Sunday, 29 November 2009

A safe arrival and the program begins!

Yesterday afternoon we arrived at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport's Low Cost Carrier Terminal (otherwise known by the massive acronym KLIA-LCCT). It was humid getting off the plane but fortunately not too hot. 

The immigration arrival area of the LCCT is a bit like a giant shed...and it was pretty packed! We had to wait about 20-30 minutes in the line for our turn, but happily everyone got through immigration okay :)

The good thing about waiting a long time at immigration is that you don't have to wait a long time for your bags, and all of ours were through pretty quickly. There were a few nervous moments when we thought Colette's may have been lost, but in the end it was there too - phew!

Rithzuan, from Asian Overland Travel, was waiting outside past customs for us. He's a funny, jolly fellow who used to be a chef and seemed really pleased to be telling us about Malaysian food, as well as all the info about this part of Malaysia. The driver, Mr Mizi, took us the 1 hour drive from the airport to the Renaissance Hotel and there was even a solid downpour to welcome us to KL.

Checked in to the Renaissance and, after a shower and change of clothes, headed out for the short walk to the Petronas Towers and the Suria KLCC shopping centre food court for dinner.


Tomorrow we have our first tour of KL city!