After exploring Melaka I jumped on bus for Kuala Lumpur . Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malaysia and in the local language the name means 'muddy confluence ' an apt description of the two rather brown rivers that meet in the city centre . Despite the name , Kuala Lumpur is a very smart place ; its a far cry from the large conurbations of Indonesia .

The most famous of all the skyscrapers is the tallest building in the world , the Petronas Twin Towers . At 451.9m above sea level , if is a monster of chrome and glass thats made up of two huge tower , joined by a bridge halfway up. It will,no doubt , be relegated to the second highest buiding in the world before long (I hear that someone is bulding a bigger one in Beijing ),  but until then its more impressive precisely because you known that its bigger than anything else .When building get above a certain heights, they all look like same . they're monstrously big. I just pity the poor window cleaner =[

Arriving

in KL on Thursday , I found a place , wandered around town for a while , and ended up eating in a steam cafe . Asian city streets kerbs and open drains along the road sides . and until now it had felt more like a pedestrian inconvenience than a sensible idea but once you see astorm hit KL.