... home again, home again, jiggety jig!

We did our normal city trick in KL. Namely, begin with an outline plan, start walking, change plans a couple of times and by the end of the day we have covered a lot of ground and seen most of what we wanted to see. Of course finding street side snacks and cafes en route is par for the course. We decided not to join the hordes in going up the Petronas Towers, once the tallest building in the world but rather the Menara KL Tower, the 5th largest communications tower in the world, figuring that at least we'd have something impressive to look at from 300m up in the sky. It gave us a good idea of the layout of the city too. At the bottom of the tower they have set up a zip line (about 30 m up and 70 m long) which Becca wanted to go on, so she did...not once but twice! She was very brave and loved it. After the tower the hunt was on for coffee to have with our doughnuts we'd bought from a street vendor. Moving into the business district that wasn't too hard to find. We then headed off to Chinatown with a little, well more than little, detour into Little India as we got a bit lost for a while. In Chinatown we also walked through the Central Market which was nicely done even for us non-shoppers. We then wasted some time trying to find a bus to the Butterfly Park. The public transport system in KL is very disjointed with bits belonging to different companies and no real co-ordination at all. Needless to say, we gave up and just walked there. It was a toss up between the limestone caves on the outskirts of the city or the butterflies in the Lake Gardens precinct: the butterflies prevailed.

Another longish walk back to catch the monorail back to Bukit Bintang where we were staying. We ended up in the Pavilion, a massive shopping centre that makes Hyde Park and Sandton shopping centres look a bit "provincial", on the hunt for supper. Its food court was extensive and we were spoilt for choice. All types of Asian and western cuisines were catered for.

The next morning we again bought our joghurt and juices from Carrefours to supplement the fruit and toast provided by our guesthouse. Packed our bags and started our long homeward trek. This consisted of: monorail to KL Sentral, catch airport bus to KLIA, fly to Hong Kong, transfer to HK departures and then wait 6 hrs for our late night flight to JNB.

Our flights both arrived at their destinations early so we landed at OR Tambo just after 6 o clock yesterday morning. By the time we'd fetched bags, cleared immigration and customs and had a nice cup of coffee, our friend Jane had arrived through the chilly morning mist to pick us up. Hooray!

Now it is just the jet lag to deal with and re-acclimatising to winter...brrrrrr!
Oh yes ...and also hopefully start planning another trip! Who knows when and who knows where to? But what we do know is that there is loads more to see and experience in this beautiful world of ours.

For now, the bushcats rest!