321 Flowers, birds and fish in KL 6.6.2019

In the morning, I went again to the shopping center under Petronas towers to get another “super-energy-smoothie” or whatever name would be appropriate. The center was nearly empty and at that booth was another shop assistant. The result was good but not the same as yesterday. On the way out I got a bit lost, because I used an exit that led me to the opposite direction. Although every tower and sky scraper around should look special and be a landmark, in the end I couldn’t tell which is which, with a few exceptions, and when I found them, I also found back to the hotel. After breakfast, we wanted to go to the botanical garden.

We used a MRT line and after leaving the station it was very difficult to find the way, even with GPS and directions on the phone. In the end, Hasmik called a taxi although I thought it could be only a few 100m. The driver could have thought the same, because the price was low. I followed the way that he went on my phone and saw it was a big round and after completing it, he said that he also couldn’t find the entrance. But the he asked someone, and we continued by walking. We needed to ask two more times until we finally were in. On our way we saw not much that distinguished that Botanical garden from a normal park. From top of a hill we could hear, and a little bit see something else, a bird park and decided to go there. On the way, we came to a closed exit with “staff only” and wondered how else we should have gone, but we could open it and left. Regarding the fact that we were so close to it, it was again hard to find the entrance of the Bird Park. There was a long queue and we waited more than 40min. We saw a family with two little girls and in one moment Hasmik couldn’t hold back anymore and went to them to talk and make selfies.

After the entrance their parents also wanted to take pictures with us and then we knew they are no tourists from India but locals from another Malaysian town. The Bird garden was quite big, and it was interesting to walk around with or through the birds. There were places to feed them and a place to take photos with parrots. The showiest bird was an ibis and we wondered why we only saw one.


Exactly when the “15:00-rain” started, we sat in a restaurant for a late lunch and after changing to our new room,

we went to the KLCC Aquarium. There, Hasmik had another encounter with strangers, 3 Muslim girls, on of them completely covered. She took selfies with them and we wondered how this open and friendly behavior goes together with this strange habit to cover the face. The highlight of the exhibition was a tunnel where you are surrounded by fish on the left and right and on top.

We walked around a bit after that but soon landed in our favorite fruit shop, where I bought another high energy oat smoothie, this time again made by the owner. Back in our hotel apartment, we watched the first 2 parts of a 5-part Chernobyl film. It was very hard for both of us but the film is worth seeing.

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