Kuala Lumpur Continued

Our next few days in Kuala Lumpur we stayed in the heart of Chinatown. Although it was no Traders Hotel it was nice enough and central to the local monorail and subway system. We spent the majority of our time exploring KL with self guided walking tours. We got to witness some preparation for the upcoming Independence day, pom poms and flags aplenty. 

Independence Day Preparation

After walking through the central market in the afternoon we came across some do it yourself batik painting and thought, why not just it a try! We only had a quick lesson and lacked some skill I think that our gecko and hibiscus flower paintings turned out alright. 

Batik Painting

We tried to get to the Petronas Towers early since they have limited tickets and times which sell out fairly early in the day. Even though we were there by 10 am we found it wasn't soon enough and all the tickets for the day were already gone. Not to worry, we headed about 20 minutes west and were able to view the city from the KL tower (half the price too!).

Continuing temple tour trend, we hopped on the KL commuter train to the Batu Caves, a Hindu temple built within limestone caves. The statue out front was probably the most glamours part about it as the temples were mainly closed to visitors and the public area contained mostly roosters and over aggressive monkeys. To make the trek worthwhile we took part in a dark cave eco tour taking us further into the caves with a local guide explaining formation of the limestone and insects and animals within it.

Batu Caves

From KL we head to Yogyakarta to travel east through Java and into Bali!