We met up with Jill’s father at the airport, who had arrived a couple hours before us. He’s a cool dude, always down for an adventure. We all took a taxi to our hotel. Jill and her father stayed at the Furama Bukit Bintang and they enjoyed it. It came with a free breakfast and from what I could tell it was a really nice hotel. Sarah and I stayed right down the street at Hotel Sentral Pudu because we were a little bit cheaper. It was alright. I’d probably find a better spot next time. The Wi-Fi didn’t really reach our room so Sarah and I always had to sit by the door to get on the internet. Plus the people at the front desk weren’t always the friendliest.

We didn’t have any plans for our first night there so we met up and walked downtown. I’d say the best way to get to places is probably by taxi, but they do have some stops along their city trains. Our hotels were close enough to walk to most landmarks and hot spots. So many malls. Again I cannot stress this enough, they love shopping. Everybody is always shopping in the 10 story malls. Maybe it is because I am not a big shopper myself that I find it weird. I avoid the malls at all costs. We walked through three and we were starving so we finally decided on a place to eat. It was called La Boca – Latino Bar, in the Pavilion shopping center. It wasn’t even Malaysian food, haha. I was really excited to try some curry over there, but it would have to wait. I didn’t love it, wouldn’t go back. The Malaysian money is Malaysian ringgits and things are cheaper for sure than in America. We were roughly converting $1 to RM 4.

The main attraction of the night was the Petronas Towers. That’s one of the buildings KL is really known for. They are beautiful. We walked over to them, getting there by continuing to head in their direction. You can pay to go to the top of them (RM 85), but we just went to the base. The towers were connected to, what do you think? If you guessed another mall, you are correct, haha. It was the Suria KLCC shopping center and on the back side of the mall is a pond where they do a small colorful water show. The front of the mall was crowded with people taking photos of the towers so of course, we joined everyone. Jill’s dad has an iPhone 7 so you know we were taking the professional looking photos on that.

The next morning we took our time meeting up. Jill and her dad enjoyed their hotel’s free breakfast, while Sarah and I walked down the street to this little breakfast spot we saw on Yelp. Shocker that Yelp is in KL, but it’s in its beginning stages. Places only have like a couple reviews at most. Korea wasn’t really big on breakfast though so we were tired of doing Dunkin Doughnuts. A Toast – Breakfast & Juice Bar was super cute and tiny. The people were really nice and when I made a special request for my juice they kindly obliged. Plus when we went back the next day they remembered my specific order. Great customer service and good French toast.

The public transportation in KL was nowhere near like it was in Seoul, but we took their monorail to KL Sentral to get on a train to take us to the Batu Caves, one of the bigger tourist attractions right outside KL. It costs less than RM 3 to take the train over there. I love caves so I really enjoyed it. Also, there were little monkeys everywhere. They were a ton of them climbing everything nearby. People were feeding them and I love that kind of thing so I had to buy a bag of peanuts myself. This one monkey sees the bag in my hands and gets close to me. As I was turning on my GoPro, he snatched the whole bag from me. It happened so fast my first instinct was to snatch it right back, which I tried to do. I thought I had grabbed the bag back pretty well, but his monkey grip was too good and he held on. As soon as he could he took off with the whole bag and I was stunned. I could not believe that had just happened. I watched him eat the whole bag by himself; he didn’t even share with other monkeys. What a little devil. Never take your eyes off of the monkeys.

You have to climb like six flights of stairs to get into one of the main caves. There’s a temple in there and people go to pray and it looks like they are building more in there because workers had people carrying buckets of rocks up the stairs. There is a dress code apparently because these women at the bottom of the stairs were not allowing women with shorts on to climb the stairs. Guys were fine to wear whatever (of course), but women had to have something that covers their knees on. So we gave the women MR 5 to get a skirt and when we returned it we got MR 3 back. At first, we thought they were scamming us though. How smart would they be to just set up a scam like that on the bottom of the stairs and make bank, but there was a sign that said dress code was enforced by management. Plus it was not even $1 so no big deal if it did end up being a scam.

On the way out we stopped by the Dark Cave, which is one of the more popular caves. They were doing tours inside that one (RM 35), so of course, I wanted to do one. Jill didn’t so she and her dad went back to KL. Sarah didn’t want to ditch me so she was stuck touring the cave with me. It was pretty cool, but I wish there had been more facts or history given. It mainly focused on the crazy looking insects that live in the cave – cave spiders are creepy, let me tell ya. It lasted about 45 minutes, taking us into the cave and back out the same way. It wasn’t the best tour, but I’m glad I did it.

Sarah and I headed back into the city, took the wrong train to meet up with Jill and instead of wasting time trying to get back to the right one, we just hailed a taxi. It was extremely cheap so taking a taxi around KL may be the way to go. We couldn’t find Jill again for the rest of the day, but we wandered around the Central Market, more shopping, haha. We got some coffee and walked through Petaling Street, China Town. This is where you can haggle for cheap stuff. I am by far not the best haggler but I did get a new fanny pack for when I go to music festivals for less than $4. Seemed like a good deal to me. Sarah bought some souvenirs for her family there, too.

We spent the rest of the evening walking around famous landmarks that our map gave us directions to and then started the walk back to the hotel. We stopped at this restaurant that had curry, which I was excited to get. The chicken curry came with bones in it. So disappointing. I forgot if the food doesn’t specify that it’s boneless then it probably isn’t. After dinner, Sarah and I walked back to our hotel and called it an early night for once.

Sarah and I enjoyed breakfast at the same spot and then met up with Jill and her dad to go to the National Mosque of Malaysia. I had never been in one so I was down to check it out. Plus it was interesting because you couldn’t enter unless you were wearing the hooded robes. Something about women covering their head and upper legs. There wasn’t much to do there. Muslims come there to pray numerous times a day so it is only open to the public during nonpraying hours. It also looked like the bottom floor was used for classrooms. We just walked around took some pictures and that was it. We then walked up to the area where KL has their bird park, butterfly park, and deer park. We didn’t go into any as we decided to take a taxi to Berjaya Times Square and spend the hot afternoon indoors.

Berjaya Times Square is a massive mall and hotel. There are tons of shops, restaurants, and it even has an indoor amusement park. We had a couple of hours to spare before our plans for the night so we decided to hit up the rides. The cost was RM 51.If you don’t like rides, don’t even bother with it. If you like rides and have nothing more important to do then you could check it out. We were done with all the rides and some of them twice, in less than two hours. It worked out because Sarah and I needed to pack for Vietnam since we were going to be out late and wouldn’t have time to later. We said farewell to Jill since her and her dad were off to a different part of Malaysia in the morning.