Arriving to Bangkok was a real shock to me; I felt that Asia is a total undiscovered world. At the beginning when we started planning to travel I had my inner fights about going to “poor countries”, as I thought Asia would be.
Bangkok was no way a regular city, and there I discovered that Asia is not a poor muddy roads with people on bicycles, but it was skyscrapers and sky trains. But now you think I am mentioning Bangkok as the city that took my heart but no…
We took a bus from Phuket to the destination of south. 16 hours, and by every step of the trip my heart was falling more and more in love with the country and finally the city that took my heart – Kuala Lumpur. Maybe the Christmas spirit that the city offered added a spice up to the feeling. Kuala Lumpur meant always to me Petronas Towers. You might say okay, they are huge towers so what’s the big deal, but they are simply beautiful, and the city bursts alight around them: it is modern and it is the vision of the Asia you know through the movies.
We spent a few days in KL, touring the city: it’s malls, gardens, crazy Chinatown and great shopping districts. The people in there are so cool. The ethnic mix of Malaysia is an experience itself; you will find Indians, Chinese, and Western looking faces and Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Chinese temples next to each other.
One street would be full of blond tourists walking next to veiled Malaysian girls and Indian girls with their saris and Chinese girls in mini-skirts, it is so diverse and so open minded. Even though alcohol cost a lot more then other places, KL has it’s charm, and it took me like a storm.
You would take a small ride in the sky train or whatever underground system they have and you would be in the jungle, The Lake Gardens are the start of the jungle, yes tropical jungle city is KL.
Thank you KL you gave me what I always wanted, a diverse culture that can manage to live together in harmony not like unfortunately my homeland.
Sasi in love with KL
P.S: My wife says it’s an Arab behavior to love shopping malls and big tall buildings. Oh, maybe it is then. And yes, am in love with Asian girls, they smile and never worry, life goes on and the easy way it does! This is the yellow fever men suffer in here…
Sasi said he is not going to write about butterflies and flowers, its girls duty. Anyhow, he enjoyed as much as I did of the Orchid and Hibiscus garden, and we both absolutely loved the butterfly park: there was tens of thousands of beautiful, colourful butterflies in there, some of them size of a sparrow! They came to sit on our heads and hands, and it was a small paradise indeed. If you go to KL, do not miss that, especially if you have kids. Have a look of the photos on our Flickr.
What comes to the Asian girls, it is so funny to see them flirting with my husband. They are like Siamese cats, almost like rubbing themselves on his feet and purring. Not a single man, even my husband, can resist that. And I like them too, their giggling and chirping, so am not even jealous!
Maiku
