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Palmira is going on a 2 months trip to Sout East Asia. She is sharing her experiences and adventures with us

Kuala Lumpur (Malasya)

The night bus that took us from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur and which arrival was expected at 6.30 am, left us in at  a bus stop, that wasn´t really one, in the middle of nowhere at 4 am! In Spain, this driver would have lost six points of his drivers  license because of the speed that he was going at and that didn´t let us sleep.

Harassed by a group of 4-6 taxi drivers willing to take us to anywhere,  we didn´t have any clue of where we were and where we wanted to go so we decided to have breakfast in the nearest bar until sunrise.

The main reason why we took that bus is because we wanted to be in KL very early in the morning to get two of the free tickets to go up to the skybridge of the Petronas Towers. It took us a while to understand the KL´s metro system and when we finally managed to deal with it we made our way to the train station where we left our backpacks in some lockers for the day.

Once in the Petronas towers´ hall where the tickets were given out we realized that we hadn´t been the only ones who had been advised to be there early in the morning. At 8:15 am there was a long line in the hall. Five minutes later of being already in the queue they told us to come back the next day because they weren´t any tickets left for us. Desperately because we had seen people who had arrived later than us jumping the line, I asked a Finnish guy who was already close to the desk if he would mind to get two tickets for us as well. The nice guy agreed to do that although he had his doubts of if they were going to let him do that. At 9 am we were going up in the Petronas towers´elevator!

After enjoying that wonderful view of KL we took a walk around the mall in the Petronas´ ground floor. Reading the tour guide we realized that there wasn´t anything that was really worth it to see in the city so we kept near the Petronas Towers area, taking a clandestine nap on the grass of the park avoiding mosquito bites, the hotness and the security guard´s whistle that didn´t let the people even breathe.

Around five pm, we visited the Menara tower, the third highest telecommunication tower in the world, from where we had a nice sunset and a 360° view of the KL city. After that and with a little bit of hurry we headed to the train station to take the airport express train. We were quite surprised when just after buying the tickets the guy who sold them to us  told us that our Air Asia flight would take off from another airport. We had to take a bus from the international airport (15 min) to get to the airport of the low-cost companies.

Once there and after almost 24 hour of no sleep we found ourselves a little spot in the airport where to spend the night before our 7 am flight to Siem Reap would take off.

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