Yes that is my motorbike. And that is a massive beanbag strapped to the back of it.





I picked it up yesterday and then made my way home with it balanced on the back. I stopped for bread on the way and the parking guy at Joma gave me a strange look. I succeeded in weaving through the traffic though and got home with both me and the beanbag in one piece.

And today I've been treated to this ALL GODDAM DAY!


There is a funeral going on next door and this is what happens at a Vietnamese funeral. They pick the most uncoordinated and out of tume musicians as they possibly can then get them to start playing at 6am. It stops at random points throughout the day for a little while but for most of the day they're making this racket. After being worken up at 6 I tried reading my book for a bit but eventually I gave up and headed to the gym at like 8.30 this morning. Dung looked rather surprised to see me there so early as I'm normally there at 10 at the earliest on a Sunday. I spent aaages there today - partly to avoid the funeral of doom and partly as I didn't go yesterday because on Friday I had a really bad back. I could barely stand up straight, much to the amusement of my students and although it felt better yesterday I didn't wanna risk it at the gym. It was fine today though. I also finally got round to buying a yoga mat thing today so that I can do sit ups and stuff at home without the humiliation of other super fit people watching me! AFter the gym I headed up to West Lake to buy food and to further delay my return home. I thought about getting lunch there as all the Bun Cha places smelled really nice but I couldn't be bothered in the end. Got home to some peace and quiet but it wasn't long before the lame musicians got back into their "music". At least I'll be gone for most of the day tomorrow so if they're still doing it tomorrow I'll miss it. Just hope they don't start up at 6 am again tomorrow :o/

A couple of week ago it was Women's Day and I got two fancy bunches of flowers from both my Monday classes.





Had some nice students last term! My classes this term are pretty nice too. Some of them I taught a couple of terms ago but between now and then the retards have been weeded out so I'm left with the good students!

Just four more weeks of this term and then I'm off on another holiday, this time with my sister. We're spending some time in Vietnam, and then going to Cambodia, Borneo, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. Shopping!! I've also managed to convince my sister she wants to stay here in Siem Reap. Dunno if we will go for a villa or just for a suite/the hotel but all the rooms there sound pretty sweet with the swimming pool and stuff as well. The villa sounds extra fancy tho. Will be going to Ha Long Bay again and am going with the same company as with the parents. This time no private boat tho. Did manage to get ex-pat rates so it's only $129 for an overnight trip on a fancy boat. We're also going to Hoi An and I'm gonna get another dress made. It's about time to add some more clothes to my wardrobe! I'm also looking forward to eating some good food. Indian food in Borneo and Chinese food in KL!

Had some good Singaporean food on St Paddy's Day. On my way out of work Alison convinced me and Nat to go to Derry's with her and Calder for green beer and satay. passed on the green beer but the satay was good. There are a few Singapore dishes available there now which sound nice. Will have to try some of them some time.

I've managed to get to the gym most days these past two weeks. Getting my moneys worth! It wasn't too traumatic with the trainer boy the other day but I suck at sit ups and stuff. Have been trying to do stuff like that each time I go and today he made me do more with him - I'm getting better! I can do a few more now compared to two weeks ago, but I still can't do too many before I die! Dung also made me pinky promise to go to his 8am aerobics class tomorrow morning :o/ What a way to start the week! Don't know if I'm even fit enough to make it all the way to the end of the class without dropping dead as it looks pretty hardcore - will have to see how it goes.

Had a nice dinner at Alison and Calder's place yesterday. Had to go via Derry's to meet Nat so that he could follow me to their apartment, then Calder had to send the key down on a piece of string as they're on the fifth floor and can't be assed to walk up and down the stairs unless absolutely necessary. Alison cooked meat pie (from scratch!!!) with mash and veg and it was yummy yummy yummy. We had apple crumble and custard for dessert as I'd stopped at Joma (an ace new cafe we first investigated last weekend. This place sells real bread! None of this sweet bread nonsense - it's the real deal! And you can buy loaves to take home so I intend to indulge in some marmite sandwiches at work this week. The best lunch ever!) earlier in the day to pick some up. It was nice to just chill out for a few hours and eat good food in a nice Western apartment. I get jealous of their place sometimes as it's a really cool apartment, but I can't be bothered to pay two or three times my current rent for my own place (or to faff around moving stuff around Hanoi!. My house isn't actually too bad, particularly considering how little we pay for a fully furnished 4 floor house. And it is nice to have company without having to actually venture outside. We have a new housemate moving in sometime soon as Mark is finally off to Cambodia and so he managed to let out his room in less than 24 hours. We had heaps of people to choose from and hopefully we picked a nice normal housemate from the bunch!

