Day 87 - Batu Caves & Petronas Towers.

Josh needed to be back by 3 at the latest to grab his bags and head to the airport to fly home so we decided to get up early and make the most of the day. The journey to the Batu Caves was straightforward by train so that is how we got there. The Batu Caves is a limestone hill, said to be around 400million years old, that has a series of temples and is one of the most popular Hindu shrines outside India. There are 272 steps to climb to get to the top and to the right of these stairs is a gold statue, which stands at 42.7m and is the tallest statue of Lord Murugan in the world. This statue took 3 years to build and was only unveiled in January 2006.

The stairs gave me a good work out and apparently some people go there every morning just for their daily exercise. In the caves are monkeys who were quite crazy and climbed pretty high up the caves. The caves don’t take that long to look at, so we left here and made our way to china town.

In china town we bought some iced tea in a bag, bartered for stuff as Josh wanted to buy some souvenirs to take home and we also bought some elephant trousers which are SO comfy! Instead of getting the monorail (Monoraiiiiil!) back we decided to walk as it’s not that far. Josh sorted out his stuff and left so I made my way to the Petronas Towers to pick up my ticket.

I ended up going up at 4.15pm as that was the only time slot left, I probably should have got it earlier but oh well. Going up is better than not going up! There are 88 floors and the viewing platform is on the 86^th so we get to go pretty much to the top, which is cool! The first stop is on the 41^st floor where the Sky bridge is located it can also be accessed on the 42^nd floor making it the highest two story bridge in the world. The bridge isn’t attached to the main structure of the towers as it is designed to move in and out so it doesn’t break as both towers can move differently in high winds.

The views were pretty cool but you couldn’t see the whole way out and it looked quite cloudy. I thought it might rain and well, it certainly did that about 5minutes after I thought it! It was quite scary being so high up when a massive thunderstorm is happening and it feels as if the lightening is hitting the towers! Obviously when all of this happened the only thing you could see out the windows then was the other tower. At least it wasn’t raining the entire time I was up there, otherwise it really would have ruined the experience.

Once again I was going to go to the bird park etc. but it’s not exactly what I want to do in the rain so I opted out and grabbed some dinner in Suria KLCC which is the shopping bit underneath. I got the train back to Bukit Bintang which was a right nightmare as every was getting it to stay out of the rain. Finally back I sorted out my bag ready for tomorrow.