We checked out of our hotel in Penang at 10am that morning and started our walk to the bus station (where we got our tickets sorted the day before). The walk was only 15 mins but it was already so hot with a clear blue sky so we struggled enough with the bags! After this trip is over I am going to burn that thing! Yes it is helpful for getting stuff around but it is a nightmare to carry!

The bus we were in for our 5 hour journey to KL was probably the most comfortable bus we've been on! It had really comfy wide seats that fully reclined (foot rest included!) with a built in massager and DVDs playing during the trip! It was great! We got to watch 'Salt' - which we had both wanted to see, and just chilled out with our snacks. When we arrived in KL we were so excited looking around everywhere for the first glimpse of the high rise buildings and to see who could spot the Petronas towers first! I think it was a tie! Other people on the bus must have thought neither of us had seen buildings before!

We got dropped off quite far out from the city centre as the main bus station was under renovations, so we had to get a taxi to our hostel. The taxi driver was lovely, chatting away to us about the city and how bad the traffic gets in KL, we were lucky we got in town before the rush hour started!

Our hostel here is called 'back home hostel' and it seems like such a lovely little place. Very like the one in Bangkok, only not as big, but it's modern, very clean, has everything we need plus a great location - right between Little India and Chinatown, and 3 metro stops from the Petronas Towers! After checking in we headed out to explore and get some well needed food. Unfortunately the first few places we seen didn't look too clean, and we were starving, but then, lo and behold, we came across….a Burger King!! Now I know you're thinking that isn't a very good 'traveller' thing to do, but we were so hungry and just wanted decent (well more like comfort) food so we were past caring - plus its still cheap! After stuffing ourselves with amazing Chicken Royale meals, we headed off to the metro station and made our way to KLCC - where the Petronas towers are. The buildings were amazing to see in person, they are enormous!! We walked around here getting some night photos, with them all lit up, and then dandered into the shopping mall at the base of the towers. What a place this was!! All the designer shops you could ever want were here, plus tones more, we spent some time window shopping and depressing ourselves, before heading out the back of the towers to the park there. It was so pretty; they have a lake with water fountains in it, with lights and all, and a lovely walkway around it. We had a walk round, and sat just talking in the view for a while, when a lightening storm started over the city. It was cool to watch, there was no rain, just forks of lightening every so often, and it was class to watch the sky light up with all the buildings around too.

After chilling out at the Petronas towers area we decided to head back to the hostel for a relatively early night, we were tired from travelling plus we were wanting to go up to the Sky bridge between the Petronas towers the next day and we knew we were going to have to queue early to get tickets - they only release 1000 a day! So off to bed we went ahead of our 6.30am start!

We got up nice and early (or not) to get to the ticket office for 7.20 (our hostel recommended no later than 7.30 to be able to get tickets!). When we arrived there were already about 100 odd people queuing, but at least it wasn't 1000 people! The ticket office was due to open at half 8 so we took a seat on the floor, got our take away breakfasts out and waited. The queue got so long in that time, and a few queue bunkers were in operation which was driving me mad, and then I was driving Craig mad for being mad at them! A guy came round to count the tickets and when he got to us 400 tickets were gone already! Seems a few people just queue and then buy multiple tickets, either for larger groups or to sell, so by the time we got to the counter the earliest we could go up to the bridge was 1.20pm! the guards had stopped letting people join the queue before 9am, and so many people that came after us just left as they couldn't be bothered waiting. But we had persevered so far, we weren't giving up! It wasn't too bad in the end, we sat on the floor mainly and nibbled on food to occupy ourselves, and when we got our tickets we decided to go to the KL tower first since we had to wait till 1.20pm anyway.

We walked over to the KL tower, it was only about a15min walk but again it was such a hot day we were struggling walking up the hill to the tower! By this stage I think Craig was getting ready to kill me as I have a severe problem with walking on this trip. I must trip over my own feet on average 5 times a day, and Craig panics every time, then sits and mutters to himself about how clumsy I am! I swear its the flip flops! (Although I don't know what my excuse is then the rest of the time?)

