We’ve been enjoying our time in KL. We have explored the various parks and playgrounds and we did a bus tour of the city. We were expecting an open top bus with commentary as per the UK but all the buses bar one were completely enclosed and there wasn’t a commentary! Made it rather less interesting than it might have been….but we used it to go back to the KLCC water play (with swimming costumes this time!) which the kids thoroughly enjoyed. We have been entertained by the apparently full time presence of two police officers whose only role appears to be to whistle at anyone who tries to enter the water area with shoes on! They take it very seriously…..
We have been finding that even somewhere as multicultural as KL Ramadan causes some challenges for us. We walked home through the Kl city walk looking for tea. Loads of restaurants but none of them open. Eventually we gave up and went back to an unhopeful looking one, open but deserted. It turned out to be a brilliant choice. They had boardgames to play while we waited, a waiter in love with Susie and delicious Indian food, all for less than £10. We were sad to leave.
Yesterday Emma had our first stomach upset. I can’t quite believe that we had made it very nearly halfway through our trip without issue, we must have cast iron stomachs. We think Emma’s was probably brough on by her falling over into what appeared to be an open sewer the day before. Although we cleaned her up and antibacterial gelled her, it seems some germ escaped our efforts. Anyway, Emma recovered within a few hours but by that point we’d already made the decision to keep her at the hotel for the day with Phil while I took Luke and Susie to an indoor play centre to keep them occupied and away from any potential germs. Much fun was had!
In the evening we decided to venture to a hawker market slightly out of the centre with great online reviews. It’s called Suzi’s corner which entertained our Susie! Turned out no taxi driver had any idea where it was. The first taxi took us in the right direction through awful rush hour traffic. He was very unhappy about the whole thing and tutted loudly throughout. He eventually dropped us off without having found it. We walked a mile or so without finding it before getting in another taxi who drove us round in circles for a while before eventually finding it, only about 50 meters from where we had got in! By that point the kids were tired and hungry and Phil and I were pretty stressed. However it turned out to be worth finding as the steaks were the best we have ever had! Very unexpected in such a location. A much simpler taxi ride back to the hotel.
Today we will try again for the waterpark. Everyone seems well, the sun is shining and it’s time to get dressed.