The reason for getting up early was to head over to the Petronas Towers. For anyone not aware, in 1998 they set the record for tallest building in the world and currently still holds the record for tallest twin towers and highest elevated bridge. For anyone who has seen Entrapment, it is the building they heist at the end of the film. Have you not seen Entrapment... WATCH IT!!! It is an awesome movie with Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones being awesome.
Anyway, tickets for visiting the skybridge are sold the day of ascent, and the line piles up very fast. We arrived at about 8:30 and were still waiting quite some time. All that said though, we got through the line and each got a ticket for the 2:20 trip up the towers. More to follow later.
We left the ticket center around 11, so we wanted to be back by 2. With those 3 hours we grabbed a cab to the recommended butterfly park. Now, there were some cab issues and attempted rip-offs, but I think we managed nicely through the ordeal. Anyway, we arrived and entered without hassle. There were a lot of butterflies, all of which flying around freely withing the netted boundaries. While I don't know many of them by name, the sheer quantity was impressive. In addition to their numbers, the color variety was extreme. There were large, solid black ones, to small white ones. Some faded from browns to brilliant violets while others used bright greens and reds as highlights on there long wings. It was pretty cool.
Among other sites here we also saw a number turtles, fish and frogs. The fish were the usual selection of orange, red and white japanese pond fish. The turtles were largely varied, ranging from a soft-shell to alligator (or crocodile...) snapper. Inside we saw various different spiders, beetles, scorpions and mantis. While they are always cool, they are also always creepy. My personal favorite site however, was one of the display cases of preserved insects, butterflies in this case. I've never seen more brilliant fluorescent blues. I felt like I was looking at holograms. They were stunning to see.
After the park we headed by cab into the local Little India for lunch. Unfortunately, the section of town itself seemed a bit underwhelming. The shops seemed ok and the restaurants weren't anything special. That said, we found a great spot for lunch, serving vegetarian indian food. Here I discovered that indian vegetarian is great. Since the curry sauce is really the best part, I hard notice if there is no meat. So lunch was a complete success.
This brought us to just after 1:30 so we took the 20 minute walk back to the Petronas Towers. Once our time was called we were taken into a small theatre and were shown a film on the Petrol company and the tower itself. Though comments on the tower were brief, I believe the oil company was mostly advertising itself. We then headed into a high speed elevator (which was high speed indeed) and taken up 40 floors in under a minute. Here we were given 15 minutes to look out from the views provided by the sky bridge. In short it felt like we could look ... anywhere. Sadly, I did not know of anything to really look for. In terms of distance the site was stunning, but its always a bit fun to identify known things. But, even from that height, we were dwarfed by the rest of the tower, extending another 40+ floors above us on either side. It was pretty fantastic.
After that we headed back to the hotel. We originally planned to fill our day and take tomorrow easy to relax before heading to Japan, but we changed our mind to have two easy days and see a few sites each. We also avoid all rush hour traffic this way. So, we had dinner locally at the hotel, and that led us to indian again. Sadly it was a bit of a letdown after lunch. That said, it was still good and the mango lassos were very tasty. It was then a quiet night and about to be off to bed.
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