KL Airport

We left the country yesterday. Hopped on a Malaysian Airlines plane and flew north east to KL airport for a brief.. like, twelve hour, stop over. Dusk was chasing us for most of the trip and finally caught up with, and overtook us, somewhere over Indonesia, and it was dark as we flew over Singapore. Our bodyclocks were reading something like 2:00am by the time we touched down.

We made the snap decision as we landed to try and find a room for the night, as opposed to just roughing it in the airport which was the mostly undiscussed, half baked plan up until that point. So we ended up renting a whole damn apartment for the night. Probably not the choicest of places to stay, but it was the only place on offer at that point and we’re both far better off for the sleep.

Waking up to humidity and looking out the window to low hazy mountains and sprawling middle-of-nowhere greenery put everything in perspective, and the fact that the room was over priced and sucked suddenly seemed to be a reasonable tradeoff for actually stepping outside the airport. I’m looking forward to our four day stay at the end of the holiday, I want to see a little more of this place. Pictures of that wakeup view to follow, once I source a USB cable for my camera - had to forget something!

So we were collected at 8:30 and brought back to the airport, where we’ve been killing time with coffee, breakfast and now we’ve found internet access… in a Burger King. Rather surreal. The terminal next to me is swimming in a pool of Fanta.. and the keyboards are as greasy as you would expect for a place that serves nuggets of deep fried goodness along with their internet access, and this is a prime “real world” (as the experts would say) example of why mice should all have evolved to have lasers instead of balls. If humans could make the same evolutionary leap all would be well in the world.

In about 40 minutes we board for the second leg, destination: Hanoi. Vietnam here we come!

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