Kuala Lumpur - Day 2

My goals today were to hit up the two massive towers in this city. First up, the petronas towers, which were the tallest towers in the world between 1998 to 2004, until Taipei 101 was built - that i visited just over a week ago too!

Incredibly impressive from the street. I wanted to go up but they have very limited numbers of people allowed daily and sold out for next couple of days. My lack of research got me this time :)

The heat this day was incredibly stifling. I walked 25 minutes to get to the petronas towers and desperately needed A/C somewhere to cool off. Had a small beer at a nearby irish pub and started to figure out how to get to the current worlds second tallest building. The merdeka 118. Found a taxi and then soon felt even smaller underneath this bohemoth. Very unfortunately the observation deck is still under construction and not possible to go up yet. Theres a hyatt lounge on the 74th floor, but they said i didnt meet the dress code. Booooo

Made a highly questionable decision to walk 20 minutes in the heat back to my hotel. Didnt feel so great after that walk and lay down for a few hours in my frigid room to get my temperature back to normal

A really nice couple i met in langkawi were also back in kuala lumpur and wanted to meetup. Elena (from mexico/winnipeg - odd pairing, i know haha) suggested meeting away from the downtown chaos so i took a 30 minute ride to the burbs and met up at 7pm. She works for united nations in myanmar, and oh boy did i have a lot of questions haha. Her boyfriend from Guinea eventually finished work and joined us too. Stayed there until about midnight and that was it. Too tired to even think aboit anything but bed.

Loved my 2 days in KL. I would love to return someday.Read more