Day in Kuala Lumpur, Malyasia, 23/10/12

A workman sits in the gutter beside the main road. Smoke engulfs his face as he puffs away at his cigarette, all you can distinguish as a faint smile as he looks across at a lost white man. They all have a grin and one even with his cement covered hand wanted a high five.

KL is made up of a mix of Chinese, Malaysian, Westerner, Indians… and so on… Its central to South Asia and its importance is growing. Temperature was in the mid-30s and humidity was around 96%, very uncomfortable. When I arrived at 5.30am the temperature was already 25%! I spent the day wandering and exploring a very interesting place was china town full of noise and bustle. Some small undercover alleyways lead to small stall selling fish, veg, food and a few barbers. This area was full of Chinese, I did not see a tourist at all. The small walk way through all the stalls was covered in water and bits of vegetables. They all looked inquisitively at me as I take a few quick snaps. I finished the day going up all 450 meters of the Petronas towers.

Finished the day completely knackered having lost so much water I probably caused a drought! As a Malaysian said to me as he awoke me from my sleep in an expensive shopping mall, ‘Where are you from… Where are you going… When are you leaving.. (his eye brows raise towards the top of the Petronas towers and he says) You haven’t got much time in our country’. So I must dash for the quiet life style of INDIA.

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