KL

We arrived at the airport 5hours early. That is one of the things I'll probably never learn. I don't want anything to go wrong and plan a lot of time for errors and then it all works. The only times things don't work out is when I'm running late. However we had a lot of time at the airport to relax, spend our last dollars on ice-cream and hot chocolate and look around the duty free shops.
The flight was OK. 8 hours in the middle row but with a spare seat next to us so that Bekki could lie down. We were already lightly dressed because of the tropical temperatures awaiting us  and hadn't thought of the air-conditioning... It was freezing.
We touched down at about 4.30am, had to get into KL which is 75km from the airport and check in at our hostel at 1pm. The train from the airport only took surprising 39 minutes which meant that we only had a "few" more hours (7) to wait before we could sink into our bed. The city was still sleeping when we reached the central station so we tried to sleep on the benches to kill time. A little later wandered around to find the right train and finally got to the hostel at 10 o'clock where we could leave our bags and had a cup of tea.
We went for another walk exploring the main shopping street before we could occupy our room. The main road was packed with cheap convenient stores, restaurants, massage rooms and plazas (huge indoor areas with hundreds of stands selling anything you (don't) need) and turned, further down the street, into a quite modern shopping area. Because I'd forgotten all of my T-shirts I bought 3 new shirts for only 15 Ringgit each (about 5 AUD). We had Chinese food for lunch which wasn't the best we've ever had and returned to our hostel to finally check in.
We didn't do much in the afternoon due to our lack of sleep and the warm temperatures. I sweated from only sitting around and it didn't get better over the next days.There is no escaping the heat when you're outside and I've never been so thankful for having a fan in my room.
We spent the next days strolling around the city, exploring the main tourist attractions. We went to the "Batu caves" a little bit out of the city. They are huge caves in which the Hindu had built their temples. The size of the main cave is breathtaking. A stairway out of at least  1000 steps... led up to it and we weren't able to capture the whole size of it with our camera. There is also a massive golden statue in front of the steps, the biggest statue in Malaysia. On the way up you can see monkeys raiding the bins and trying to eat everything on the ground.

On our way back we we walked through China-Town. You really need to like it to go there again. The streets are packed with people, food carts, stands selling cheap stuff they bought for even cheaper prices in Thailand and waste. It is loud, warm and it smells horrible. It was worth experiencing something like that but I couldn't stand it.
We found this really nice Indian place right around the corner of our hostel that served its rice on a banana leaf. They put the leaf on the table in front of you and served 4 different curries, rice with a sauce and rice chips for under 1.5 AUD. And they make a wonderful mango juice! We went there twice because we loved it.

The next day we went to the lake garden which seemed to be the only really green place in the city.They have the worlds largest birdhouse, a huge free-fly area with lots of birds and a too expensive entrance fee. Instead we visited the butterfly park which turned out to be a nice and quiet but not very spectacular place. On our way back we had a look at the central market, jet another of those markets, only a bit more expensive and with some stands with beautiful woodwork, colorful materials and accessories.
Ahhh yeah... ahm, Bekki cut my hair again. I wanted to try something different than the usual long and messy so we trimmed it a bit; and now it's shorter and messy. It's not too short though and it doesn't show any system, longer here, short there, but I recon it looks OK. It also has more of a useful, than a stylish reason because it was sooooooo hot under it.

All in all KL isn't the most exciting city in the world and certainly not a nice place to live in. The traffic is mental. Everyone seems to do whatever he wants, it's loud and it stinks but somehow it works.The air is full of a smog mixed together out of traffic exhaust and waste which is omnipresent. But still, even the big mess it appears to be on the first sight, KL has it's charm.
You hear that most South-East-Asian cities are quite similar and KL is one of the calmer places (and we thought it was rough) but it's definitely worth experiencing it once in a lifetime.
Our hostel was a pretty run down house near all the central places and had a really nice flair. The staff was super friendly, always with a word of advice and we met a lot of different people there. Mainly travelers, everyone with their own interesting story, but also people from there who lived in that place or just hung out there in the evenings. It's a place I can definitely recommend to you when you plan on going to KL.
At this moment (I was writing this, not uploading it) I'm on KL's smaller airport waiting for our plane, which is an hour late, to Medan, Indonesia. We have great plans for our stay there but I'll tell you about them after they've become even better because we've realized them.