After a dozy five hour bus ride, we arrived in KL Sentral. Luckily a guy from my hostel in Cameron Highlands was on the same bus and staying in the same hostel in KL so I didn’t get lost, which made quite a nice change!The hostel was part of an Indian restaurant so I headed down for a dinner of masala dosa (or thosai as they call it in Malaysia)Then I planned to have a film night in bed…However I started thinking about my travel plans as Malaka had been added to my list of places that I wanted to visit which is in between KL and Singapore so I thought it would be better to continue down the coast to Singapore rather than zigzag. 3 hours and 2 spreadsheets later, I had a new plan for my next 10 days would get me right the way through to the jungle in Borneo!After all that hard work, I decided I deserved a beer. One beer…that’s how it all starts…Cut to me on bar street at midnight with the girls from my room. Luckily they were old ladies too and decided the club was too loud and suggested we go and find a bar where we can have a beer and talk!The next morning I joined their group again and we went to Batu Caves, the site of a hindu temple and shrine. (Oh and 272 colourful steps!)We returned back to KL and I bid them adios (they’re from Spain!) and went to look at the colourful streets in the area we were staying in, Jalan Alor. The area used to be a but dodgy so the government commissioned some street art in a bid to boost tourism and safety in the area.Then I walked over to Chinatown to meet my friend Karen, that I’d met in Penang. The two of us were then meeting my friend who I met in Cameron Highlands, Sara, at a rather interesting roof top bar. By day it’s merely a helipad but by sunset it’s an exclusive cocktail bar with 360° views of the city. Their one rule is that everyone must buy a drink in the bar before they’re allowed up…seems ok until you look at the menu and see the prices!! We were there for happy hour which meant you could get a cocktail for £6, that seems ok for a cocktail unti you realise that you can have a complete dinner for half of that! Other options were a pint of beer for £6 or a bottle of water for £5. Well you can guess which option we went for!Unfortunately with the haze caused by burning season in Indonesia, the sunset wasn’t quite a sunset but the views of KL in the dark were still spectacular.Sunset was at 7.15 so we were hoping to make it to the fountain show in front of the Petronas Towers for the 8 o clock show. We got in a grab with 20 mins until show time, perfect for the 10 minute ride..Except I’m not sure that our driver had been to KL before this day and definitely didn’t like taking directions from google, apparently! We missed the start so decided to grab a bite to eat and then head down for the 9pm showing. It was worth the wait!The next day, Karen and I went to Chinatown, the sentral market and the national mosque. Unfortunately, we missed the guided tour of the mosque as it had been raining so heavily we waited too long in the sentral market for it to subside and we arrived 10 minutes after the last tour.

There had been talk of gin and tonics but the rain made the 20 minute walk to the gin bar sound awful! So after wishing Karen the best of luck for her next adventure- 2 weeks of hiking in Nepal, I went back and had another delicious dinner at the Indian restaurant at my hostel for my last night