I finally joined a gym (again!) today so am now all motivated to go and be active again. The super hot and humid time of the year is coming so my exercise will dwindle down to nothing which is not good for my plans to go climb a mountain before leaving Asia. When I got back from my big trip I didn't really have the funds to rejoin the hotel gym so I put it off. A new gym actually opened up fairly recently so I'm glad I didn't go back to the hotel as this one is heaps better. For starters it's a real gym rather than an attachment to a hotel and it is full of top quality equipment (including cross trainers! Yay!)that works really well. The staff there actually know stuff about training and there are a whole bunch of classes on offer like yoga, pilates, kickboxing etc. Will try some of them out at a later stage methinks. There is a $300 joining fee which kinda sucks but I get an appointment with a trainer as part of that so on Tuesday I'm going to embarrass myself and find out how unfit I am with this dudes help.

This week is the last week of term for all but one of my classes so a cruisy week is coming up. Time to relax!

So...China!

Arrived in Beijing on Saturday afternoon and got the bus into the city. The hostel was supposedly next to the bus stop but I couldn't for the life of me find it so I wandered around in the freezing cold attempting to find it. No one seemed to know where it was and then finally I spotted the hostelling international sign up high on a building and eventaully managed to check in. Was starving by this point as the lunch on the plane had been so bad it'd made me feel sick so went next door for McDonalds, figuring Big Mac is the same in any language! Then I walked around by the hostel for a bit but got very confused by all the Chinese, and was also feeling cold, tired and grumpy at this point so I gave up and went back to the hostel to speak with crazy Brightonians on Skype.

Was a bit more cheerful the next day and made my way to Tiananman square. It's big! Walked across it to the other end and then went to the Forbidden City. Just as big!

Spent most of the afternoon there as each time you think you've reached the end there is another section hiding behind it waiting to be explored.

Once I was done exploring I went to the shopping street to have a look around. Got some meat on a stick for dinner and then got excited about real shopping centres! Found a foreign language book shop and managed to buy just one book, and also got myself a stupid hat with ear flaps and pom poms as I'd pretty much lost all feeling in my ears in the afternoon.

The next day featured more shopping. Went to Silk Street for some fakie goods - got myself a proper winter jacket and a pair of hideously unnatractive (but very warm) ugg boots . In then walked for a bit with no real purpose until I was so cold I had to go warm myself up in a cafe. Next up I went to the cold and windswept Olympic park.

I didn't really want to pay lots of money to go inside things so I just spent a bit of time walking around on the lovely windy expanse of concrete and then went back to shopping street for some more shopping time. Also went to see Tiananmen Square all lit up at night.


Had an early start the following day for my great wall tour. It had a lot of other parts to it too and in the end we only spent a couple of hours at the wall but given how cold it was a couple of hours was more than enough! The first stop was a jade factory where they tried to sell us expensive jade products, and then we went on to some Ming tombs. It was set up in a temple complex similar to the ones in Vietnam but it was cool to see. Next up was the wall where we climbed up over 1000 steps (I gave up counting after 1000) to various assorted watch towers.

On the way up to each one we'd say "after this we're turning back" but then we'd see the next one and think that perhaps the view was better from there, so off we went up and up and up. And then we had to come down and down and down.

We then went for lunch at a local restaurant and had some good Chinese food then we were taken to a silk factory where I bought the most awesome cushion - it is bright pink with butterflies on it and it zips out into a silk blanket! It's ace! The last stop on the tour was a tea place to sample various teas. I'm not a big tea drinker so this wasn't particularly exciting, but it was nice to be sitting down in the warmth.

Got up early the next day too to go and see the great chairman. Had to go back to the hostel to get my passport as apparently they take the protection of their dead leader far more seriously in China than in Vietnam and so I had to show ID before I could go and see Mao. Pretty much the same set up as for Uncle Ho - stand in a line, go through a metal detector, stand in another line, take your hat off, walk past a dead guy in a glass box, come out the other side, done.

Just got to get to Moscow now to complete the set of dead communist leaders!

