Sky-Bridge..worth the toil!

One of the things we completely intended to do during our trip to KL was to go up the towers and walk on the sky-bridge suspended between the two towers. My brother had said we should get in early! There was me thinking if I’m getting out bed at the crack of dawn, it had better be worth it!


We decided to make this trip on the last Friday before we left KL to go back home. Despite things getting rather hectic as the trip was almost coming to an end we stuck to the intended plan. Mum and dad didn't want to come but I was told I could get extra tickets so I had a small cunning plan. Having woken up at the crack of dawn, my head ached from the previous night! It's was a struggle getting the other two out of bed and finally left the hotel lobby at around 7.30, convinced we were behind schedule.


We got the mono-rail from Chow Kit and proceeded to head towards KL Sentral armed with my guide just in case. Once we got to Bukit Nanas stop, it suddenly occurred to me we were completely off track. In a panic we carried on to the next station and got off at Hang Tuah. We'd been near this station before I think or so I thought. Later I realised this was where China Town was. Had I known it then, we wouldn't have got off this station.


The place was like miles out of route for where we needed to be, and time was moving way too fast; the best approach was to hail a taxi. The other two looked at me with perplexed faces! I'm like OK, I know I’m your guide but I am trying my best here.


Hailing a taxi driver, who would use a meter in Hang Tuah, is like drawing blood from a stone and the bloody Chinese in KL are so arrogant and intimidating. I swear, nothing usually intimidates me but these drivers were awful. One guy got all funny and I could feel myself losing my temper, as I walked away spluttering every obscenity I could think of! He retorted back, which made me even angrier. In hindsight now I look back at the moment and think I was brave confronting this guy and cussing him, since he looked rather menacing!


We carried on a little further along the main road, trying my luck with some other drivers and eventually this guy stopped or so I thought it was a guy until I got up to the car and realised it was a woman! At first she was so blooming awkward, I could have clocked her one but eventually she backed down on the taxi fare and we agreed she would get us quickly outside the Tower entrance.


She turned out to be a somewhat decent driver. We chatted away about our trip and I still managed to go on about how unhappy I was about drivers not using meters, especially the Chinese, but credit to her she hurried us through shortcuts avoiding the morning traffic and got us right outside the entrance bang on before 8.30am.


We queued up a good hour, though it seemed like ages we finally got our tickets, I got a couple extra and we decided to go for the 9.30 view and I'd come back later that afternoon with mum and dad. Going up the lift was exhilarating and as we stepped out of the lift and walked onto the bridge, the view was magnificent. We could see far beyond and pointing out various landmarks that we had visited throughout our stay in KL. I’m not posting pictures unless I find one suitable, since most of them on looking back do not do any justice to what the view was like up there in veracity. I don't care what anyone says but seeing stuff from the top is awesome! When I took mum and dad back later that afternoon, the look on their faces was undeniably out of this world, they were both so awestruck with the whole experience including the exhibition and the presentation before the visit and I was so glad I had convinced them to experience it!


The Petronas Towers are superb work of architect and up until some years back, were the tallest towers in the World. But the distinction on it being the tallest building is beyond the real essence of the towers which as a tourist I could see and be part of. The towers have been maintained as an excellent link with the past and the future for the culture, heritage, technology and knowledge framework for the people of Malaysia :)

Aisha