Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Stanleys and I stayed in Chinatown, in Kuala Lumpur for the first 3 nights. Pentaling Street is in the center of Chinatown. It is a flea market where they sell lots of different things like watches, handbags, shoes, souvinairs, food and so much more. Most places around Kuala Lumpur don't open until 10 or 11am. Stall holders start setting up their stalls from about 10am and then from about 5pm even more stalls are opened down the middle of the street.

The metal boxes are more stalls being put out for the night time crowds.

Fruit stall

My favourite stall on Pentaling Street. It sells so many different types of fruit all cut up and ready to eat.

Photos from other areas of Chinatown

There is lots of places to buy food on the side of the road. There are inside restaurants like we have in New Zealand but there are more outside restaurants.

Barbeque fish

Some of the restaurants cook your food to order from a menu and others are buffet style where the food is cooked and you choose what you want.

The meat section of the local market.

A road in Chinatown

Brickfields (Little India), Kuala Lumpur

After Chinatown the Stanleys and I moved closer to KL Sentral and stayed in Little India which is also known as Brickfields.

We took a train into Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC).

There are lots of shopping malls, hotels, office buildings and a park.

The Petronas Towers, at 88 storeys, were the tallest buildings in the world until the end of 2004. They are still the tallest twin buildings in the world.  The skybridge (the bridge between them) is 2 storeys high and is at levels 41 and 42.

There are lots of different companies working out of the towers and there is a shopping mall and an aquarium under the towers.

There were less motorbikes and more cars in Kuala Lumpur, compared to Bali.

Jimbaran, Bali, Indonesia

Our last stop in Bali was in Jimbaran which is on the southwest coast of Bali, just below the airport.

Jimbaran Map

Jimbaran is famous for its seafood. The beach is lined with seafood restaurants and fishing boats.

The fish market is at the north end of the beach. It is very busy and smelly.

Arriving at the fish market

They sell fish inside and on the beach

Durian is a fruit that smells so bad it is banned from some hotels.

Dining on the beach

This man is collecting small shellfish. See the video below for a closer look.

Gili Air

Goodbye Gili Trawangan

The boat trip from Gili Trawangan to Gili Air took about 30  to 40  minutes, as we stopped at Gili Meno to drop people off. The Stanleys and I traveled on a boat the same as the one above.

Hello Gili Air

When we got to Gili Air, all of the passengers had to step off the back of the boat. If you did not time it correctly with the waves, you got very wet. The Stanleys were safe in a plastic bag in my bag. I only got wet up to my knees.

Gili Air doesn't have any motorised vehicles, just like Gili T. These horses are waiting for some passengers. It costs 100,000IRD for a ride. 

Some local children playing on a paddle board.

The Gili Air harbour is full of fishing, diving and passenger boats.

I hired a see-through plastic canoe. I left the Stanleys at home so they didn't get wet.

I could see fish swimming under the canoe. Most of the coral is dead so there isn't really any colour except for the fish. I have been told that fishermen used dynamite to catch fish and this is one of the reasons the coral has been destroyed. Maybe you can find out some more information about it. I wonder where the best place to look would be?

Locals unloading a boat of supplies.

The largest supermarket on Gili Air

There were piles of dried fish outside the door and they smelt like stinky old socks.

A local man heading out at sunrise to go fishing.

All sorts of things are carted in the horse carts. I saw rubbish, dirt and gravel, furniture and lots of people.

Children biking to school.

 School in the Gili Islands starts at 8am and finishes at 12pm. All of the children wear uniforms.

A local lady washing dishes