Once I'd gone back to the hostel to collect all the junk I carted around with me each day (you can't take your bags in with you to see the great leader!) I went to Yonghegong Lama Temple. It was pretty busy with people burning their new years incense but apparently after the new year it was even more crazy busy.

I then went across the road and down a side street to the Confucian temple which was much more peaceful before heading to the zoo. It wasn't very exciting, and despite having to buy a ticket to get into the zoo you then had to buy other tickets to see most of the animals once you were inside. Most of the animals were huddled up away from the cold anyway - really not the most exciting zoo visit ever!

After these busy days being a tourist I had quite a slow day the next day. I went to try and find some underground city thing and aquired a crazy lady from Singapore along the way. She was staying in the same hostel and she invited herself along. I figured it'd be nice to have some company but she always walked five paces behind me and would never really speak to me. She kept staring and any Western man we passed too. Crazy stuff! Couldn't find the underground city place as it was on some obscure street so I got distracted by shops instead and bought some awesome stripy and spotty knee-high socks! I then went back to the hostel in an attempt to shake of the crazy stalker and settled down with my book for a few hours whilst waiting for Alison and Calder to arrive. Once they were checked in we went across the road to the station to look into buying train tickets to Harbin to go to the ice festival. Unfortunately whilst there were still tickets available to get there, there were no tickets left for me to get back to Beijing in time for me to fly home so I couldn't go. Once htey had bought their tickets we went for a classy meal at Maccy Ds then back to the hostel for a drink or two in the bar.


The next day was new years eve (if you're Chinese or Vietnamese) and we spent it visiting the summer palace. It's out towards the edge of the city and was rather pretty, plus the sky was really clear and blue. It was a really nice (but cold) day for a bit of sightseeing.


We then tried to find lunch near the drum and bell tower and ended up in some local restaurant with Alison ordering food for us in Chinese. It made a nice change to the fast food/food that could be pointed at that I'd been eating prior to their arrival as a lot of local places were beyond my capabilities. Paid a brief visit to thr drum tower just in time to watch the drummers going crazy and then we made our way back to the hostel, picking up supplies on the way. Spent the evening watching dodgy Chinese new years eve TV and listening to the endless fireworks going off outside.

On new years day we joined what seemed like the rest of China in visiting the temple of heaven

where I modelled my beautiful and rather fashionable Chinese look.

The ugg boots, the stupid hat, the knee-high spotty socks and the flappy mittens all add to the look. We then ate more yummy Chinese food in a local restaurant before calling it a day and chilling out at the hostel for the rest of the afternoon.

The next day was the last day with Calder and Alison and we went to a (somewhat busier) Tiananmen Square where I joined the locals in posing a for a photo or two.

We then walked through a hutong or two away from the crowds to find a place for lunch before discovering another shopping area that I made plans to return to the next day. We made our way back to the hostel after that and after getting in supplies for their journey (McDonalds and beer!) Alison and Calder left for their overnight train ride to Harbin. For something to do (as bizzare Chinese TV is less entertaining on your own) I went back to the original shopping street for more meat on a stick goodness. It was much busier this time so I just people watched for a while and took in all the crazy fashions that Chinese people seemed so keen to show off to the world.

For the last few days I didn't do very much. I did a fair bit of shopping (H&M!!) and when I was ill I watched some DVDs in the warmth of the hostel. I did make it to the ruins of the old summer palace which was nice as it was really wintery. I miss those cold crisp blue winter days but the old summer palace was a good place to enjoy them again as there were lots of frozen lakes to walk around.



I also went to see the Chinese acrobats which was entertaining. Their big ending was this:

5 dudes on motorbikes riding around inside that cage behind them. Whilst I was watching it I couldn't help but think that if you put 5 Vietnamese people on a wide straight road they find a way to crash into each other and yet these 5 guys managed to ride around that confined space without crashing! OK so they've probably worked pretty hard to get to that point but I still found it amusing.

And that, ladies and gentlemen was my trip to China. Next up - Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore and maybe even Brunei when my sister comes to visit in April!

As always, people without Facebook can see my photos here

I am now back from China, but despite having the best intentions to be productive today and do Stuff, I have in fact wasted the day and achieved nothing other than paying my moto rent. As a result you'll have to wait for exciting stories and photos from China!

