Monday, July 17, 2006
Our Australia blog is now available.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Farewell Kuala Lumpur
Strange how its always the little things you miss when your away for so long.. and they are usually food related.
Worlds Tallest buildings...
Monday, June 19, 2006
Petronas Towers
Although we were only passing through Kuala Lumpur it would have been a wasted opportunity if we had have missed their twin towers.
They were a lot more shiney than we had imagined. Sadly the building was closed so we could not go to the top. But heck, we've been to the top of so many of these "world tallest" buildings we kinda didn't need to.
The buildings and the waterfall grounds outside were really impressive. The towers were damn difficult to get a full shot photograph of which was confirmed by pretty much every Kuala Lumpur travel brochure we have seen (they also crop off most of the buildings).
The Petronas Twin Towers were the tallest buildings in the world from April 15th, 1996 until October 17th, 2003 when Taipei 101 (Financial Center) was topped out at 508m (1676ft).
Egyptian Mall
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Holiday Inn - Glenmarie
The Holiday Inn we stayed in was like a fortress. They had these huge fans hanging from the roof -very unique. There were loads of sections for Paul to get lost in too (and he did, touring almost the entire hotel instead of just turning around and walking through a door).
Our room view...was fab, a full view of the in house golf course.
We felt we were back home in the lap of luxury - as our Tokyo hotel sucked.. worst of our trip.
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Cabbie Con
Yeah here also the usual scam cab drivers. Leaving the airport we had crowds of cab drivers trying to wave us down, all offering a fare that was over 10 times more than it should be. They will use such exuses as:
"But I have to cover my return costs"(which cab doesn't, it's a resort unlike the airport which is out of the way).
"It's a limosine service"(a mercedes or sometimes just a black cab).
"Everyone else will charge the same"(yeah that's cos they are all ripping people off too).
We found that if you go outside the airport you can get a cab on the meter(apparently these cabs are breaking the law whereas the rip off guys upstairs are completely above board).