The capital of Malaysia is only a cheap 45 minute flight away from Singapore. Pat and I arrived early in the morning, checked into our fancy hotel, grabbed coffee (because we woke up at 3:30 in the morning like insane people) and decided to start the trip with a visit to the 451-meter tall Petronas Twin Towers. All the travel blogs and internet forums said the twin towers were awesome, and they were pretty impressive from the outside. However, if you ever go to KL, don’t pay to go on the “tour” of the skywalk. It was raining when we went, so there was no city view, but we both agreed that even with a view it wouldn’t really have been that interesting. Plus they trap you in the gift shop at the top for 30 minutes, which was terrible. Then we went to the Islamic Arts Museum and looked at cool Islamic art.
Fancy hotel rooftop pool. 
Fancy Pat in fancy hotel room. 
Fancy night rooftop view. 
Petronas Towers. 
They’re pretty tall. 
The view when it’s raining. 
A photo that is dumb just because I didn’t want a repeat of Singapore when I had no photos of myself. 
Being bored playing with the interactive screens. 
The pretty roof of the Islamic Arts Museum.
The coolest part of the day was later when we went to Taman Connaught Market, one of Malaysia’s longest night markets. Every Wednesday thousands of locals pack into a 2 kilometer stretch of street to buy and sell food, drinks, clothes, trinkets, electronics, and more. Pat and I focused on the food (obviously)…
Pat’s first market purchase! 
Pat’s first market commemorative photo. 
Apom Balik (I don’t know but it was peanut-y and delicious. 
We ate food from that Van. 
I got the pork dumplings I’ve loved since Thailand. 
Cleanliness standards on point at the sugar cane juice stand. 
We didn’t actually get dim sum but I liked the colors. 
This is fried milk. It tastes exactly like if you just put milk in a fryer. 
Peoples. 
Dessert! We got the green, coconut one and it was filled with syrup. 
The queue for stinky tofu was really long so we tried it. 
He didn’t like the stinky tofu. 
It smells as appetizing as it looks. 
Dragon fruit smoothie! 
Mochi with peanut-y filling is delicious.
The thing that I was most looking forward to in Kuala Lumpur (and actually all of Malaysia because I didn’t know what was there) were Batu Caves. They are limestone caves where a huge Hindu shrine and temple were built, with a few hundred rainbow-colored stairs leading to the entrance of the main cave. There were monkeys EVERYWHERE, which I probably would’ve been excited about 9 months ago, but after being in Asia for a while I’m actually terrified of monkeys. I think I kept my cool pretty well though.
Stunning. 
So colorful and detailed! 
Pat on some stairs. 
Evil monkey probably deciding how to attack. 
More colors and cool detail. 
Inside the cave. 
Monkeys plotting together to attack the humans. 
Me standing on stairs and looking up at nothing to attempt being artsy. 
Me sitting on stairs (you’re welcome for these very helpful captions). 
Purty. 
Evil monkey with colorful backdrop. 
Evil monkey heading in for the kill.
The rest of our time in KL was spent exploring the very versatile city. It’s kind of a city under construction, so it’s not all that photogenic. We walked around Chinatown, Petaling Street, and Central Market, but KL is super hot and humid, so we didn’t stay out too long. We got food at Jalan Alor Food Street, which was fun and reminded me a lot of the food streets in Thailand. We also stumbled into the downtown shopping district, with majorly excessive malls and big billboards; a very different vibe than a few streets away at the food street.
The sign for petaling street (duh). 
Petaling Street (probably dead because of the heat). 
The river of love. 
A cool mosque. 
Jalan Alor Food Street 
Dinner! 
The mall was huge. 
Super fancy and random. 
This part of town felt like Bangkok.
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