Bird & butterfly sanctuary & food tour!

A bit of an organizational blunder this morning. Our scheduled 3 hour tour today was going to be a repeat of yesterday's tour (which was more extensive than we expected)! Fortunately our guide for today recommended visiting the KL Bird & Butterfly Sanctuaries instead. The Bird Sanctuary was interesting and fun. Wouldn't bother with the Butterfly Sanctuary again, though.
Back to the Hotel for a rest and to wash some clothes before heading up to the roof top swimming pool again.
We got a taxi from the hotel to the Chow Kit district which cost 8 ringgits (approx $3.50 AUD) for a 20 min ride.
We booked a "Sambal Streets KL Food Tour" from 1630 - 1930 hrs. Stephen (Malaysian born) was our excellent guide. We visited maybe 6 venues where we were treated to traditional Malaysian food. No tourists (apart from us) where we ate.
We have discovered that these food tours offer much more than just local food - the Guides are essentially tourist guides who are willing to go out of their way to make it an outstanding experience for guests.
We had around 15 tastings, including the national drink Teh Varik (tea with condensed milk) - loved it! Roger's favourite dish was Roti with 3 sauces and mine (Kerrie's) was Chendul (an iced sweet dessert made of coconut milk, palm sugar, & pandan flavoured green rice jelly). Most dishes were spicy featuring various levels of Sambal Olek. Needless to say we were not hungry at the completion of the tour - so glad we hadn't eaten since breakfast!
So a mediocre start to the day but one that finished very enjoyably!Read more