More Kuala Lumpur

Before moving on to the Cameron Highlands we decided to go on a walk around Kuala Lumpur.  Kuala Lumpur actually means two rivers (fun fact) and that's what is in the picture below.

Pay special attention to the giant one-eyed octopus on top of the building in the background...

Here we visited a mosque, just one of the many that are all around the city.

Being a mosque we had to don some mosque appropriate gowns because we were all wearing shorts.  The weather here ranges from I'm dripping wet and all my clothes are soaked to I'm just damp all over.  The one on the far right in the picture is Dave, the one I've been traveling with.  The ones in the middle are two more French Canadians, I seem to meet lots of them.

More walking around the city...

After all that walking we were in the mood for a nice heavy lunch.  What we found was a small local Indian restaurant behind a cell phone store, through a few rooms of textile manufacturing, and up some stairs.  Oh my god.  Some of the best food on my trip, hands down best Indian food of my life.  So we all sit down and they place these giant banana leaves in front of us.  We are going to ask for a menu but it becomes quickly apparent that there is no ordering here.  A man comes with a bucket and plops a large mountain of rice in front of you and then gives you four small piles of vegetables?  Then pours some curry over your rice and brings a small plate of chicken.  I'm not to clear on what it was I was actually eating (no English spoken here) but it was amazing.

From our hostel balcony we had a mosque to the front, a Hindu temple to the side, and Chinatown behind us. Here is the temple at night.  The picture can't fully capture how much minute detail there truly was but it was a place to get lost in.

Chinatown night market!  Every night the market would come alive with food stalls and shops.  The shops would sell either sunglasses, handbags, watches, or shirts.  But so much of the same makes for some great bargaining.

After so much city life we were ready to move away from the cement and into the jungle.