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| Ahhh, a lazy morning on Raj's balcony. | Gorgeous views! | First order of the day - cell phone sim cards. After that, m&m's. We'd never seen Banana m&m's! | A mix of brown, dark yellow, light yellow. Not too bad, like banana flavored chocolate. | Traffic is insane and this is middle of the afternoon, not even close to rush hour, on a Friday. | ||
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| Scooters are everywhere, legally can go between cars, cars make room for them and mostly yield to them. | Wild monkeys! | Raj took us up to the top of a hill with temples (but we couldn't get in). Monkeys all around here. | Interesting electrial wiring. | Sue gets a picture of the city. | ||
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| Sue's picture :-) | Getting towards sunset. | Feral dogs up here too, with pups. | Monkeys preening each other. | Monkeys eating fruit. | ||
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| Saturday morning, Bob made breakfast. | Awesome to hang out on Raj's balcony! | Rain diversions down the hill next to the condo. When it rains here, it deluges! | Steep hillside so rain culverts have steps in them. | Raj and Bob as we head out to lunch. | ||
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| Raj and Nancy took us to a great local restaurant. | Lunch on banana leaves! | Fun! | Cool looking building! | |||
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| More fun designs | Welcome to the Kuala Lumpur Tower | Another fun shaped building. | Pretty little outdoor garden at the Tower. | 100 year old Jelutong Tree, threatened species so the tower design was modified to help it survive. | ||
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| From the KL Tower looking at the Petronas Twin Towers. | Everywhere there are rain culverts, including on this hill next to the road below us. | At Petronas Twin Towers now, pond and park next to the towers. | Back side of the towers. | |||
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| Front of the towers looking straight up. | ||||||
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| That's some serious scaffolding! | Beautiful! | Bob and Sue at Petronas Towers | ||||
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| View of the KL tower spire from the base of the Petronas Towers. | Moo Cow frozen yogurt - with a full sized cow :-) George comments that Isetan is a Japanese dept store chain, he hadn't seen one outside Japan before. | More M&M's | This time Pineapple m&m's! We never see these in the US! | Next, Raj drove us to Batu Caves. George comments "Quick Robin, to the Batu Caves" :-) | ||
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| Interesting statues and temple coming up next! Notice the steps... lots of them... | selfie | Limestone cliffs | Steep cliffs with stalagtites | |||
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| Bob showing his hair length at the "Shaving Bald and Ear Piercing" booth | The head shaving is a huge deal for the Hindu faithful as this is a pilgrimage site for the yearly festival of Thaipusam. This family was kind enough to let us take pictures. | Festival is next weekend so lots of booths being set up. This one has of all things, rubber chickens! | 272 steep steps coming up! | |||
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| Raj and Nancy walk us to the steps then go hang out, they've been up there many times. | Sue, Raj, and Nancy looking up. | Women may not have their knees exposed in the temple so sarong skirts are available for rent. | More wild monkeys are everywhere here. | |||
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| Monkey tears open the coconut | to get at the inside meat. | There are a few other caves on the side of Batu Caves. | Bob | Great view of Kuala Lumpur from near the top of the steps. | ||
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| Sue at the Dark Caves entrance. | From the top of the steps, Kuala Lumpur. Steps to the Dark Cave are to the right. | Inside, many beautiful statues. | Further inside, more steps up to a gorgeous bigger cavern, open to the sky. | |||
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| Lots of construction going on for the festival next weekend. | ||||||
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| From the inside looking back to the entrance. | Couple hundred feet high, the cavern is open to the sky. What a beautiful place! | Really is limestone, so there really are stalgtites hanging down. | Some statues are huge, these are only life-size. | |||
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| Unfortunately, in the farthest place inside, some asshats have added ugly graffiti :-( | Heading back down the steep steps. | This guy has animal control loop sticks and is trying to catch one of the agressive monkeys. | Who needs 100RM to go up the Kuala Lumpur Tower when it was only I think 3 RM for this gorgeous view? | Carrying boxes of water bottles up to the seller stalls up top. This guy has been up and down several times in just the few minutes we've been here. | ||
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| Guy in white looks a lot like George, when George was younger ;-) | Multiple guys hauling water up. | same guy again | Also guys hauling banana trees up. | This guy stops to rest. | ||
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| Look at the middle of the tree - really is a banana tree with bananas on it! | Down at the bottom at one of the stalls, guy is shoveling coconuts into a bin. | We then visited a supermarket and got a bunch of local fruit. Here, dragonfruit. | Thai Longan about the size of large grapes. | Peel the husky skin off, pull a large seed out, and they taste like a grape. | ||
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| Water apple - tastes like a crispy pear | Jack Fruit - peel it away from an inner seed and it's stinky but tasty sweet. | Papaya too! Thanks Raj for slicing everything up! We had a young unripe coconut too... | ||