The Hype About Singapore Was A Very Big Let Down

When we told people was going to Singapore, everyone seemed to give the place loads of hype. And how it was clean and all that shit.

Yes it was clean well, there was no chewing gum (as this has been banned) but the place wasn't as good as people told us it would be.

Anyway as we had little money, we decided to go to a cheap hotel. We was told to go to Hotel 81 and they would look after us. So off we went in search of one of one the hotels. We found one i forget what the name of it was called. And they quoted us for 5days £375. Yes thats right £375. That would of been a big blow budget for Singapore.

The fella behind the desk asked us if this price was ok, we looked at each other and said we couldn't afford this not even one night. He told us not to worry and picked up the telephone. Thinking he was calling a customer we pick up our bags and began to walk out. The man was shouting for us to stop as he was actually on the phone to another Hotel 81. He said that there is room in their hollywood hotel.

Me being me thought there was a place called Hollywood, but I thought wrong. It was the name of the hotel and the rooms had themes to them like you could have a cave room or a space room ect. We had the basic room, which was right at the top of the hotel. This came to £130 for 5days. I guess we could of got it cheaper but we didn't book in advance as we kept changing the dates of when we was meant to get here.

We went out to search for something good. We found out that Tourist could get a cheaper rated transport card. This made travel a whole lot cheaper. (If you ever go to Singapore ask for a tourist card at city hall or the airport).

If Singapore wasn't expensive then I guess I would of enjoyed it a bit more, but the fact you had to pay for everything was a bit OTT. Here's a few photo's we took.

A War Memorial

Hey Conrad We seen this and thought of you!
Think you may need to click on the photo to see it Dan!

The amazing subways.
I did have a photo of some of the break dancers in here
but gosh knows where its gone?

One of the things we wanted to do whilst we was here was to go on the night safari. Shame I didn't take my better camera with us on this round the planet trip as i would of come in handy on this safari.
We wasn't allowed to take photo's with the flashes on. We did try our best mind.

One of Aimee's fav kodak moments.

Yet again Aimee pushed the kids off so she could have a go at mouting the Zebra.
Zebra or Zeebra?
How do you say it?

10 second timer

You might of noticed some photo's was in the day light and some was in the night time. We got on the tram just before dusk.

Kuala Lumpur - The 'ps' chapter

How could I forget to write about the 'Batu Caves'. This place is a must if you ever go to KL. Although be prepared to

1. Climb the 272 stairs that take you to the cave
   and
2. be attacked by little devil monkeys

This cave is religious Hindu cave.  A very beautiful cave if I may add.

The golden statue is Murugan and to the left
of Murugan you can see the stair case to the cave.

Thought we might aswell get a photo
before we walk up them stairs.

Now I know where the term
Cheeky Monkey
Comes from

The view from the top

A devil monkey

Inside the cave, You can see there are more
stairs on the other side of the cave

Murugan
Standing there in all beauty

This cave would of been hectic if we hadn't of got their early enough.

When you got to the bottom of the stairs, most people was leaving but we actually found another cave which told a story, but we have no idea what it all meant. And there was no guide who spoke English. Shame really. Or is that us English folk being ignorant?

So here's a few shots of the Ramyana Cave

The sign post we noticed

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my mums feet

This is Aimee's best photo taken to date.
Click on it to see it in full

Kuala Lumpur - The Third and final Chapter

This chapter is all about the things that didn't fall into the first and second chapter.

Food and Drink
We all should know by now Aimee and Craig love food. So here's some of the food we ate. And I can say Aimee learned how to use chop sticks.

Some of the best chicken noodles in town

THE BEST TANDOORI CHICKEN AND NAAN

Could of tasted a bit more chocolatey.
Bit bland. Poor cake coffee shop.

Just one of the stalls on Petaling Street

We also found that poo tasted quite nice, to drink.

Cars.
If you know me and Craig personally, you will know that we drive a Daihatsu. We found out that some of the young kids in KL drove this car and was cool to drive it.  It was so cool they kitted the cars.

Everyone meet our DAX's sister

And this is DAX's rebellious little brother

Random shiz

This is how people said my name.
They thought I was named after a noodle.

Kuala Lumpur - The Second Chapter

First off before I start to babble on about Kuala Lumpur, we would like to apologize for being crap at keeping this blog up to date. For now we will blame it on the netbook we use. As we have had to keep installing the OS system as it keeps dying on us.

