Day 7: Kuala Lumpur

-Woke up late and missed our free breakfast, went to Burger King instead (we needed some Western food).

-Walked over to the Islamic Art Museum. Walked past KL Station and the KTMB headquarters. Had a look at the National Mosque, but it wasn't viewing hours for non-Muslims so we didn't go in. Interestingly the Islamic Art Museum had a whole exhibit on Ann Dunham, Barack Obama's mum. It was all about the Indonesian Batik's she collected when they lived there.

The old train station:

The mosque:

Model of Mecca in the Islamic Art Museum:

 A qur'an:

-Then walked up to grab a snack and drink at the Hornbill Restaurant which is just inside the Bird Park. It's sneaky because you get a glimpse of the bird park but don't have to pay the entrance fee. This annoying ugly bird kept coming up to us for food and was not scared at all! Eventually the staff just left us with a spray bottle of water so we could spray the bird. That got rid of him for about 2 minutes and then he would fly back. Marco and I also discovered cool photo settings on our cameras so we ended up taking tons of pictures.

One of the male hornbills in the park:

Marco at the restaurant. Turns out my camera has a fisheye setting:

-We then took went and took a look at the Orchid and Hibiscus Garden. Turns out the hibiscus is Malaysia's national flower. The orchids were beautiful and there were so many different colours. We did see one of those huge gross lizards again.

Marco in the garden:

Some of the beautiful orchids:

-Took a cab back to the hostel and relaxed some. Spent some time updating the blog.

-Walked into Chinatown to take a look at Petaling Street. It's full of market stalls and people hollering at you to buy things. It was quite overwhelming actually. We were going to get dinner there but it really was just shops. We ended up going to a little cafe in the Central Market. I had the weirdest chicken cordon bleu. There was no cheese! Isn't that the whole point?

-We went back to the hostel and played cards on the rooftop bar. It actually has a gorgeous view of the KL Tower and Petronas Towers. We were going to head up to the Petronas Towers and walk across the walkway but it's a little cloudy here so there wasn't much point.