13 museums that are fascinating, exquisite, weird, wacky and some are just down-right gruesome! 11 top travel bloggers share their favourite museums from around the world. From the exquisite Lourve Abu Dhabi to the wacky Walmart museum. Open air museums such as Port Arthur and 1880 Town to the gruesome Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. This list has it all!
There are so many free things to do in Kuala Lumpur I’m sure I have only just scratched the surface. The following list includes religious temples/mosques, museum and galleries, parks and gardens, colonial history and markets!
Our first year cruising outside of Australian waters has included Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Some countries we sailed to and others we flew to; we even rode into one and caught a bus into another. This blog is a recap of our journey in 2015….. Thank you to all our followers. I hope you will continue to cruise with us in 2016, and that I will be able to carry on entertaining and informing you about the wonderful, exciting and sometimes bewildering places we visit.
There is an abundance of things to see and do in Kuala Lumpur. We only brushed the surface with the things we did during our six days and nights. We stayed in Chinatown before moving to Hotel 99 in the Bukit Bintang area. Both these areas, within walking distance from each other, had good public transport and there was a lot to see and do. The public transport was easy to use… the trains more so than the buses. The many train lines have good, easy to read, timetables and a search on the web will deliver all the details you need beforehand to tell you the closest station to where you are and what train you need to get where you want to go.
Our trip to Kuala Lumpur was an unexpected and unwanted expense. However, as always, we are thrilled to be able to travel and see new places; so we wanted to make the most of it…. We’d just do Kuala Lumper on a shoestring! How to do KL on a shoestring? Firstly I got on the net and found cheap flights to KL and booked a hotel through Wotif that was close to public transport. The flights cost AUS $100 each return. These were the cheapest flight out of, and back into, Bali that we could find, hence going to KL. Then I googled what to do in KL and found some inexpensive and free places to visit…