On our last day in Malaysia Sean and I spent the time seeing the things we wanted to see but didn't get a chance to check out before. The first item on the list was visiting the Petronas towers, or more specifically, the skybridge of the Petronas towers. The catch to this was that you had to get up really early and wait in line for hours as the towers only gave out 1600 tickets each day. Sean and I thought we made it plenty early but when we arrived we were greeted with hordes of eager tourists already in line. We barely sneaked in just under the count for two tickets for later that afternoon. While waiting in line for two and a half hours we chatted with fellow travelers in front of us and behind us (we haven't run into single American yet; most travelers are from Europe and Australia with a few Canadians sprinkled here and there). The highlight of the waiting was when a young guy in front of us turned around when he heard us talking about Michigan and said, 'Where did you say you were from?" and when we said "Holland" he said, "I spent a year in Holland on an exchange program and loved it!" He was a recent college graduate from Brazil and we had a blast chatting about our hometown and what he thought about it. It's a small world. ($7 tower tickets, $5 metro)
After lunch in the park we headed to Kuala Lumpur's famous bird park. It is well-known for being the world's largest walk-in aviary. Though it was expensive it was really worth it and a lot of fun to walk around the park where exotic birds flew freely and weren't afraid of you. My favorite part was the exhibit called the "World of Parrots" where parrots of all kinds squawked, flew around and would sit on any part of your body for food. ($13 lunch, $17 room, $30 bird park, $1 water)
It was a super hot and humid day and after walking all over and taking lots of metro rides we made it back to the towers for our appointed time to ascend. We cooled off with huge iced coffees while we waited for our turn. Going up in the towers was fun though we had to sit through a video which was basically just an advertisement for the Petronas petroleum company. The construction of the skybridge was built to flex a little bit with the wind and it was really neat to be up so high between two buildings. ($14 iced coffees and snacks, $5 souvenirs)
Later that night over a pizza dinner with Daniel we made plans for leaving for Indnonesia the next day and wrote some postcards to family and friends. ($11 dinner, $8 donuts and drinks) Total = $111 for two people
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