife. It's dinnertime now - back to that street for some great local food.

Keep in touch all. Lots of love. A & S xxx