Kuala Lumpur trip

Have you ever been to Kuala Lumpur? First thing you see when entering city is the twin Petronas Towers, especially they look very bright at night. Kuala Lumpur is not that big city as Singapore or Istanbul. Still many interesting places to visit. One of the main attractions is the Petronas Towers which symbolizes the city. But there's nothing that much about them except the beautiful architecture. Most of it is occupied by offices (I'd give a lot to work there!). Another one is the Minara Tower. You can have a really cool view of KL from there starting from neighbourhood till Batu Caves (which are another attraction in KL, these caves contain some temples inside). And you will be supplied by audio device which explains more on what you see outside. Following typical tourist mentality, I visited all these places. But what was more interesting is that I could visit my Kyrgyz friends from same school in Kyrgyzstan, they are Nurbek and Kamchy Jusupovs and their families! I saw them last when they graduated before us in 1996! Nurbek bro studied in KL and got married to a girl from Myanmar, and he is currently working in KL. Kamchi (his younger brother) studied in Turkey and got married there to a Kyrgyz girl, and now he is working in KL and also they have 1,5 year old daughter, Kamila! Very pretty and sweet baby(see bottom-left photo). I stayed in their places while I was there. Also I met another Kyrgyz guy Ades Tynyshev who got married to a Malay girl! Wow! Kyrgyz girls, you better be more careful, boys are going in opposite direction! :-) Altogether we went to Bukit Tinggi for a picnic and visited French Village there. In the evening we were invited for a dinner by a Kyrgyz family who are working in our embassy there. It was great feeling to see so many Kyrgyz after 7 months being away. Food was great too, real Kyrgyz food, not prawns and fishballs and no chicken!
Weekend was great except that I was bitten by mosquito there and got infected with dengue fever. But I survived!
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Cameron Highlands - Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) trip

Here comes the story of my first step to Truly Asia, or Malaysia! I always used to wonder about this country, heart of Asia. Popular with its beautiful nature and touristic attractions, it was really one of my dreams to see this country. First target was Cameron Highlands, popular with its natural beauty, tea plantations, strawberry farms and cool highlands, it is located on the North East of Malaysia, 4-5 hour car drive from Kuala Lumpur. So, one nice Friday evening (this is our favorite evening, end of week and beginning of weekend!) me, Gitti and Nacho took a bus to KL(stands for Kuala Lumpur). Once I passed the borders, there it was - Malaysia!!! Feeling was great, I stepped to another new country (one more place to "tick"!). Well, we reached KL, and I was surprised to see that things are very different than Singapore. It was not as clean, as modern as Singapore, but still people were same with majority of Malays. We met there Pauline (or Pilli, from Kenya, DHL trainee) and Erwan (DHL trainee from France). So after a short tour in KL, we headed the Cameron Highlands, Erwan driving brand car Proton. One thing I like about traveling with trainee friends is the way we have a lot of fun. After a fun trip full of jokes and songs, we were at Cameron Highlands! Green jungles were everywhere, and I could see real tea plantations! We were to stay at small lodge called "Daniel's place" (coz its name we were keeping asking staff where actually Daniel was). We spent day by going to Food Festival, jungle walk, having fun of Asian pose and trying to behave like Singaporeans to spend time by "shopping and eating" :) (hope my dear Singaporean friends don't take this seriously, it was just for fun, we all respect Singapore and its residents). The next day we visited tea plantations and bought some fresh Cameron tea to enjoy it and remember this day back in Singapore. Back in KL, we "did shopping and ate" again :). "King Arthur" was to complete this tiring day. At night I took my bus back to Singapore to reach for Singapore National Day celebrations.
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