January 13, 2020
We enjoyed breakfast at our hotel again this morning. The platter of fruit this morning had some different varieties and while it was good it has been better on other days. We basically have our fill of watermelon, pineapple, melon, dragon fruit and whatever else they decide to put out. There is cereal, lots of pastries, an omelet station and a number of hot dishes available. We’ve never left hungry!
After breakfast we made a couple of calls home and then headed out. We walked to the Kuala Lumpur convention centre that is just past the Petronas Towers and is on the other side of the KLCC gardens. The Aquaria KLCC is located beneath the convention centre. We spent a couple of hours looking at the various exhibits and tanks. The coolest part was the tunnel where you walk thru and watch the manta rays, sting rays, sharks, fish and turtles swim over and around you. The fish are actually 30% larger than they appear, which means some of them are huge! For both of us, that was the best part of the Aquarium. The fish are actually 30% larger than they appear, which means some of them are huge! There was also a column in the one area that had a number of fish that are found in the fresh water lake Kenyir that Malaysia created for electricity generation.
From the Aquaria we headed back through the convention centre to the KLCC gardens. We walked around for a bit and got some more photos of the Petronas towers and gardens. While wandering around we met a couple from Switzerland who have taken a year off from their jobs and are travelling. We chatted with them for a bit. It’s always interesting the people you meet along your travels. After we thought we could maybe get back to hotel from the one end of the park. After hiking all the way down there we decided that with all the construction and barriers we’d never find a way through so had to walk all the way back and head back our normal route. The construction here is unreal. There was lots last year but I think there is even more this year! There are cranes everywhere and buildings going up, new overpasses and detours and barricades everywhere!
We finally made it back to the hotel. We’d picked up some beer at the 7-11 on our walk back so we enjoyed that in our room and relaxed and cooled off. For supper we hiked down to the night market food area again and enjoyed supper there. We couldn’t get a Grab to get there as it was peak rush hour so we caught one back to the hotel after as we’d both had enough walking for the day. Today we managed 10.8 km of walking.
We are organizing our stuff and packing up as we head to Krabi, Thailand tomorrow!