As I was updating our official Travel Younger blog (www.travelyounger.com/blog), I realized that it was #200 since we started our journey on Feb 17, 2019. That’s a lot of stories to tell, and there are many more to come. This one is just for fun since I noted some things that we have seen in Kuala Lumpur (and Asia), that we don’t see other places. Once again, thanks for following us!

• Running hajib: Nike (and other athletic companies) have to supply an entire world with their products, and that includes running gear for Muslim women who must keep their head covered. THIS was a first.

• A helmet left on a bike: This is pretty simple: in most countries (or the US) hardly anyone would leave bike gear out in the open for fear of theft. We see MANY bike helmets left on the bikes, and no one is worried. How cool is that?

• A Very Expensive Skate Park! The price of land in downtown KL is expensive, about $536 per sq ft, yet here sits a quite large skate park to entertain the crowd. I thought this noteworthy.

• Chocolate orange Kit Kat!, plus MANY other flavors you just don’t find in the US. Going into a grocery store is a bit like Wonderland, and every aisle becomes a new adventure.

• Huge fruit everywhere!

• The Telecom Museum was very cool, even for non-geeks, and they had a terrific collection of old phones, including this classic I held in my hand.

• The population of KL is about 2 million, which is MUCH larger of a city than I normally feel comfortable. Yet this town is not crazy or chaotic–though traffic can be a bugger (we usually avoid it). But I was looking for a place to hike and found Bukit Nanas Eco-park, just a 15 minute walk from our apt. It’s a full on jungle, but with paths and walkways–and even swinging bridges to get elevation. Oh, and there be monkeys!! It’s weird standing in a forest looking at the KL tower, one of the largest free-standing structures in the world.

• We went on a food tour and experienced some new food–and of course we forget their names! This pile of snails grossed Kat out, and she said it looked like moving s..t…I can’t disagree!

We’ve been in KL and Malaysia for almost three weeks and we keep asking ourselves, “What doesn’t work for us here?” So far we have no answer, so that’s a good thing