Malaysia Day 1

Well, I woke up early--around 5am. I met Jacob at the subway that takes us to the airport. It was surprisingly busy for 6am on a Saturday morning. We got to the airport around 7 and checked in. The guy at the desk informed us our flight had a stop in Taiwan, but we could be switched to a little bit later flight that went directly to Hong Kong (and we would still arrive in time for our connection). We decided we would take that flight. After we checked in, we went to go exchange our money.

Malaysian Money!!

Then, a sort of long line to get through security, but it moved rather quickly. We had to take the shuttle to our terminal and then we just hung out and waited. Unfortunately, Jacob woke up with a bit of a cold the day before (his roommate was sick) and not feeling the greatest. We finally boarded and then...Jacob's bad traveling luck rubbed off on this trip. Our plane left the boarding place and we started on the runway, but then we sat for a little bit. And then there was an announcement that we had a minor electrical problem (or something like that) and we needed to go back. So, we were about an hour or so delayed. I slept a little bit and watched a movie. We still made it to Hong Kong with plenty of time for our connection. When we arrived in Hong Kong, we went to a restaurant there for a snack. Then, it was time to board. Already in Hong Kong, it was much warmer! From Hong Kong to Malaysia, our flight had no hiccups. We were served a meal and we landed on time.

Our plane

Flying into Hong Kong!

We found the KLIA (an airport shuttle) that runs from the airport to KL (Kuala Lumpur) Sentral (the main "central" station in town) and made the shuttle/train just in time. It took about 30 minutes. When we arrived at KL Sentral, we looked for a taxi. One taxi told us it would be 50MYR (Malaysian Ringgits) which is about $17 (1USD~3MYR). Jacob's friend, Bernard told us that we should expect around 30MYR for an average taxi ride. I'm so glad we knew that. We told the driver no thanks and looked for another taxi. We found a blue metered taxi and took that. It was about 24MYR, but Jacob tipped the driver and we paid 30 total. On the ride, we passed the Petronas Towers. They were beautiful.

Train ticket

Finally, we arrived to our hotel, The Impiana KLCC. It was quite nice. The room was pretty spacious but we didn't really have a view of the towers. Standing on the far right side of the window ducking down, I could juuuuust make out the top part of one of the towers. Anyway, we settled in a bit and checked out the cool infinity pool (it was on the same floor). Then we took the above street walkway that connected our hotel to both the Towers and a shopping complex called the Pavilion) to the Pavilion to find dinner. We were a bit worried because it was already going on 10, but there were plenty of restaurants open around the Pavilion, even though the mall was closed at 10. We found a little pub that served sandwiches. We walked around the Pavilion (the outside) and looked at the cool decorations for the upcoming Chinese New Years. Unfortunately, we didn't notice the sign that the walkway closed at 11, and so we had to walk on the streets. It was easy enough though, just look up and make sure we are following the bridge above us! It was maybe a 5-10 minute walk back to our hotel and then we called it a night!

Hotel Room

Nice Bathroom

Yummy veggie sandwich