Today is our second day in Kuala Lumpur. After waking up at the leisurely hour of 7:30 and enjoying some stellar hotel breakfast, we headed out to hit up some major tourist attractions. Our theme of the day was BIG. Everything that we wanted to see and experience needed to be on a massive scale.
Our first stop of the day was Batu Caves. These caves are about 8km outside of the city, but they feel like a totally different world. It is a holy site for Hindus and many people travel far and wide for pilgrimage. The caves definitely fit our theme as they are major. Just to reach the caves we had to ascend 147 steep steps. We also had to battle the heat, old women walking slowly, overweight tourists, and monkeys. Unlike many around us, we did not experience much spirituality as we were dodging monkeys throwing their coconuts at passerby's and stealing sunglasses out of hands. Our moment of insightful bliss inspired by the caves was that in fact, we don't really like monkeys-- they are mean.
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| Heidi prior to becoming a sweaty mess climbing the stairs. |
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| One of the hundreds of monkeys that have reclaimed Batu Caves. |
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| A monkey took this photo for us. No -- seriously. They are that good. |
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| Adam and the towers. Respect! |
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| They are actually really beautiful buildings (and they happen to house the largest mall in KL. Not too shabby!) |
After a cheap and delicious hawker stall lunch in Chinatown, we hopped the subway to our next big destination--The Petronas Towers. With coffees in hand, we joined the throngs of people to cock our heads back and gaze in awe and enormity of these former world's tallest buildings. We never though that we would be so impressed with office buildings, but the Petronas Towers are pretty cool works of architecture.
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