A morning in the city centre
When I awoke this morning, I had a quick sandwich for brekki and then took the LRT over to the city centre to try and get one of the 400 free tickets to the Petronas Towers walkway that are given out each morning. Lonely Planet had suggested getting there at 8:30 to ensure a place in line but apparently the bar has been raised because the queue had maxed out by 8:30.
A little disappointed, I decided to make the most of things and started exploring the city centre instead. My first stop was the KL city centre park, which sports the largest outdoor jungle gym I've ever seen. It also has some trees with stilt roots, which are a pretty unusual sight.
After that I walked over to Bintang Walk, where fancy restaurants line the street but only a block away are downscale ones featuring a fraction of the price. That's where I ate rice porridge for second brekki, enjoying the lack of flies in KL.
After finishing my porridge I kept walking and was rewarded by an enclave of food hawkers. All the menus were in Malay and none of the hawkers spoke very much English so I pointed at a random strange-looking fruit and asked for it to be juiced. The juice was a refreshing blend of bitter and sweet. Later on I figured out it had been starfruit.
I ended my exploration of the city centre by visiting the art gallery inside the Petronas Towers, where they had a special exhibit by a local artist whose theme was war. I loved his sculptures of humanoids wearing bullet clips in various poses.
