Kuala Lumpur

What we learned in KL:
Humidity is a friend to no-one!!
Laura can turn from white to lobster red within 2 hours.
It was so nice to be able to converse with people in English.
You have never experienced true darkness until you have ate at a fine in the dark restaurant.

Day 1
Following a pretty sleepless night flight we decided that yet again we would need to go and have a nap (a regular occurrence on this trip) after checking in to our hotel. A quick 2 hour sleep had us back feeling slightly better but we soon decided that a day at the pool was called for. Getting into the lift and pressing the button for the roof we were hugely impressed with the view of the Kuala Lumpur skyline.
An afternoon of lazing around (and burning a lot for Laura) we decided to go out and explore this hugely humid city.
Within 5 minutes of stepping out of the hotel Harriet's hair had multiplied in size with Laura's not far behind it (think Monica from friends in Barbados).
After a couple of hours of wandering in the city we headed to one of the places that we were going to be knocking off Harriet's bucket list....Dine in the dark.
When we arrived at the restaurant we quickly got about completing some seemingly simple tasks that were set for us, not finding them simple at all. The first was to determine which fruits had been used to make a drink, to test your sense of taste and smell, and we only managed one out of the three!!
The next task involved us putting on blindfold and each searching for 4 paper clips in a pot of uncooked rice. We managed two each before becoming frustrated and giving up.
Our poor effort was spotted by the hostess who invited us to come and meet our server to put us out of our misery, and introduced us to Marcos who was completely blind.
After the introductions we were asked to queue up behind Marcos 'conga style' and he soon led us into the darkest room we had ever been in. Unable to even see a hand in front of our faces, we wondered how we were going to eat dinner without dropping it all over ourselves or stabbing ourselves in the hand with a knife!! Luckily Marcos was a fantastic server and taught us how to feel around the edges of the table to identify where things were such as cutlery and drinks. We approached each course with extreme caution due to not knowing what the menu was until after the meal. Laura announced on several occasions 'if it is tripe I will make myself sick'.....luckily the courses were much more palatable that that and we found that we things a differently to how they would normally when there was no preconception of the food.
We guessed around 50% of the dishes right when it came to the end, which we decided was a pretty effort.
All in all we found that it was a wonderful and humbling experience.

Day 2
After a relaxing nights sleep we headed out and onto a train in order to reach our next destination in KL, the Batu caves. After enjoying the air conditioning we finally arrived at our destination and the sweating began to start. One of the batu caves are located at the top of a flight of 272 steps which normally would be a struggle...but in the humidity, temperature and sarongs we had to wear it was a mean feat.
After taking pictures with the temples and monkeys....several of which Laura tried to get into our bag to bring home we headed back down the steps.
On our way back we headed down to have a henna done on our hands before heading back to the hotel to cool down by the pool.

After a couple of hours we decided to head out for the evening. After a quick pit stop for some pad Thai (I know it's a Thai dish but we couldn't resist) we went to see the patronus towers lit up and browse the local markets. After a couple of hours of bartering, magnet searching and plenty of coke slushies we retired to bed.

After the chaos of China and Kuala Lumpur we were extremely excited that the next stop on our trip was the Indonesian island of Bali.