This entry comes to you from Kuala Lumpur, where we arrived last night after a solid day of travel that took us from the east coast of China to a mere few degrees off the equator. We left our dorm in Shanghai at 7am to catch a 9:30 train to Hangzhou, which was quick, clean, and on-time. Our flight was scheduled to take off from Hangzhou at 2:00pm and arrive here at 7pm, but we didn't make it into the air until after 3:30.
The flight was fine, and we landed in KL around 8:10. From there, it was an hourlong ride to the center of the city, and then another 15 minutes to our hostel (the exterior of which is visible below, as the short pink building in the exact center of the photo).
Malaysia is a pretty cool place, as whatever local culture is mixed with plenty of Chinese and Indian influence. People are generally pretty friendly, and most speak good English in addition to Malay. Since this is essentially an extended layover for us, we spent a relaxing day today poking around a local market before heading off to see the Petronas towers. I've seen plenty of tall buildings in my lifetime, but these were much more impressive than I expected, especially given the surrounding cityscape, which ranges from ultra-modern to centuries-old.
We have an extremely early wake up call tomorrow, so I'm off to bed soon. Our flight leaves at 7:00am, and lands two hours later in Siem Reap at 8:00am (Cambodia is an hour behind China/Malaysia). You'll find some pictures from KL in this post, but as our connection is still a little slow, I have a pretty big stack of photos from the past 2 weeks that I haven't yet uploaded to Flickr. Stay tuned for more on our adventures....
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