Today we split up again. Dan & Joanne went to a shopping mall, and actually took in a movie. Gerard and I thought we would go see what the Perdana Botanical Gardens were like.
We took our time getting going, but then set off before 11 am. We took the monorail to the Central station. Then we got kinda lost. It took us quite a while to find the National Museum, which is more or less at the entrance to the gardens. So we thought we would take in what the museum had to offer.
It was set up in 4 parts, prehistoric, Malay kingdoms, colonial, and modern.
We spent about an hour there and determined it was too late to visit the gardens, as we were to meet with Dan & Joanne at the cultural show at the Tourist Information area in KL, and we hadn't had any lunch yet. So we went there and had lunch at the restaurant on the grounds. Very nice.
The show was interesting, a video by Tourism Malaysia which looks like most other tourism advertisements, then the cultural dancers came out. The dances were quite good. They were varied and very colourful.
It was time to head back to our hotel to enjoy the pool after the heat and humidity. Have I mentioned how hot it has been here? It's been around 32C every day and quite a lot of humidity, feeling like 45C. I hesitate to say this, but it hasn't rained at all on our trip, at least not to interfere with anything we've done. A couple of downpours while we've been in a car, and at night, and a bit of rain a couple of evenings when we were out eating or having a drink. But that's it!
On the way back to our hotel, we walked past this sign. I just had to get a picture.
And then notice what's in front of the sign all along the sidewalk. Enforcement could be a problem?
Here's the pool where we hung out for a bit.
We had dinner and drinks at our hotel, the free place, before we headed out to the KL Tower for views of the city. This is a view of the tower itself between other buildings.
While up the tower, we had great views of the city and there were a lot of lights, but it was difficult to get decent pictures because of the slant of the glass, and it was night time, with no tripod. The view of the Petronas Towers from the KL Tower was not so great. Too much of an angle, so you couldn't see both parts. So none of them are here.
But here's one last one of the Petronas Towers from the roof of our hotel. Best I could do.
They are quite impressive.
Tomorrow morning we are off early to Malacca (Malaka) about 2 hours south of KL. It's on the Malaysian shore, facing the island of Sumatra which is in Indonesia.
We took our time getting going, but then set off before 11 am. We took the monorail to the Central station. Then we got kinda lost. It took us quite a while to find the National Museum, which is more or less at the entrance to the gardens. So we thought we would take in what the museum had to offer.
It was set up in 4 parts, prehistoric, Malay kingdoms, colonial, and modern.
We spent about an hour there and determined it was too late to visit the gardens, as we were to meet with Dan & Joanne at the cultural show at the Tourist Information area in KL, and we hadn't had any lunch yet. So we went there and had lunch at the restaurant on the grounds. Very nice.
The show was interesting, a video by Tourism Malaysia which looks like most other tourism advertisements, then the cultural dancers came out. The dances were quite good. They were varied and very colourful.
It was time to head back to our hotel to enjoy the pool after the heat and humidity. Have I mentioned how hot it has been here? It's been around 32C every day and quite a lot of humidity, feeling like 45C. I hesitate to say this, but it hasn't rained at all on our trip, at least not to interfere with anything we've done. A couple of downpours while we've been in a car, and at night, and a bit of rain a couple of evenings when we were out eating or having a drink. But that's it!
On the way back to our hotel, we walked past this sign. I just had to get a picture.
And then notice what's in front of the sign all along the sidewalk. Enforcement could be a problem?
Here's the pool where we hung out for a bit.
We had dinner and drinks at our hotel, the free place, before we headed out to the KL Tower for views of the city. This is a view of the tower itself between other buildings.
While up the tower, we had great views of the city and there were a lot of lights, but it was difficult to get decent pictures because of the slant of the glass, and it was night time, with no tripod. The view of the Petronas Towers from the KL Tower was not so great. Too much of an angle, so you couldn't see both parts. So none of them are here.
But here's one last one of the Petronas Towers from the roof of our hotel. Best I could do.
They are quite impressive.
Tomorrow morning we are off early to Malacca (Malaka) about 2 hours south of KL. It's on the Malaysian shore, facing the island of Sumatra which is in Indonesia.
what kinds of things did you learn at the museum ?
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