KUALA LUMPUR

I'm so thankful to Allah S.W.T that my pray was done by Allah one by one, one of it is going abroad though it's only in South East Asia : Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
I was here in KL and Singapore with my friend, Nisa. She's very cooperate girl. What a great experience we had !
But even though so many people traveled there, still I want to share all my experience while I was in KL and Singapore.
Information we got from internet were completes and we've print it out on our notes.
With the Air Asia tickets, hotel voucher, passport, notes, ringgit money, and schedules on our hands, we were READY to GO !


First Day

We were very glad touching my feet in this KL's airport. " Horray ! I'm in KL !" I said so :D
We were having Air Asia flight that was booked 6 months before our departure, you know, as a backpacker traveler, we had to find a cheap flight, and we were very thankful to Air Asia.
Too bad I was not taking its interior pictures, but I have the exterior, here it was:

KL Airport Terminal 3

Getting out of the airport building at 16.30 KL's time, we straight forward looking for Air Asia airport bus, direct to KL Sentral, where all the public mass transports were all pointed together.
We were waiting for half an hour at Air Asia airport bus, then finally the bus was showed up, and we were straight get on there and find our best seat.
One hour later, we were in KL Sentral, and based on schedule we've made, we have to find LRT going to Masjid Jamek; our hotel was 10 minutes walk form Masjid Jamek station.

LRT Station KL Sentral

KL Sentral

 We stayed in Chill In Hotel, Yap Ah Loy Road 5, Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur. Nice hotel, with Indians as a receptionist.
We booked our hotel 2 weeks before our departure, we got cheap discount from Agoda.com , and this is where we bought our hotel voucher : http://www.agoda.web.id/asia/malaysia/kuala_lumpur/chill_inn.html
After check in, had our private room (but shared bathroom), then had a shower, we went out to seek for dinner.
From our notes, we found out that our hotel was near Central Market, we though that it would be easy to find small restaurants there.
Central Market was 5 minutes walk from our hotel. It was really ethnic market, real Melayu, many artifacts, and so on. Here you can see Central Market below.

There were many ethnic stalls, restaurants, and food stall stood around Central Market, but most of them were not halal. There was also KFC, but we said no to KFC, we should find something real Melayu. We kept walking and found several halal restaurant and we also see the price for each menu. Hahahahaaaa.... since we had a small budget, so we had to find another cheap one :D
Since the market was closed at 9.00 pm, so we first having sight seeing and window shopping there. We were not plan to buy anything because from the info we got, we got cheaper price for souvenirs if we bought in Petaling Street market ( we discuss it later).
Finally; pleased with our window shopping, we walk outside the market and we saw a medium restaurant, it was indian restaurant, and the price made us happy ! Cheap ! Imagine, a glass of hot tarik tea was only 1,2 RM similar to Rp. 3500,00 , hahahahahaaaaa..... that was the cheapest menu in that restaurant. Another cheap menu was Roti Canai; only 1,5 RM :D
What a heaven. Then we bought tarik tea and roti canai for dinner. Nice !
The restaurant's name was Restoran Yusoof and Zakhir as seen below.

Indian Restaurant

And these were the roti canai with lamb curry and tarik tea :D

Roti Canai with Lamb Curry

Hot Tarik Tea

There were many menus of Roti Canai, and we should go back here again and again :D
Tired of this first day, we went to our hotel to have a good night sleep :D

Second Day
We planned to go to Batu Caves and I-City on the second day. The Batu Cave was outside KL city, so we have to take a commuter train there. Commuter train is a state owned public train, so we had to go to KL Train Station, that was 5 minutes trip by LRT.

FYI, LRT is a light rapid transit that are widely service around KL over the road of KL.

LRT Over The Highway

Back to laptop (Tukul style).... after having fast self-serviced breakfast in our hotel, we went to 7Eleven across our hotel to buy mineral water (here in KL, mineral water is cheap, same with what we have in Jakarta), then we walk to Masjid Jamek station to get on KL train station.
We had to wait for half an hour to wait for the commuter train in KL station. This commuter train had only few train, not like LRT that had many crafts.
The KL stasion was an old building like what we have in Jakarta old train station. But this KL station was absolutely very very very clean and free of cigarette smoke !

Old KL Train Station

 The trip to Batu Cave take 1 hour by train, and we saw many Indians inside the train.
Then finally we got of to Batu Cave station. We have to walk only 10 minute to Batu Cave. Just follow the path, the people, and the direction stated in the station's wall.

