Sit On Someone's Chest

Kuala Lumpur, May 12, 2010.

Fourth day in Malaysia, three days visiting the capital, Kuala Lumpur, modern city with skyscrapers, luxury neighborhoods, luxury cars and transport work, a whole new world compared to countries where we have been so far: India and Nepal.
We stay just a little disappointed with the time, the rate of humidity is very high in this country, over 90%, you can not do without star sweating all day, especially those of us who know the city for use as the only means of transport our legs ... We remain

appalled at the airport to KL, impressive work of modern architecture, reconstruction of jungle within dell'areoporto, luxury shops, excellent connection with the city, quick baggage claim and immigration section. One important thing to emphasize is that to go in Malaysia there is no need to apply for a visa, you can stay up to a maximum of 3 months with the possibility to enter and leave the country when you want, this was one of the other reasons why we made you decide to this destination.

in KL is not worth more than 3 days stay, things to see there are not many. This is a big city where the main activity for tourists shopping. In Chinatown, for example, you can find all the bootleg brands at bargain prices. The restaurants oriental style emerge like wildfire, odors of all kinds intoxicate the senses. In the district of Little India, the bazaar with shops, sari, shawls, pashminas and all Indian-style clothing covering the sidewalks and streets. These districts are proof that this multi-ethnic country, the 24.4 million inhabitants, 61.7% are indigenous, 23.8% Chinese, 7.1% Indians and the remaining 7.4% other cultures. The diversity of religions, also due to the direct reflection of the diversity of races living here. Although Islam is the state religion in Malaysia and Brunei, freedom of religion guaranteed in both countries, as well as in Singapore. In the capital you can meet with Easy Time mosques, Hindu temple, Buddhist and Catholic churches.

Our guest house is located in another central district of KL called Golden Triangle (Golden Triangle). This is the posh district of the city full of western style restaurants, shopping malls and luxury hotels, designer stores, the financial district of the city where it differs from the skyscrapers of the big multinational telecommunications, insurance companies, banks, luxury hotels and twin towers of the national oil company: Petronas.

The Petronas towers are the symbol of KL and perhaps throughout Malaysia. Until recently they were the tallest towers in the world, guinnees recently passed by a tower built in Dubai.
Visitors have the opportunity to visit the towers up to 41 floor (the floors are in total 88) where the bridge was built to seismic test, which joins the two towers.
The lift takes a minute to climb to 41 º, breakneck speed. Arriving on the wonderful views of the city, although it would have been even more if we had climbed to the top floor.

These towers are used for offices, but inside is also a Gallaro art and a huge theater that houses the National Philharmonic Orchestra. A chapter

particular should be reserved for food. The main course oriental restaurant, even if you can find a number of Italians and other Westerners, of course, very picari. We, given our finances, we must content ourselves with the way restaurants where the entrees are sauteed noodles in wok or soup, rice jumped or soup, soups, meat and fish, etc ... Actually I feel a little like India, when we started to eat Indian dishes from the first day, lunch and dinner, and after a month I was sick, I hope that here, the last a little more patience

Life in Malaysia is cheaper than in Europe but very Picasa from India and Nepal.
If you come here for a vacation of two weeks is fine, you can afford several luxuries at low cost, but since we have several months of travel and to visit countries we have to tighten their belts and try to save as much as possible. To give you an idea, the local currency is called Raggit (symbol = RM) and 1RM = 0.25 \\. As an example, a 1.5 liter bottle of water here costs 2.5 MRI (= 0.62 \\), India was 25 (INR = 0.42 \\) or the hotel where we stayed in those days we 100RM paid for 3 people (= 25 \\) in India when we could pay less than € 3 per person. Certainly the quality is completely different. The standards here are high even in cheap hotels or pensions.

Before catapulting in the coastal zone and throwing transparent and crystal clear waters where you can see coral reefs and an underwater world of extraordinary beauty, we will make a stop in the tea plantations of Cameron Highlands area. The temperature in this area tell us it's a little cooler, the hills rise up to 2000 meters, we can get away for a week humid tropical ...