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mercoledì, 05 settembre 2007
14th July – KL Day Two: The Skytrex Adventure

The alarm rang quite early in the morning.
The time for a quick shower and I run downstairs where the breakfast was served. In fact, after the first night and the first breakfast I decided that, no matter it was more expensive than a hostel, but I would have spent there even the second night. The breakfast was including a lot of food: rice, pasta, cakes, fruit, vegetables, eggs, meat... everything! So I decided I would have had a massive breakfast that would have been enough even for lunch and, partially, for dinner.
Here you can see just some of the food I ate the second morning.



After breakfast Jean came to the Ancasa Hotel to pick me up. Then we drove to the place where Deepa lives and together we went to the Skytrex Adventure Park, located in Tamam Pertanian Malaysia, Shah Alam (Selangor).
We started securing ourselves with a personal protective equipment, then we were ready to start our trekking adventure in the tropical rain forest.

The first thing was a trial circuit, where the instructor told us how to move between an attraction and the next one, and which were the procedures to follow in order to have fun safely.
Despite this circuit was not reaching a great height from the ground, it was a bit scarying at the beginning, especially when you had to jump into the nowhere, leaving yourself “falling down”.

Then it was the time of the real challenge, the real track with all the hardest trails.
We started climbing a tree reaching an height of approximately 9 metres. Then we walked through a net and reached another tree where another ladder brought us higher. We could not realise it, but we were 17 metres above the ground level, walking from a tree to another.
Jean always did this adventurous stuff in the past, so some of the trails seemed “easy” looking at him. For both me and Deepa this adventure was anyway something absolutely new, and before many attractions we were wondering “have we really to do this?”, “how can it be that we’ll reach the other hand still alive?” and things like this.
Anyway after half of the circuit we became much more confident, and we attempted all the remaining trails with no worries at all.
After this amazing adventure, which will always last in my mind, we drove back into Kuala Lumpur.
Jean went to bed (he didn’t sleep for the previous 30 hours!) and I spent the late afternoon and early evening with Deepa.
First we went back into the City centre area. We stopped our car and spent some time at the Chinatown market where we bought some dvds. Cheap stuff, it was roughly 2€ each!
Then we went out for dinner together because Jean was still sleeping. We passed close to the KL Tower and before going out from the city I also saw for the last time the traffic lights where a countdown timer indicated the time pedestrians had to cross the road before the light would have turned red.


Then I had dinner together with Deepa. She demonstrated to be a very nice girl, and even offered me the dinner. Next time she will come to Italy I will have to offer something both to her and to Jean, who eventually woke up after dinner and accompanied me to the KL Station, from where I had my train to the KL International Airport.

You can also find two videos of the morning, when we were still practising the trial and easier trails, on you tube at the following addresses.Check them out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaaEClTAyAc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXaYnWSvhQo

Postato da: DexterH46 a 23:55 | link | commenti
sport, holiday, malaysia, accomodation

lunedì, 03 settembre 2007
13th July – KL Day One: The City

On the truly first day in KL Jean brought me nearly everywhere in the city with his former car, now belonging to Deepa, who I would have met the following day.
After a visit to the square where Malaysia was declared indipendent from the UK, we went in the popular Petronas Towers area and took some pictures there. The weather was not the best one ever, anyway it wasn’t so bad, having had a sunny day would have been tremendous since we were close to the equator.



After a walk outside we went back into our car and then headed to a shopping centre.
We were looking for cheap dvds and electronic items and stuff like this. But during our walk we were astonished to see one of the biggest indoor lunapark in the entire world (in my opinion). You can have your say as well.

We skipped the lunch, but it wasn’t a problem after all we had eaten in the morning, and in the afternoon we drove outside the city, to the Abdul Aziz Shah Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque.
It was a Friday, so Muslims were overcrowding the mosques, and the same was in this one. I had the rough idea of having a look inside, but after reading the rules to observe to gain the admittance, I founf out I was breaking more than a half of them. In fact I was wearing shoes, shorts and a t-shirts. I had to be without shoes, with long pants and long sleeves in the shirt. So no way for me to get in! Anyway we could admire the beautiful building from the outside, and it has to be said that it is really nice... unusual for the area where it is, but definitely impressive.


On the way back we were so late that running in the car was not enough, so Jean took a shortcut to give the car back in time to Deepa while I took the monorail to reach the area of my hotel and Chinatown. The monorail is very useful in this crazily trafficated city. At a certain time it becomes impossible to go around in a car, and even if public transportation is overcrowded, it remains the only way to avoid traffic congestions.
The same night I met Jean again and we went out for dinner to have a relaxing chat before going to bed in time to be ready the following morning for the Skytrex Adventure...

Postato da: DexterH46 a 11:46 | link | commenti (2)
holiday, malaysia

domenica, 02 settembre 2007
12th July – Welcome to KL

After 8 hours on the plane, where I met a guy from Malaysia who was working in Australia, I landed in KL Airport, which actually is so far away from KL (= Kuala Lumpur) that it took me half an hour on a train to get into the Malaysian capital.
Luckily for me, my friend Jean from France was waiting for me at the airport.
Then we went for a hotel in the city. Since we were in Malaysia, everything was cheaper so Jean suggested me a hotel rather than a hostel and I agreed with him, for the first night at least.
We took a cab, then another one, and I finally ended in the Ancasa Hotel near Pasar Seni monorail station.



I booked my room for the night, spending a bit more than what I spent to live in a hostel in Australia. But this time I didn’t have to share my room (unless I wanted to), I had my own bathroom, my own bottle of water, tv, double bed, wardrobe, newspaper in the morning, and so on. Everything mine. To relax a bit more.
This was my room.



Postato da: DexterH46 a 22:32 | link | commenti
holiday, malaysia, accomodation, journey/flight