KL Malaysia

Got into KL early Wednesday morning and made it to the wonderful hostel, the red palm, I highly recommend it if anyone is going to KL, I'll probably be back here in a few weeks myself! Anyway, the first morning a woman who half lives here (also from Seattle- and her dad is from NC, how weird) took me around to the markets and showed me the shops where us western women can find shirts, so that was cool. Lazed around in the afternoon, and then Simon got in at night and we hung out with people at the hostel and had food, and then went to Kareoke. It's not nearly as good here as in Japan, were a bit dissapointed in the song selection, and they slapped a service charge on us that they didn't tell us about beforehand so we were a bit miffed at that.

Today we went to the Batu caves as pictured below, they were just discovered a little over 100 years ago, and a hindu temple has been built inside. The caves are beautiful, but would be better without the touristy stalls. It's also overun with monkeys who constantly go through the garbage and drink through cans.

Have walked around the markets as well today, and of course they have all the same stuff that was sold at the tourist shop I worked at in Seattle, an experience which turned me off buying souvenirs for life!

Am enjoying the slow-paced, relaxed atmosphere of SE Asia, its fantastic. Sunday we head off to the Perhentian Islands, met some girls here who went there and said it was fantastic so we're really excited to go and check it out. you have to take a speed boat from the mainland to get there, and apparently have to change to another boat in the middle of the sea, so we'll see how that goes!