Since it was my day off, I decided to play tourist together with them! Sad but true, it was kind of my first real tour of KL, had never tried being a tourist in KL before.. :p ..
Early in the morning, we woke up around 7.30am, (phew! early for those who really knows me.. :)), had some light breakfast and we began our journey by 9am. Our first destination: Istana Negara - Royal Palace. We took some pictures with the palace guards and their horses and we even had the chance to see the shift change!
We moved on to our next stop: Tugu Negara - National Monument - in recognition of the glorious dead. Apparently, there were seven men on the monument to symbolise the seven leadership qualities: leadership, unity, strength, vigilance, suffering, courage and sacrifice. This place kind of brought back a lot of memories - the good old days when we studied about Malaysian history and also the time that I made the first visit to this place with some of my friends (this is my second visit).
Next, the Lake Gardens - we just drove around the park and enjoy the grenery of the whole place. Rosemary was pretty fascinated by the road lamps - a hibiscus shaped lamp.. :). We even took a picture of it!
After a long drive, we decided to have some beef ball noodles, more of a request from myself, since I didn't really have a real breakfast.. :). We parked around KotaRaya and walked to a rather famous Beef Ball Noodle shop around Pudu. After a hearty meal, we continued with our journey around KL.
Next destination: Masjid Jamek. In fact, this is not planned. As we were walking towards Dataran Merdeka, we passed a very nice mosque and couldn't resist to walk in and take a quick peek. There was a very nice old malay guy who insisted that we took the robes and skarf (unfortunately, I must say, it definitely needs a washing!) that we take a real tour of the mosque. The mosque was really pretty and well maintained, actually.
The moment we walked out of the mosque, there was a very nice shop, "Karyaneka" that sells very nice batek blouses. Since Rosemary needed a blouse for the chinese wedding (later part of their trip), we decided to try our luck with this place. Unfortunately, we found the right design, but not the right size. Ah well, better luck next time!
So we continued with our tour: Dataran Merdeka - Merdeka Square. After admiring the place a lil, our feet kind of started getting tired and the sun was beginning to shine, so we walked faster and reached CityPoint. Finally, an air conditioned place.. :). We decided that we would drive to the Railway Station later and we found another shop for Rosemary to try to locate her blouse, and I found a chance for me to rest my legs... :). Unfortunately, the shop didn't have anything that we wanted, but by accident or rather by luck, we found a shortcut to the Central Market.
Had a quick tour of the Central Market, they actually changed a lot after my last visit many years ago. Everything was very clean and organized. Very well done! And next, we moved on towards Petaling Street or also known as Chinatown and had the famous, Longan Drink. Ah.. it definitely feels good to gulp down the drink after a long day. And when I looked at my watch, it's only showing 1.00pm. What a busy morning we had!
Next we went back to our car and drove around the Railway Station for a quick peek and towards the Menara KL - KL Tower. Pretty jammed up though and it started to drizzle. Thank goodness we were in the car .. :). When we finally reached the place, I was beginning to feel drowsy with the lack of sleep, so I dropped them off for the tour of the place and parked my car and blissfully had my nap . o:).
2 hours later: I picked them up and headed towards the exit, but unfortunately there was a bottleneck in the exit way. My parents took the heroic role in taking matters in their own hands and directed the traffic, so after a full 15 mins, we were finally on our way again.
Since we were all tired, so we might as well go shopping for Rosemary's blouse, so we moved on to the Craft Complex - where Rosemary found her batek blouse.. :). and we met Kim and headed off for dinner at Omar Khayam - an Indian cuisine restaurant. The food was good and everyone was stuffed by the time we left.
Since Dad wanted to go over to KLCC, so when we reached, took some pictures, dropped them off and bid our goodbyes. So that kind of marks the end of KL tour for me.. :).
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