As we said in our last blog, this is our third visit to the city. Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia and definitely the last time we will be visiting Malaysia during our travels. Luckily our minibus dropped us off slap right bang in the middle of China Town, as the hostel we wanted to stay in was less than a 5 min walk away saving on additional transportation costs.

On arrival at our hostel, Fernloft Hostel, the manager recognised us from the last time we stayed. As we had looked online, we found that there was a special offer where if you book three nights you only pay for two which significantly helped our budget. The hostel was clean and modern (just how we like it) and although we were in a dorm with 24 beds we enjoyed our stay.

The first day was spent doing a self guided walking tour around Little India as every Saturday they hold a big market day and it was interesting to see what the local Indian people buy as it was so different to the markets in India. We struggled with the heat and humidity in KL as we came from the Cameron Highlands which was cold by contrast.

The evening was spent eating street food which was abs delish. This led to a discussion as to whether street food would be successful in the UK and we came to the conclusion that it would not as most of our dishes are oven baked and we have very strict health and safety guidelines which is a shame.

The next day we woke up extra early to try and queue up and get some tickets to go up the Petronas towers and we were told that tickets were sold out and that we would have to come back on Tuesday as the towers are closed on a Monday. We still queued up and to our luck we managed to get two tickets for a 4pm viewing. We chilled out in the hostel to avoid the heat and used this opportunity to do some research for campervanning in Australia.

Come 4pm we headed to the Petronas towers, the tallest twin towers in the world standing at 452 metres with 88 storeys. The design of each towers floor plan is based on Islamic geometric forms of two interlocking squares creating a shape of 8 pointed stars. Once our tour started we were amazed to see a hologram of a woman giving instructions and it was fascinating to see the young malay/chinese girls being scared of the hologram. We visited the skybridge on the 41st floor and the 86th floor, while this was a good experience nothing will beat going up the Taipei 101.

First thing Monday morning, we headed to the Indonesian Embassy in the hope that they would issue a 60 day visa. Both of us had a negative experience as the staff were so rude and would not help when we didn't understand them. We left the embassy feeling demoralised and convinced that they would only issue us a 30 day visa.

After the embassy, we headed to Batu Cave, (Google it up) as we're still not sure what the caves purposes are but we do know that they are of utmost significance to the Hindu religion (we think). We were not impressed with the cave's and thanked our lucky stars that it was a free attraction, however, there were a couple of cheeky monkeys screeching at people they did not like (which was hilarious to watch) and lots of people struggling with the two hundred and seventy something steps and thousands of pigeons with their feet intact (unlike the ones in London).

Our last day in Kuala Lumpur, and Malaysia was spent chilling out at our hostel as the next 6 weeks is going to be chaotic taking in some scuba diving study, a smash and grab tour of Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, lots of long bus journeys etc. The afternoon was spent at the Indonesian Embassy picking up our passport's and this time we were met with friendly smiles and to our delight found that we both had been issued with 60 day visas. Gili Trawangan, here we come (although not until March!).

Our next destination is Ko Pha-ngan, one of the Thai islands in the Gulf of Thailand. (Don't worry Dad Gillespie, We are not going to a full moon party!)