Photos of my wonderful 4 day experience in Kuala Lumpur thanks to Sarah & Rog

Sarah in her gorgeous apartment in Kuala Lumpur - where I was royally treated for 4 glorious days of sight seeing, wonderful meals and good giggles.

This is THE BEST street restaurant in all of KL - the food was just wonderful - photo (hopefully below) I so loved it that Sarah and I went returned to feast,  when Rog had to fly out for work !  It was the most delicious Thai food -

 

 



This was our first meal - the item that looks like a large round bread roll is in fact a fresh Coconut with the (blue) straw (for the fresh milk)  and a spoon so you can dig out the coconut flesh - its the BEST drink !  The Satay Chicken on the purple dish was my choice - but these guys didn't make/ cook it, but they knew a restaurant across the road who did - so they got the order from them.  Just so lovely, friendly and accommodating.  This meal along with two bottles of beer for Rog came to the princely sum of 17.50 UK pounds !  For the three of us - I've always been generous to a fault !!!  I was so worried I wouldn't have sufficient money and these restaurants certainly don't take credit cards - I need  not have been anxious - three of your can "stuff yourself for well under 20 quid !  Bargain !

Sarah and Rog at the restaurant - not a good photo - but the only one I can find !!!

This was our Saturday morning destination the Batu Caves - absolutely amazing - one of the oldest and most popular Hindu shrines - and you can see in the background the 272 steps that lead up to the caves - this Gold statue guards the cave entrance.

Sarah at the start of our climb into the Cave system.   We took the middle staircase to avoid the monkeys - yeah right - and then discovered that the centre staircase was for pilgrims - whoops !

This Statue / shrine was one of many inside the cave system - in fact this one was right at the furthest point where the cave opens up to the sky many hundreds of feet above - so there is some vague daylight there - I reckon ALL women should have the benefit of two pairs of arms !!!  Just a personal suggestion but so useful when you are unloading the car, trying to cope with small children or dogs. It should be looked into with genetic engineering !  Clothing might be a  problem initially but someone would come up with a designer label !!!

This was Friday morning's first sightseeing tour of the Malaysian Indian and Chinese Quarters - this was the one of the many Indian Shrines/temples, and the view I saw when I came out of the car park - so unlike the views in Weston !!!

This lion/dragon and highly decorated statue guard the entrance to a local Chinese temple (almost opposite to the Indian Shrine above)- the lion is carved out of one piece of stone - (granite I believe) and in his mouth is a ball - carved in situ and it cannot be taken out of its mouth - I believe it is symbolic - but can't remember why !  There is another identical dragon/lion and statue on the other side of the temple entrance.

 

 

 

And this is the temple the Lions and their statues were guarding - we arrived at the Chinese were celebrating their New Year - so lots of incense and fire crackers as well as Dragon Dances - all very noisy but great fun and lanterns stretching all down the roads and alley ways in the Chinese Quarter.(The temple isn't on a slant - it was the photographer who was)

 

The Entrance to one of the many Market's this one was air conditioned - thankfully - I've taken the photo from the front of Sarah's car as we waited to cross the traffic.KL.

And those sort of yellow marking indicates you could cross the road - but you really took your life in your hands if you did - it seems that pedestrians were fair game a sport for adding  another notch on the steering wheel !



The traffic - totally manic - suicidal motorcyclists mixing it with the other road uses with very little thought for their own safety or anyone else for that matter.  I was SO glad I didn't have to drive in



Sadly (or probably heaving a sign of relief) that's all the photos I have managed to find - on Dee's computer that I've down loaded from my phone !  The other day when I looked on her computer - I found all the photos - that I had taken - about 500 or so - but they've certainly taken off, probably shy not wishing to be viewed by the general public.  So I'll sign off for now - and try to get up to date with the Australian Odyssey - you see I can spell it if I really try !!!