We had a straight flight from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur to continue our journey in Malaysia. In the airport when getting to the security check, Valeria’s passport peeped, so the guard called another guard who took her passport and took her away. Luckily, it was not anything serious, she just had a powerbank in her backpack and those are apparently allowed only in hand luggage. In the end, we travelled safely to Malaysia. In Kuala Lumpur airport we were looking a way to get to the city center and managed to get there, that we later realized, most expensive way by train.

Our hostel was in a suburb a bit out of the city center,  10 stops with the metro. But the metro system is well planned and cheap so it was easy to travel with it in and out of the city center. A small hostel sign in front of the building and staircase leading to the second floor. The hostel itself was basic but it had a really good vibe. It felt like all guests and staff were just roommates sharing a flat. In the evening all hanged around in the living room and watched a movie. And there were also living a cat and her super cute five-weeks-old kittens. All five kittens lived in the living room, and their living pattern was simple: sleep, eat, play, repeat.

The day we arrived we had two plans: visit the central market and maybe buy some long hippie pants (especially Valeria wanted something light to wear that would be appropriate in mostly Muslim country), and visit the eco park with a canopy walk in the center. We managed with the first one (both got pants, some nice fruit juice and local snacks), but with the second we were too late. Moving as a pedestrian in Kuala Lumpur is slow and difficult, the city is clearly not designed for walking.

The second day we were going to join a free walking tour that started at nine. We woke up, and fell asleep again. So we had our own walking tour. First we went to the eco park again and this time we managed to get in. Here we saw the first monkeys (of many to come). The park was nice, a little piece of jungle on the middle of the city. There were nice walking routes going all around the park and a canopy walk above the tree line. 

After the eco park we headed to the Bird park, which was advertised to be the biggest free-flight aviary. And again, getting there was quite a walk altough on the map it seemed to be quite close. We circled around the streets and buildings before we could get in. But finally we found it (and found out it was pretty expensive, 67RM!). The park was nice and especially furry-looking cattle egrets were abundant and cute all around the park. Unfortunately it was not free-flight for every one, and some birds were in smaller cages. Here we also saw some “free-flight” monkeys.