Another leisurely morning. The guidebook said the Petronas Towers were open to the public in the mornings from 10 until 12.45, so we wandered out that way, stopping for a doughnut first. Big signs at the entrance to the Sky Bridge, the bit that links the towers, said that all the tickets were gone for the day, which was a shame as we wouldn't be able to go up at all - all our mornings would be spent on buses or away from KL from now on. We thought that we might be able to get up very early and try to get on a tour (they actually start at 9am)before one of our buses, and went outside to take some photos.

I was crossing the road to take a picture of the beautiful gleaming spires and I saw Mikey chatting to a security guard. He waved me across the road and told me that the security man had spare tickets for the tower tour today if we wanted them for 10 ringgets each (about 3 pounds for the two of us) even though the tickets are generally free. We thought this was a great idea and would save us a 6am start and a long queue sometime, and after Mikey got change, we ran to the tour desk as the 12.30 tour was just about starting, and found that they were actually delayed for a while. We sat in an auditorium and watched a little film about the building of the place, which was completed in 1996, and is the tallest building in the world, or there abouts. We went up to the 41st floor which is where the Skybrige is:

and had about ten minutes to take photos of the view. It was actually quite hazy this far up, but the view was still great. It's a very impressive structure. Then we went down again and I bought a couple of t-shirts and then we had a late lunch. We went to a Malaysian restaurant and had too much food. No chopsticks for my soup this time, but its hard to eat noodles with a spoon!

We made our slow way back to the hostel in the afternoon and sat and watched a sweet Tom Hanks film called The Terminal. Pirated DVDs is a big Malaysian industry and there are several films at the hostel on offer, some of which haven't appeared in the cinemas here yet. There were some frightening robot-like women doing gymnastics by a swimming pool on television after the film, and we sat in the cool and wrote diary things until time to pack our bags for the morning. We're off to the Cameron Highlands tomorrow, which is a tea plantation area in the mountains, which used to be a British settlement, I think. Since we're coming back to KL on Tuesday we'll only take our small bags and leave the big ones here.