Batu Caves & City sightseeing in KL

 In total we spent 3 days in KL, though the first day was a bit affected by the arrival in the middle of the night. Before going to KL I’d heard from several people that you don’t need to spend many days there because there is not that much to see – and it was true. I’d say that 3 to 4 days are enough. In the first morning we planned to leave quite early but we all felt so tired that we didn’t manage to get up as planned. After we finally got up, we took the train to Batu Caves which is a monkey park with some bat caves. There were quite many tourists besides us. You could feed the monkeys there and they were completely free to play and jump around the area. After a tour in the monkey park, we took a 45-minute guided tour in the ‘Black Cave’ that was the biggest of the caves. The tour did cost 35 RMY (ca. 9€). The guide explained us about the cave’s history, bates living there and the very rare spider species you can find there too.

In the early evening we got back to KL and we went to take a look at the Petronas Towers. If you want to go to the observation area and visit the towers, you have to be there at 8.00am as they allow only a maximum of 1.000 people to visit the towers daily. However, to have a better view at the city I’d recommend to go to the KL Tower which is higher and provides a nice view at the Petronas Towers and the rest of the city.

On our last day we visited Chinatown shopping street called Petaling Street. It was funny since knowing the markets in Shanghai, they had pretty much exactly the same items on display in KL too.. And it seems to be in every Chinatown  market the same issue that if you want to buy something, you have to bargain unless you want to pay way too much. After eating in Chinatown we continued by walking to the Merdeka Square. On the way there wo shortly stopped at one Temple we had already walked by the other day but it was closed then. Around the square there are many of governmental buildings and on the one end of the square there was probably the world’s highest flagpole. We also visited the KL museum where you can see some pictures and stories of the city’s development. Before returning to the hostel, we walked across Little India. It was actually quite big in KL and had many small shops and restaurants. We spent our last evening at the hostel before taking the night bus to Mersing to catch the ferry to Tioman Islands.