KL and Chinatown (26th February 2010)

This morning I headed down to reception to get the key to the dorm to find that they didn’t think they had a booking for me, I had decided to stay a couple more days here as it was so nice, it just seemed to be a case of trying to convince them that they did have a booking for the second night and that there was room for the next two nights. Fortunately after they got a young girl on the case there was room so this is to be my base for the next couple of days.

Well with Mick waiting outside for me I headed off out and we headed into the main city area and the market place where Mick had he usual of chicken curry for lunch and I had a yummy veg Thai green curry. Mick had heard about an exhibition about Borneo and historical and cultural artefacts that are found there, it was very interesting although I think we were perhaps their only visitors that day as the guy took great pleasure in following us around and talking to us.

For dinner we headed to the hawker market at the base of the local mall and it was in the mall that I saw my first Lion dance. It was spectacular. It’s all to do with Chinese New Year which I was catching the last couple of days off before it was all over. It can take anything up to an hour for the team to set up the stage area and platforms and the gist of it is that two very athletic and skilful guys team up to make a lion and accompanied by drum music perform this incredible dance over the platforms. It was amazing and so clever how they managed to make the lion look so life like and cute even down to its fluttering eye lashes.



The Lion dance


Later that evening had us wandering around Chinatown which was interesting, if you need a new watch or a Gucci handbag Chinatown has got pretty much everything covered.
My two roommates are a couple of girls from Norway who are making the most of the shopping experience in KL. I did wonder if they were shopping for all the things they may have forgotten but no they assured me they were shopping cause the shopping here was just ‘too good’! I’m afraid on my budget I wont be partaking in the experience.