Day 2: Kuala Lumpur and Pulau Ketam Tour

24 April 2010: I woke up quite early at 0615 hours. As it was still early and we planned to visit Pulau Ketam, I decided to tune in to Television and watched the local channel. I am quite surprised that ASTRO ACE channel features Singapore local Mediacorp TV shows! I guessed that Singapore show is quite popular in Malaysia media market.

At the same time waited for Mel to wake up. I tried my best to wake Mel but I failed. Finally, Mel woke up and both of us prepared ourselves and left the hotel. First thing first, we will be eating our breakfast first. We walked to LOT10 and eat Malaysian local food.

After eating our breakfast, we went to ride the monorail and alighted at KL Sentral and take about 15 minutes walk to KL Sentral hub (Note that KL Monorail is not linked with Putra LRT, KTM and bus terminus).

We got the ticket from the KTM ticket counter and went to Platform 5. After reaching the Port Klang Terminal (Apox 1hrs 50mins), you need to take High Speed Boat (Apox 30mins) to Pulau Ketam.

Pulau Ketam is actually a Chinese Fishing Village. The houses are all built on stilt above the mangrove swamps. Pulau Ketam is the only island where you cannot find any motor vehicles!! The only transport mode is through bicycle.

The living standard is very simple. From there, you will understand how lucky we are living in Modern World. It was a great exposes for me to visit to Pulau Ketam.

What more, the food was great!! Everything was fresh and home made! If you have the chance to travel to Kuala Lumpur, why not give yourself a half day trip to Pulau Ketam and experience it.

After our visit to Pulau Ketam, we took the KTM and back to KL Sentral and after which, we took the KTM again at Platform 6 to Mid Valley.

We head to Hong Kong KIM Gary for our dinner. After our dinner, we shop around at the Mid Valley before we are heading back to Bukit Bintang. At the same time, I finally got Malaysia Digi Prepaid card activated!!

Around 11plus pm, we went out with Wai for supper at Jalan Alor and then head down to A&W for root beet float. Actually wanted to eat the waffle ice-cream but un-fortune, it sold out!! It would be my greatest regret for not having A&W waffle ice-cream.