If you want to know about Batu Cave completely, then you can see this link : http://www.malaysiasite.nl/batucaveseng.htm

We have to walk several minutes and we saw a big green statue like the picture below.

Hanoman

 And then we walk in front of a temple where there was an Indian's wedding accidentally. We should not lose this opportunity watching this occasion.

Indian's Wedding

Finished taking pictures of the temple  and the Indian's wedding, we went to the caves. Below the stone hill, there were so many pigeons surrounded their food spread by the monks, and they were not afraid to human.

Pigeons

The weather was very hot and sun shined very bright with the clear sky above. Perfect time to have a picnic ! :D

It was amazing natural stone where the caves inside this stone hill. We had to climb hundreds of steps to go to the caves inside that hill.

On Top of The Last Step

And finally, we were inside the huge caves. The interior was so high above us. It was just too amazing to see.

Inside The Cave. Far away, to the last cave, there were many monkey asking for food. If you're afraid of those mongkey, please, do not go up there :D

One of The Small Temple

There were also many temples inside the this huge cave. And many Indians went here to celebrate something.

Then, we had many pictures from this huge caves. Satisfied taking pictures, we went down the stairs and we forgot all the tiredness. Climbing down the stairs was much easier than climbing up those steps :D

It was almost 13.00 pm when we touch our feet down the stairs. We looked for restaurant immediately since our tummy was calling us. Once again, we met Indian restaurant again. We enter the restaurant and we order Indians food that was quite cheap. But the taste was real Indians. I didn't enjoy it, but we had to eat it up because we had to continue our journey to I-City.

We should take city bus to I-City. So we had to go to KL Sentral first to catch the city bus. So, we went back to Batu Cave station to go to KL Sentral.

We didn't know the way or what bus number going to I-City. So we had to ask many people and officers at KL Sentral. Luckily, the officers were good persons to be asked, and we straight got our city bus. We had to change twice to the I-City. Quite confusing, but we finally at I-City before dark. So we had time to do Dhuhur and Ashar together in a small masjid near the I-City park.

I-City is a technology park located on the outskirts of Shah Alam. At night the place comes alive with an amazing forest of man-made trees brightly illuminated with millions of colourfull LED lights.

They call this the City of Digital Lights, and for children it is a fairytale wonderland and even for young women like us the effect is very impressive. There is no entrance fee to see the City of Digital Lights.

Artifial Tree inside The Park

Artifcial Tree

Artificial Animals

Those tree and animals were illuminated from a bulb in every leaf on its tree. I didn't know how they were very neatly put those bulbs inside it.

The Detail of A Leaf

We were very satisfied taking pictures and enjoy the beauty of this park. But we had to got out of this park soon. Before 20.00 , we got out to catch the bus going back to KL Sentral. We had to wait half an hour for the bus, and be in KL Sentral at 21.30 , and catch the LRT to Central Market because we want to eat another canai at Yusoof restaurant.

Roti Canai with Red Onion

 I didn't like canai with red onion, but my friend; Nisa did. I ate tisu bread that night.

Roti Tisu eat with Lamb Curry

End of the second day, we went back to our hotel on foot from Yusoof restaurant. The clock showed at 22.30 , it was rather late to the hotel. But the city was peaceful and safe. We had a quick bath and go laid down our back to our cozy bed.

Third Day

On the third day, we went to Petronas and its surrounding, like Bukit Bintang and Ain Arabia. We recognize that there would be a long city walk, so we got to set up ready.

We went to Petronas using LRT , just a direct way from Masjid Jamek station to KLCC station. Just a few minutes trip and we were at Petronas.

How beautiful these two twin buildings. We saw it in amazed. We took many picture of it, as many as we could. Hahahaha.... 

The tourists might visit the bridge that laid between the two towers, but when we were there, it was still under-construction, so we had to get a little bit disappointed about it, and we had to be satisfied enough taking picture the outer buildings. Also. we didn't forget to take picture in front of the Suria Mall.

We were there almost one hour, and we had to move on another target : Bukit Bintang. And we start moving  our feet going to Bukit Bintang. We saw many interesting view and clean city and wide pedestrian ways to Bukit Bintang, so we were not so tired. 

Monorail Train On The Way To Bukit Bintang

Bukit Bintang is well-known as the main branded stores in Kuala Lumpur. There are many boutiques with antiques building-shaped to attract the tourists.