So here goes.
The second chapter of the Busy Town Of KL.

This place is pretty god damn good. I (Aimee) would actually consider going there again but for longer. Maybe see if we could get a working visa for there? It will be worth a try wouldn't it?
Anyway after the buildings we went to see we decided to see what other stuff this concrete jungle had to offer. He found the KLCC Aquarium and spent the afternoon in there. When we got there the que was massive and was about to walk away until we seen the fast track que. As we had the metro/bus/train prepaid tickets we could actually use the fast track as the pre-paid card was for all differnt companies other than transport. We could use it at burger king, KLCC, nando's ect.

So we used the ticket to get into the aquarium. First tank we came across was the Paraná tank. Oh boy did them things look fierce.  

They really don't look all that on this photo really do they?

 We then noticed a child's touch and feel tank. Yes so me and the Newt's went straight over to touch and feel the fish they had in the tank.

Star Fish

Shark

Shark again

There was a sea cucumber but that just looked like a big turd, which kind of put me off from touching it. I began to feel like a big kid in this part of the Aquarium. As there was a tunnel children could crawl up and poke their head out of a glass thing to see the otters closer.
And I did what I had to and pushed the kids out of the way so I could have a go. (I didn't really push the kids there was no one else there.)

Aimee being a kid.
' Aww friends Otter friends'

This is the litter feller who tried to hump the lady otter right in front of my face.

This next photo is an animal i wouldn't ever go near, the wild. Never Ever Ever Ever. This bad boy could kill me with one shock. Yes it's electric I'm glad there was glass between us to.

You can't imagine this happy looking creature killed Steve Irwin could you?
[this is not the actual one]

Craig and the shark

Aimee and the turtle.

 We would of had more photo's of the us going through the tunnel but there was a foreign man who insisted of following they way we pointed our camera. We had more photo's of him than the fish. *DAMN YOU FREAK*

After The Aquarium we headed to the Reggae Bar, in china town for a nice cold drink and pizza. And strangely enough we bumped into a work pal Aimee used to work with as SBC a few years back.

Josephine and Aimee in KL 2010

The Reggae bar we was in had some very interesting picture's and signs.

In the next chapter of KL we will talk about food, and other shit.

Kuala Lumpur - The first Chapter

All in all we spent 15 days in Kuala Lumpur (KL). We stayed in China Town (Petaling Street) for the majority of our stay. China town was such a lively place to stay. Each morning stall sellers would set up their stalls at around 10am and then spend 12 hours selling their goods then at 10.05pm their stalls was taken down and no one could be seen just traveler's.

Every single day we was asked if we wanted to buy a DVD, or a purse or a bag. Every day they got the same answer. No!


Kuala Lumpur is an exciting city, there is so much to do. But you just have to search for it. On our first day we actually did nothing yes zilch.  As we had no sleep the night before as our plane set off from Phucket at 5am so we had to be at the airport for 2am. Thinking about it now we could of actually saved ourselves a bit of cash by not booking a room that night in the hotel we stayed at.

Around 3pm we went to search for Nikki and Ross (the pals we met when traveling through Thailand) turns out we was too hostels away from them. They had the nice hostel we had the dingy one with no windows in our room. We went out for dinner as they was heading to the train station to catch a train to Singapore, we had dinner and then said our good bye's for a final time. (This time it was actually the last time we would see them until we went back to England)

Petronas Towers During the day

Our second day was the day we went out and explored what KL had to offer us. We stumbled up on the Petronas Towers. These bad boy towers stood at 451.9 metre's (1482.6 feet). They are currently the worlds tallest set of twin towers. There are 88 floors in each towers, the public can que for one of the 1000's of tickets they give out free to go up the towers. But you are only allowed up to the 41st floor on the sky bridge. We didn't go up the towers as we was too lazy to get out of bed to get one of the free tickets.

We did go take some photo's of us at the bottom of the tower, and also did some shopping in the mall which is located under neath the towers.

Petronas Towers During the evening

We went to see another tall building called the KL tower. This tower looks taller than the Petronas towers but its not. It appears to be taller but the KL tower is built upon a hill. The KL tower is 421 meters high and only has 6 floors.

That's enough of tall buildings. Catch ya later