Why doesn't Britain have a big tower? That's the first thing that comes to mind when you get to Kuala Lumpar, as this city has seemingly got loads of them. At least two anyway; three if you count the twin towers twice, which is probably cheating. London could really do with a big tower, it doesn't even have one in the top ten in the world, not sure where they could do it, but i'm going to suggest somewhere in North London as there is nothing else there. Or perhaps outside of London.....Liverpool for example.

But I digress (again), after a seven hour coach journey that was as boring as it sounds we got there and ended up at a hotel in the centre of Chinatown. As luck would have it, for Rhiannon at least, it was right next to a big massive night market full of fake designer goods at low, low prices! Unsurprisingly this market took up every one of our four nights in KL. You can picture the scene, Rhiannon gets the shopping glint in her eye and suddenly everything is a bargain - which to be honest it is if you are good at haggling, and I reckon that we are.

Sadly we haven't made a stall holder cry yet as one of our friends has (you know who you are Claire), but we did get a few of them moaning about feeding their familes or some such garbage "yeah whatever mate, it's a dog eat dog world, now just knock that 20p off and we can talk business otherwise it's nothing for you. What's it to be? You've got ten seconds................thank you very much, pleasure doing business with you." I think Rhiannon more than me takes pleasure in beating them down to the last penny, she's totally unrecognisable from the girl who thought offering them a lower price than their first was rude!

Apart from shopping we got on the hop on hop off bus for a day and just like in San Francisco that was the cue for the heavens to open and us to go round and round the loop until it stopped raining, at least this time it didn't leak. Nevertheless we managed to get our bearings on what is a very large and sprawling city, it's tough to walk around aswell as like most Malaysian cities the town planners decided that pavements were a luxury they could afford to do without. It's also a very hot and humid city and if you try and walk around it for more than an hour you'll find yourself dripping in sweat, probably, that could have just been me.

We got up at the crack of dawn to get into the Petronas Towers, which are the twin towers and the largest twin towers in the world. For about four years they were the largest towers in the whole world, but now they are only third. Aaaah. I've got a little leaflet of stats that I won't bore you with right now. They are very smart looking from the outside and although we don't know anything about this sort of thing we would say that they are excellently designed. 1st class in fact.

We also went up the Menara tower which is a telecoms tower 421m high and the viewing deck is actually higher than in the twin towers so we got to look out on the whole of KL, which was nice. In the top ten lists they seem to differentiate between towers that people work in and towers that are for telecommunications. That's enough about towers.

All in all we spent three days and four nights here and it was a lot better than we expected. I was here 8 years ago and it was smoggy, hot and it smelt - now it is just hot, so big thumbs up there! The bus station is still a nightmare though; as were the Aussie blokes in the next room to us who hired themselves some ladies of the night for the erm night and had a bit of a party, cheers for that lads. We complained and then moved rooms. But that was only a minor blot on a fun place to stay. Great chinese food aswell.