Living in St.Petersburg (Russia): Walking through KL.

For two days out of three that we spent in KL we've been walking throughout it like crazy, in 34 degrees of heat and humidity, which from time to time turned into the pouring rain in a matter of minutes, only to change back again to the overcast or sunny day. Surprisingly my flat feet weren't as much as I thought they would be.

Although we haven't been to many places where tourists normally go according to the brochure that we've got at the Malaysia Tourism office, I feel like we've seen enough of KL. By the way, Malaysia Tourism office is not very efficient compared to the one in Thailand. Basically all they do is give you yet more brochures, no practical help with where we should get buses, how much is fare, and all that kind of stuff. That acctually was partly a reason why we walked so much. And we also learned that acctually KL is not that big of a city. Even if I, with my flat feet managed to walk through a good half of it, any other fit person would do the whole one with no problem. On a second day of our walk we turned east and walked all the way from Chinatown, where our windowless room was, to the Bukit Bintang walk (a street with fancy stores, malls, and cafes) and to the Petronas towers. This time we wanted to see it in a day light, but were forced to sit at the bus stop waiting out rain so heavy that the entire road was turned into a little white river.

Unfortunately, we couldn't make it to the observation deck in Petronas towers, because we didn't have a ticket, and they only give out free tickets from 9 to 11am on first come first served basis. We were told that by an effeminate boy at the information desk, who still was chewing his lunch after a lunch break with very noticable beautiful eyes that looked like they'd been done up. Weird enough we've seen quite many people here who were obviously gay, but it seems like the Malaysian society is more tolerant to them even though it is muslim.

After sleeping for 2 nights in our windowless cell at the Wheelers guesthouse, the third night wasn't all that bad. The bunch of people who running it also sort of grow on you. Maybe that's why even though it is crappy they still manage to get positive reviews online and even almost always booked out. Yesterday there was a whole family of four from Britain I think and Mom was complaining to the guy at the reception that it was too hot in their room and if they could get another fan. I thought it was funny for a whole family with one kid aged 9-10 to stay in a hostel that targets 18~25 youngsters with huge backpacks for $10 a night.

Petronas on an overcast day and we're at the entrance to the lake garden.

In the reception area of Wheelers guesthouse. Actually this picture turned out nicer than it is in reallity. But, as I said for such a cheap price it's not that bad place. A couple of Germans that we met, told us that before finding Wheelers, they looked at another hostel and that one was even worse than the Wheelers.