Kuala Lumpur

Sunday 3 July 2005

We walked to the MRT at Clarke Quay and took the train to Changi airport. A quick 55 minute trip to KLIA then a two hour bus trip to our hovel (with comfortable beds) in KL. KL also vibrant but very dirty, compared with Singapore, with obvious signs of poverty - smelly drains etc. Also there is heavy vehicle pollution. The place we are staying is locked up like Fort Knox with bars on all the windows and a huge padlocked jail type metal door (not a great area) with the lock on the outside and difficult to open through the grill. The most total fire hazard I have yet seen!! Hoping for a paucity of raging conflagrations tonight.