Hop on, Hop off - The Hopper!

We are in Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia. Today we were 100% tourist. We rode a hop on - hop off bus all around the city. It was great! I think every big city should have one of these. Took us to all the major buildings / attractions around the city. We got picked up at stop #7, right in front of our guesthouse. We road the bus pretty much all the way around picking the stops we wanted to get off on next time around. There were 22 stops total so the whole round trip took a good hour.
Our first stop was the two towers. They were pretty amazing. Very similar to our late Two Towers. We got tickets to go up to the top to see the whole city but the only tickets left were at 6pm. We didn't make it back in time to go up to the top and acutally the weather here wasn't very good for anything at 6pm. It has been raining everyday around 3:30 and keeps on raining until about 8ish. We haven't had rain at all on this trip before here so we kinda like it. Makes this humid hot city a little cooler. We might start cursing it if it continues to hang around when we make it to Bali.

Our second stop was at the Menara building. This one we actually did get to go up to the top of. 441 meters high (or something like that). You can walk around the top and see the entire city from all the angles. They even give you a little dvd player to walk around with that tells you history and different facts about buildings and the city.

But the best part of the Menara was right out front...

The Malaysians apparentley think it is a good idea to keep a huge Christmas Winter Wonderland out in front of this building. We have no idea why by the end of January they still haven't taken it down or changed it or why they treat it as an amusement park. A little silly, but definitely good for a few pictures.

There was also an Animal Zone right next to the Menara. It was filled with snakes and turtles and lizards, but there were also monkeys and racoons and birds AND my new favorite animal:
The Fennec Fox. He is soooo cute with his huge eyes. He definitely wanted us to take him home.

The HUGE African Bullfrog was pretty awesome too!

Besides sunsets, we of course are also very obsessed with flowers. Along our hopper trip there was an Orchid garden that required a lot of our attention. It was so beautiful.

Combined we probably have about 50 pictures of these flowers. It was amazing to see how many different kinds of Orchids were growing all around the garden.

BE-A-U-TIFUL!