Am finally packed! Has taken me the longest time to actually get round to packing today. I went into the Old Quarter when I got up to get a bunch of stuff and ended up meeting Alison at Puku for some eggs benedict whilst waiting to find out if Calder had made it to Thailand safely. I thought my attempts to get a Chinese visa were tedious but it's even worse for Calder. He had to get a new visa for Vietnam as he didn't have enough time left on his current one accordng to the Chinese embassy. It's not as simple as just getting the visa sorted here in Hanoi - instead he had to fly to Bangkok this morning and then fly back this afternoon with a letter of invitation to get a Vina visa. All this was arranged over the course of yesterday and Thursday and at about 6pm yesterday Alison finally got all the paperwork needed after a lot of stress.

We ended up spending quite a bit of time in Puku gossiping and waiting to hear that Calder had arrived safely then I set off to get the various things I needed. The big thing I was after was some US currency but again, this is Vietnam so I couldn't just go to the bank and change money. Had to go to some gold shop instead and change it on the black market and I got ushered out of plain view to count out the dollars, just in case anyone of a suspicious nature was watching the shop. Managed to get $300 at a little higher than the official exchange rate but at least now I know I've got some instant cash if the ATMs in China have a hissy fit and don't accept my card. Didn't really get up to much else in town as I'd left my list of Stuff To Do at home. The only vital thing was the dollars so once I had them I went for a browse in some shops and got myself a new coat. Prolly shouldn't have, but it was so lovely I couldn't resist. Plus I got a lucky red envelope with it with a 50,000 dong gift voucher and some stamps on my loyalty card so technically I gained something from it! The streets were pretty mental too which made me pretty impatient so I just did what I had to then came home. Regret not taking my camera out with me as everyone is busy preparing for Tet. For most people this involves strapping a big kumquat or peach blossom tree to the back of their motorbike and riding through the traffic like a maniac. Quite a sight to see!

Came home and faffed around a ridiculous amount this afternoon, and caught up with some people online then realised it was 7pm and I'd not really achieved anything. SLightly crazed attempt at packing unvolved slinging some clothes onto my bed and getting together various stuff then throwing it into my backpack. At least this holiday I'm only gone for 2 weeks, and I'm only dealing with one type of weather - freezing cold - so it wasn't as convoluted as packing for the last trip I took. I figured as long as I have lots of jumpers and warm tights I'll be fine! Went to meet Calder and Alison after that - despite not really having finished my packing, and having a whole heap of other things to do - but as Calder had managed to complete the most difficult part of the trip (successfully getting a visa put into his passport upon arrival in Vietnam) I decided to join them at Derrys to celebrate. Did manage to paint my nails whilst I was there so crossed one more thing off my list. A quick drink turned into several and a good gossip, and I ended up leaving gone midnight. oops! I THINK I'm all sorted now but I have a feeling I've forgotten something vital. I guess I'll find out when I get there tomotrrow! Taxi is coming at 7am tomorrow (ugh) as Calder encountered a lot of traffic on his way to the airport today, presumably due to Tet preparations so I'm off bright and early to the lamest excuse for an internation airport ever to make sure I catch my flight. This means I'll get at most 4 hours of sleep tonight so am hoping to sleep on the flight tomorrow. Fingers crossed no clueless retards with no idea about how to fly are sitting next to me.

Chuc mung nam moi!!

I am still alive! Have just been busy running around the city and standing in endless queues at the Chinese embassy to try and get my visa sorted. It was the most tediously complex process ever involving a double whammy of paperwork and ridiculous rules to appease both the Vinas and the Chinese. I think this might be my only trip to china, certainly from this part of the world as I really can't face all that again! I guess I should just be greatful I got the damn thing as when I went to pick up my passport yesterday they were turning away a Dutch couple saying no visas for foreigners. At least they (eventually) processed mine so now I can start getting things together and booking a place to stay. I leave on Sunday!

Last week of this term tomorrow! Woohoo! Will be glad to see the back of my lame class who are incredibly unresponsive and make the lessons no fun at all. I'm also looking forward to having a prper weekend next weekend as I've had to teach the past two Saturdays to make up for having xmas day off. Lame!

