PS: Crowned pigeons are dumb birds

After we finally managed to get to KL Tower, we went up to the top and saw some great views. It was quite smoggy and a thunderstorm was rolling in, but it was still a beautiful view! And the pictures still turned out well, which was great for me. Kuala Lumpur is a beautiful city!

While up there, we took some very successful pictures of me in a dark shadow and only a little bit of view in the background.

They didn't improve as we continued to try.












Way too many shadows.

You can see that the thunderstorm was coming!

The thunderstorm arrived and started down pouring just as we got to the bottom of the tower. We decided to wait it out at the cafe (The Rainforest Cafe. It was not like the one in the US.) The video doesn't quite capture the extreme amounts of rain that were coming down. It also doesn't capture how LOUD it was. But, it was very cool.

I ordered an iced milk tea to wait out the storm. It arrived scalding hot in the "feels like" 111 degree weather. Clearly, something was lost in translation.

We walked down the hill to the monorail. We got a bit lost, but Dustin used his magical ability to spot English speakers to ask for directions. We also realized a bit too late that the monorail doesn't connect to all the stations it appears to connect to on the subway map, so we took a strangely drawn out way back to the hotel.

We decided to cross over to the other side of the tracks to look at the mosque near our hostel at sunset. By the time we actually managed to get there, it was basically night time.

This is the view from the subway station next to our hostel.

I have no idea what building that is but it's pretty. It was very difficult to get a good picture of it due to the cars driving by and making my pictures blurry. How dare they.

This guy walked right into traffic! The cars were moving very quickly and he just sprinted across the street and hopped the fence. I would never have considered doing that. I do not plan to die by jaywalking.

This is the mosque.

We walked back to the station. The walk involved finding a very well disguised entrance to the train station, going up stairs, then down stairs, then up more stairs again and crossing an overpass. We ended up turning the wrong direction on the overpass.

We realized it was the wrong direction because it was extremely deserted. Then, it started feeling slightly dangerous. As Dustin said, "And this is how we get mugged."

After a quick stop at the hostel for some much needed water and sitting, we headed to the Patronus towers to take some night pictures.

It was definitely worth the trip!

At this point, I was still not over thinking "expecto patronum!" every time I heard the name.




Well, I'm still not over it...

There was a lovely and dramatic light show in front of the towers, which was very cool. We watched it for a while. It was relatively well attended. And the mall was wonderfully air conditioned. I wanted to live in there for their air conditioner.

We returned to the hostel. Our room air conditioner started leaking on my bed, which was gross.

Also, random note, in case anyone was wondering, I do keep a very detailed travel journal, which makes remembering events and stories for this blog a bit easier. For whatever reason, I ended my journal entry for this day with this:

"We go to the Batu Caves tomorrow! PS: Crowned pigeons are very dumb birds."

I don't remember why they were dumb...Sometimes I leave out important details. As you can tell, my next post will be about....

wait for it...

The Batu Caves!

Wandering the Parks of Kuala Lumpur

After the bird park, we wandered around the large park in the area.











It is a very lovely park, which has a very difficult name that I cannot remember at the moment. It contained botanical gardens.

It was extremely beautiful. And extremely hot. And extremely humid. Unbelievably humid. Korea is humid in the summer. It is nothing compared to Malaysia in November. It was All-The-Liquids-Are-Currently-Seaping-Out-Of-My-Body-And-I-Am-Never-Going-To-Recover hot.

It was also causing major sunscreen disasters. The sunscreen was melting off my face into my eyeballs, which was rather painful.



Oh, 88, that's not bad. Wait, what's that? The real feel temperature is 111? That's a temperature that exists? Yes, yes it is.

There was a mosque nearby. We found that when we walked in the wrong direction and then immediately turned around.

That's KL Tower in the background. We went up that just after wandering the parks.

Of course, there were monkeys. There are always monkeys.

There was a mini-Stonehenge in the park area for some reason.

It was actually a mini-Stonehenge. It was labeled as Stonehenge.

We climbed through a fence that was possibly not supposed to be open and ended up down by a small lake. I questioned whether or not we were allowed to be there due to the fact that nobody else was there and we never saw another person.

But, it was beautiful and we didn't get arrested. So no problem.

This looked like a very cool skate park, but it wasn't. I'm not sure what it was.

This was very beautiful!! The columns and all the flowers really balanced everything nicely.

This tunnel was fun.

We are not in Korea, Korean person. We are in Malaysia.

Fantastic drawing skills.

We then walked for quite a while, thinking we were headed to Kl Tower. At the point that we crossed a major highway and ended up nowhere near KL Tower, which looked like it was in walking distance on the map, I realized we were not going to get there on our own. And it was hot. So, so, so, hot. We took a cab and it took about 25 minutes. Whoops. Such is the life of wandering a new city. It's awesome! More to come in the next blog.