The viewing platform of the tower is 100m higher than the sky bridge, and is 360 degrees, so we were looking forward to some great views and they really were spectacular! The ticket was great value at £8 (which we thought was quite dear at first) as we got a commentary headphone machine on the views at each window, a ride in an F1 simulator, a pass to see their animal kingdom and I got a pony ride! The animal kingdom was really cool, we both got to hold a snake - I was loving it, and even though Craig said he didn't want to hold it, the guy just draped it round Craig's neck then walked off! It was pretty funny - poor Craig started freaking out! Eventually the guy came back and the snake was safely locked up again! We wandered around the animals some more before going for the F1 simulator game thing. It was good, pretty hard, but just felt like the racing games you get at the odyssey or the like, although there was a weighing machine to make sure you weren't too heavy so I decided to have a go on that to see if all these rice dishes are starting to take effect - I was pleasantly surprised! To top off the morning, when we were leaving we were walking past the pony ride which has a sign saying you must be under 50kg to ride the ponies when a guy came out from it, took my ticket and started pulling me over to the pony! I explained, rather embarrassed that I was too heavy for the pony, but he just said oh 55kg is no problem - score! This guy thinks im only 55kg! Again I declined explaining that I was 57kg, for him to then say that's no problem either! Woo hoo a pony ride for me! The guy threw a helmet on me, and instead of taking me to the biggest pony, he brought me to this smaller one, and immediately started feeling guilty that I was going to squish this poor thing! They kept telling me it was fine so I got on as gently as I could and off we went! Now we had barely made it around the stall when the guy guiding the pony done a quick lap before bringing me back and telling me I was too heavy for the pony!! I had tried to tell them! So I got off, apologizing to the pony but in a great mood after basically being told I looked thinner than I was!

After that we headed for a quick half price lunch before walking back to the Petronas towers. The bridge was amazing, we were worried that after the KL tower the views here wouldn't be as good, but they really were! After this we headed back down to the shopping mall, and when we came out it was raining pretty heavy. This kind of suited us as we were both wrecked from the early start so we headed back to the hostel to have a nap.

That night we tried to find an Indian restaurant that was recommended in the lonely planet book, but to no avail, so we jumped on the metro to KLCC again, and ended up eating in the shopping mall at Petronas, at the beautiful Chilli's restaurant! I don't know if any of you ate in the Belfast one before it was shut, but it was one of my favourite places to eat! Great food and cocktails! Unfortunately were trying to be sensible with money so it was only soft drinks, but the food was great! After this we went to the Pavilion shopping mall - a really classy place full of expensive shops, but we weren't interested in what was inside the mall. They have a beautiful crystal fountain outside it made up of 3 bowls and Lotus flowers on them, to represent Malaysian culture. It really was beautiful to see, and it changed colour - was so class at night. Loads of Christmas decorations around too which was lovely but weird to see, neither of us feel Christmassy at all! We headed back to the hostel and just chilled out, tomorrow we get the bus to Melaka, so were going to explore Chinatown and Little India before the bus journey.

That morning we checked out of our hostel then left the bags there so we could go for a walk. We went around Little India first which was nice but we got followed by some random old woman! She literally followed us for about 20mins! We noticed her before crossing all the same lights as us and then we knew she was following us after we went into a 7/11 shop to buy a drink and when we came back out she was just standing there and starting walking behind us again! It was really funny! We decided to sit down on a bench to she what she would do, and she just sat down on the one beside ours! After about 5 mins we decided to get up and walk back towards the shop, and sure enough as soon as we got up, she got up! She must have got bored by this point because once we got to the shop she stopped and turned around and walked off! Gave us a laugh for a while anyway! Craig got a little bored of Little India (I was fascinated by all the colours and beautiful fabrics everywhere - mum you would have loved it too! Wish I could have bought some material and got you to make me another dress!) so we headed back towards Chinatown. We stopped along the way at the central market and got some lunch and then decided to finally give one of the foot 'fish spas' a go! Craig has wanted to do this since our 1st night in Bangkok but we never did for some reason so when we seen a sign for 10mins for £2 we thought why not! It was the strangest feeling in the world! You put your feet into this big see through tank that's filled with some type of fish and they go mad to get at your feet and suck the dead skin off! It was so so ticklish; I couldn't stop laughing and had to keep taking my feet out! The fish seemed to love Craigs' feet the most, don't know what that says about his feet! Glad we gave it a go though, was an experience!

Chinatown was really cool to see, seemed like a proper Chinese market right in the middle of the capital of Malaysia! All the shop signs in the area were in Chinese, it just had such an atmosphere. We headed back to the hostel to grab our bags and headed for the temporary bus station to get a bus to Melaka. We got the monorail out no problem but had bit of a nightmare trying to get to the actual station. After a bit of stressing and running around we finally made it, and then got tickets for the bus - happy days! We both really loved KL, would've been nice to have a bit more time here, but not much time left to our flight to Australia, and so much to see before then!

Craig and Laura = )