No Kualas or Umpa Lumpurs

Arriving in KL via the bus was a bit of an experience, I didnt get a whole lot of sleep. Every 5 mins the bus seemed to stop, switch the lights on wait till it had awoken all on the bus and then drive off.
We arrived at about 5:30am and after a bit of going in the wrong direction I found the KL train system. The trains cover most of the city centre but have this annoying habit of not being very well connected to one another. For example my first trip, I bought a ticket - I was hoping to my final destination but was told that the tickets dont work cross metro systems. So jumped on the train and away we went. Arrived at the changeover station had a 5min walk so that one found the station and two to get to it.

My hostel had received some good reviews and after stopping off at the only place that was open for food, McDonalds (3rd of trip) I went in search of the guesthouse. After about 40mins of walking down the street that the hostel was supposed to on. I realised that the hostel had closed down or something to that effect, very strange as the hostel said that it had rooms for the next few days. Anyway I wandered across the road and set myself up in the Green Hut Hostel. Pretty nicely done up, a strange layout but had everything you need.

KL is caught up like everywhere else in World Cup fever and there are Nike booths everywhere. Now this is one thing that annoyed me but why dont we get these little promo booths in our cities. They are dotted around the city each country has one and its just very cool.

The stand is playing a series of video clips following the Brazillian team and also shows Thierry getting involved in a Paris street football match... its brillant. The best thing is that its hosted by Mr Eric Cantona.

KL isnt that big, well not on the surface, you can wander around the areas pretty easily and its not so hot that its uncomfortable doing it either.

I found some great food places in the Golden Triangle Shopping Centre which is next to the Imbi monorail station.... oh and speaking of monorail systems its highly likely that Matt Groening got his idea of the Simpsons monorail episode from KL. The monorail is ok though it does feel a little dodgy at times especially when going round the corners, it tilts into the corner but it feels like its an after thought something that the government thought would be "cool".

Saying that KL is cool, I really liked the place easy to get around and has this brillant IMAX cinema where they played Marvellous Destination a film produced and narrated by Tom Hanks which allows you to see what it would be like to walk on the moon. Its brillantly done and seems to be showing on other IMAX cinemas such as Bradford, UK - take a look.

The KL Twin Towers are impressive from the outside, after a bit of a late night watching the football we got up (as you have to as the tickets are free but on first come, first served basis) and managed to get a ticket for all of us. These towers are the tallest in the world, some 452m and up in the middle at abou 170m is the Skybridge which connects the two towers together.

The view from the Skybridge is pretty good but not as spectacular as I was hoping, I just wonder if its just that I am used to these sightseeing things now. However next year will be a bit different they are planning on allowing you to Bungee Jump from the bridge, that will be very cool!