Had another fun post office experience today trying to send a birthday pressie to my sister. The international part of the post office had no staff in it today so I went round to the main part of the post office. Ususally when I send things back to the UK I get them to wrap it for me in postal paper, but according to the woman in the main part of the post office stuff must be sent in boxes and paper can't be used. I suspect this is a ploy to charge me 90,000 dong for a crappy cardboard box (it wasn't like it was a proper postal box or anything) and a bit of tape, and I guarante that if I go to the usual part of the post office tomorrow to send something I'd be able to get it wrapped in paper there.

I am now starting to get things organised for my next holiday. In Feb I'm off to China for two weeks! Exciting!

The trip!!! It's taken me a long time to get round to sorting the photos out from my trip but finally it's done and I have some time to spare. So this is what I did on my 5 weeks off.

I went out to the airport to meet the parents and tried to break them into life in Vietnam gently. The day after they arrived we went out to Co Loa, on the edge of the city, with Lan. She managed to negotiate a taxi for us so we got to ride out in relative luxury rather than having to brave the bus. We aquired a random Vietnamese girl on our way round Co Loa and spent a couple of hours checking out the temples and the lake.



It's got a small village vibe going on despite being pretty close to Hanoi so it was quite a nice way to escape the madness. That afternoon we went to the Temple of Literature and then walked to my house past some of Hanoi's exciting sights like the Lenin state, the flag tower, the mausoleum and the B-52 wreckage. Hanoi has a rather specific style of tourist attractions!

The next day we didn't do quite as much as the weather was a bit crap and we had brunch lined up at the Melia but it was a nice relaxing day.

The following day was my escape from Hanoi!! We went to Ha Long Bay where we somehow ended up on our own private boat!



It had a couple of nice cabins and a dining area where we spent most of our time. There was a sun deck but the lack of sun meant that we didn't really use it. There were several fancy meals on the trip!



We had a seven course meal soon after getting on the boat as we sailed out into the bay. We visited a floating village (like the one in the Top Gear Vietnam show where people live for all their life on the water) and sailed a bit more before having another 7 course meal. The next day we went kayaking to a cave and then had what was supposed to be a light breakfast but was prolly more food than I'd eat in a day before visiting one of the caves in the bay. We then got fed ANOTHER meal as we headed back to the main land. It was a nice trip tho and I'd definitely go back again with that same company.

Once we were back in Hanoi we had a few hours to kill then we got the crappy overnight train down to Hue. It rained pretty much the whole time we were in Hue but we still visited some of the sights. We went to the Citadel



and out to some pagoda by the river, and ate lots of nice food in the restaurant by the hotel.

Next stop after Hue was Hoi An. The weather was still bad so we didn't get to go over the pass and see the ace view. I'm gonna have to go back and do that another time! In Hoi An I got a lot of clothes made which filled some time, and we walked around the town in the rain. The river flooded evey evening which gives you an idea of how wet it was!



We went to My Son (the Cham ruins in the jungle)



but didn't bother with a wet beach.

The last place we went to in Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh City. It's like a more modern version of Hanoi and has a few things worth seeing in the city I guess. I was excited about all the international food that you could get there tho! We did a day trip to the Mekong which was nice - no motorbikes there!! -



and we also went to the tunnels from the war. Also managed to meet up with my friends Nick and Katherine for a nice French meal and now I can finally say that I've made it to Ho Chi Minh City.

The last stop of the trip with the parents was Singapore. I very much enjoyed my Subway meal for dinner the night we arrived! We walked around some of the touristy places of the city, like the Merlion and the Battle Box tunnels as well as doing a river cruise,



and we spent some time on Sentosa Island at the beach.



We also did the night safari which was kinda cool, apart from the walk-in bat cage. Did NOT like that! After the parents left I went on the Singapore Flyer (like the London Eye)



and then did some shopping. Singapore has some good shopping! There were also heaps of xmas displays and lights all over the city which was nice.

The next day I flew to Macau and checked into my fancy hotel - prolly the nicest hotel I've ever stayed in! Resisted the temptation to sleep in my nice big bed and headed out to explore the city. I wasn't that impressed at first at it seemed kinda industrial and the area by my hotel was full of casinoes and hotels. Once I got to the bottom of the peninsula tho I picked up the tourist trail through the city and it got a lot better. It's a strange place with Chinese and Portguese stuff side by side. All the street names are Portugese, and there would be a Portugese sign stuck to the side of a Chinese temple. It was a nice place to walk around tho. Lots of winding cobbled streets going up and down the hills and lots of churches hiding down side streets. It was nice and cool after the heat of Singapore and was a relatively easy place to walk around so I spent pretty much the entire day walking around the city. There was a fort on the top of a hill,



and the front piece of a massive cathedral that had somehow survived the bombing (?) that wiped out the rest of the building



and a whole bunch of other interesting places to check out. The next day I got a bus down to the southern part of the island and found a really nice cafe with ace jacket potatoes!! Walked along the coast for a bit, and looked across at the industruial greyness of China but then it got rather boring so I went back up to the main part of Macau and wandered around aimlessly til it was time to get my ferry over to Hong Kong.

