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Kuala Lumpur - Sickness & City tour

Once arriving to Malaysia and discovering that I had 90 days in the country with no visa i could tell that i was going to enjoy it much more than my time i just had in Bangkok

Malaysia seemed to have a really god transit system. I took the train from the airport right into the center of town, all of the public transit seems to be super clean and almost sterile.


Once i got to downtown China town I found my hostel and checked in and then went and found some food. Wandering around the streets they were super busy and since I was feeling pretty tired after a day of traveling i found a restaurant where i had a good seat for people watching. I noticed that there seemed to be a lot more local people that were from different countries around like world like India, China and places like the Middle East and South America. Also the time i was there i noticed a lot of what seemed like high school kids who were glad to discover that they could buy cigarettes without getting ID'd i guess so they were all running around smoking and gossiping with eachother.
I headed back to my room and had a nice sleep.
Next day i woke up and had some toast and jam then i went to meet up with one of my friends that i met in Vietnam for a bit. I was planning to spend the day with her but my stomach really wasnt feeling good so i decided to head back. Once i got back to my room i was glad i decided to head back because it only got worse for there. I spent the day lying in my bed with what felt like a sword sticking in my stomach. Every time i moved it made it hurt more, and staying still was making my joints and muscles get sore too. After a hours and passing out at some point i woke up to the guy who works at the hostel was preforming his evening prayers beside my bed. I gathered the strength to walk across the street to find some liquids at 7/11 and then went back to bed. I was feeling better by morning so not sure what that  whole episode was but im glad its over.
Next day i decided to do the KL Hop on Hop off tour which should cover most of the tourist sites.

First stop was Little India. Wasnt very impressed with that,  just some Indian restaurants and hotels with Indian names.


There were a couple other places like the national museum, birdpark, parliament building and other stuff. Most of which so expensive i didnt go in.

I didnt get to go up the Petronas Twin Tower but got some good photos. Also there is a really nice mall underneath where i spent some time in.


Lots of things were decorated for Chinese new year


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