Kuala Lumpur - Temples and Birds

Next up, the kids planned on a culture tour to see the Batu Caves and other religious sites. They chose this because they knew I would want to do it. I was so proud. 

The Batu Caves is a Hindu temple featuring 272 colorful steps built into an ancient limestone cave. It was one of the prettiest Hindu temples I have ever seen. 

While very interesting, Lucy was not happy about the many monkeys that were roaming around. Monkeys are very cute until they snatch your things or in Lucy’s case kept lunging at her. 

Monkey who took someone's offering

Then we went on to learn about batik painting, a traditional style that used wax and dye to create designs on silk. Our tour guide also advised us that this would be a good place to buy headscarves for Lucy and me to wear when we later visited the Mosque. 

Next up was the National Mosque of Malaysia. Lucy and I got our scarfs on and I additionally needed to cover my arms as we walked around this mosque, whose design was apparently modeled after a partially open umbrella. 

Inside the mosque. Why is Lucy so cute in a headscarf?

The mosque had a good view of the Merdeka 118, the 2nd tallest building in the world.

Last stop for the culture tour was the Chinese Temple

It was so interesting to see three very different forms of worship back to back. 

Later in the evening, we walked to Little India and had some biryani on banana leaves that came served from bamboo.  

On our last day in Kuala Lumpur, the kids planned for us to go to the Bird Park. This was a really fun surprise. I wasn’t expecting much because, you know, birds. 

But we had a lot of fun here. 

Oh and Malaysia is hot, so hot you get sweaty, so sweaty the birds like to lick your forehead.

And. we couldn't leave Kuala Lumpur without visiting at least one mall.

This one is connected to our hotel and the train station and had to be around 9 floors.