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Kuala Lumpur: Day 2

Our second and last day in KL didn’t start off as well as we’d hoped. First off, we had some slight problems with the hotel staff about the price of the rooms. it seemed the man behind the desk tried to charge an extra 50 Ringgits for one of our rooms. It’s not much but it was more the principle. It also started raining pretty much as soon as we had checked out. We took a cab to the Petronas Towers, discovering that we’d paid double for the same trip the previous day.

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24 hours in Kuala Lumpur

Since we’ve come this far East, Ville and I decided it would be a good idea to visit Malaysia as well. Since Kuala Lumpur is the closest city to Singapore worth visiting — Bangkok is way too inland — we went to visit the Petronas Towers. You can get to KL from Singapore by plane, by train, by bus and by taxi. By plane is the most expensive but then the other alternatives are pretty much the same. We took the train to Kuala Lumpur, in 1st class; how else? :)

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