On the first day in Hong Kong I went to Ocean Park - rollercoasters and animal stuff. It was pretty cool! Sadly the big loop the loop coaster wasn't working but there were some other good rides, including one of those things that drops you straight down from a great height. It was fun! In the evening I went across the harbour to watch the symphony of lights thing - a 15 minute display of lights from the buildings around the harbour, with the added bonus of some cheesy music to accompany it.



Once it ended there were a bunch of boats sailing past on the harbour - turns out it was a run through for the opening ceremony for the East Asia games that was happening the next night.




The next day I went up on the Peak Tram to get the typical tourist photo of Hong Kong.



Spent the rest of the day wandering around the city and doing the occasional bit of shopping before going back to the same place as the night before to watch the opening ceremony as it was free. Didn't have a such a great view of all the stuff on the water but I can't imagine the second time the boats sailed past was more interesing. The main reason I was there was because of the rumour of a firework display and at the end of the ceremony there was a good 15 minutes of fireworks. Yay!




On my last day in HK I went out to one of the outlying islands to go see a massive Buddha at the top of a hill. There is a big cable car to save your legs - it takes 30 minutes to sway and swing your way to the top of the hill,



then it's a short climb up some stairs to get to the Buddha.



It was nice to see a different side of the city.

I then hit my last country of the trip - Malaysia. I flew into Penang and stayed in the centre of Georgetown. It was quite a nice place with a fort and the usual Malaysian mix of cultures. It also had great Indian and Thai food and a chocolate shop that gave you free samples of pretty much everything when you went in. Outside of Georgetown was Penang Hill which didn't seem worth the effort to me. Unlike the Peak Tram in HK which runs pretty much constantly the one to the top of Penang Hill seemed to only run every half hour which meant I had to wait for ages to get to the top. Close to the hill is a massive temple complex



which was much more interesting than the hill with heaps of pagodas and prayer halls. There was also a beach, of course, that just had to be visited!




After a few days there I made my way to the Cameron Highlands. I went on a day tour in a 4 wheel drive which started with a crazy ride up a dirt track deep into the jungle to see a big flower.



The car in front got stuck



and we ended up having to nudge them with our car to get them going again. There was a crazy hike to get to the flower,



and then we had to make our way back down the steep muddy track in the car, getting a massive rock wedged under the car somewhere which then had to be bashed out at the side of the road, much to the amusement of a group of kids who were passing. The rest of the tour was a little more sedate, taking in the tea plantation (with a cafe selling scones!),



a butterfly and insect farm



and a strawberry farm.

The following day I went on a more relaxed tour to the top of a mountain. It was pretty misty at the top so the view wasn't great, but there was a short forest walk through a cloud forest at the top



with the occasional gap in the clouds to take in some of the view.



We also stopped at the tea plantations and strawberry farm again but I saw no problem with having another round of scones, jasmine tea and strawberries with honey! That afternoon I hired a motorbike and enjoyed riding on civilised roads out to a flower garden



and a couple of temples. People actually gave way to me when I was waiting to turn!!

The last place I visited was Kuala Lumpur, mainly to shop. I got there in the morning and had to wait a couple of hours before my room was ready - in that short space of time I aquired several bags! The next day I went to Little India and Chinatown but once it started to rain I gave in and went to the indoor market for some shopping and a foot massage. I had another day of shopping, then felt kinda guilty the next day so went out to the park to avoid spending money. Went past the National Mosque



and stopped in at the Islamic Arts museum, then went into the park. Took in the bird park which was pretty cool




and then went to the KL tower in the evening as I do like to watch the sun set over a big city.



Finished off my trip with another day of shopping!

All the albums are here if you're bored and fancy looking at some more photos! -
Vietnam
Singapore
Macau
Hong Kong
Malaysia