The Petronas towers and more

Everyday they give for free a certain amount of tickets to visit the sky bridge of the Petronas towers. It's the icon of the city and an absolute no miss. Now to make sure you have a ticket, you should reach the towers before 8:30am and queue.
First day of vacation and we woke up at 6:30am... can we really call this vacation?

We arrived at the towers a bit before 8:30am and join the hundreds of people already queuing.
We waited, nicely sitting on the floor until distribution would start.

As we were progressing in the queue we reach a screen showing the number of tickets left for each time of the day. As the numbers are going down we get more and more stressed. Will we get tickets? Especially when some people take 20 tickets at once, for a group...

After 1 hour of queuing or so we managed to get tickets for 12:45. Now what do we do in the coming 3 hours?
We walked to Menara Kuala Lumpur, which is the fourth tallest telecommunication tower in the world and which offer an amazing view on the whole city. 360 degrees view even. Sadly for us there was a lot of fog today and we couldn't see far away. I still tried to capture the view but the combination of slightly tainted windows and fog didn't help.

The good thing in KL is that everything (or almost) is walking distance from each other (15-20min). After the Menara KL tower we then walked back to the Petronas towers for our visit. To kill a bit of the time we explored the luxurious shopping center at the base of the towers. All luxury designers were there. Seems like KL is a place for shopping. If only they would offer clothes in sizes for taller/larger people vs. Asian :(
The towers from the ground:

And the typical tourist photos:

Visit started with a video on Petronas oil company and then we took an elevator to the sky bridge. Once up there they give you 15min to walk and take photos (which we did of course) and then they take you back down. All in all it takes 30min.

While we were lower than the Menara KL tower, the view from the bridge was better.

We left KLCC (Kuala Lumpur City Center) for Little India.
Little India is, as its name says, small, a couple of blocks roughly which we quickly covered. The nice thing about this part of the city are the colorful houses. It really makes the difference.

We of course took the opportunity to eat Indian. Plenty of naans to make both Alice and Lamia happy :)

80% of people in Malaysia are Muslim. Therefore most women wear a veil. The good surprise was that in Little India you can find dozens of shops selling veils. Any color you want you will find it there. On top of the choice of colors they also have glitter or embroidery. Veil is a fashion accessory in Malaysia, which women leverage.
Further down in the city we found Chinatown. It was a big disappointment. We were expecting to find back a bit of China and found mostly one street selling fakes. Having spent one year in China it is really disappointing to see it reduced to a market for fakes (even if China is famous for it).

Even the few temples around are not worth the detour, especially once you've seen the one in China. All the guides recommend to visit Chinatown, I would advise you to skip it. Not worth the walk.

To recover from the disappointment we decided to have a massage. We started wondering whether we should aim to have one massage each day of the vacation...tempting thought...
Fish spa was complimentary and it confirmed that I am not a big fan. But by now I have the smoothest feet ever. Fish spa was followed by full Chinese body massage. And like yesterday, there were some signifiant nods here and there. It hurt, but felt good afterwards.

Refreshed after the massage we walked back to our area and had dinner at Crystal Jade restaurant. Once again great Chinese food... I know realize how much I missed it. They even had my favourite beans!
To finish the day, a little bit more walking the streets of KL by night; as if we hadn't walked enough.
We reached the hostel at 11pm, ready to sleep. It has been quite a long day.