The first evening we found The Australian Bar. Not really throwing ourselves into the Asian culture, sure, but the first place with seats we came across. The reason why I mention it (apart from the good steaks and cold Coke) is because it was our introduction to the Asian service. Our waiter, Punj, was superb, could not do enough for us and was happy to teach us our first Malaysian pronunciation.

Our tour operator told us about Times Square, a new mall that had opened the day before, and as we were in the market for purchasing a camcorder we made it our first stop. The place is huge - the biggest in Asia and the second/third largest in the world? Something like that. Again, the Asian service. Sure CK wanted to sell us a camera, the store only opened the day before and was still in slight disarray, but the service was again excellent.

We made our way to the Petronas Towers for the obligatory view from the Skybridge. The towers are far more stunning in real life. Stand at the bottom and then follow the building up to the top – bet you fall over backwards. The excellent thing about this sight seeing attraction is that the tickets are free – yes free! You are given a timeslot and have to report back at the building at the given time. We had four hours to wait so we went to the shopping mall next-door and drooled at designer names such as Prada. Still out of my price range! I would recommend getting there early, friends of ours did and they only had to wait an hour or so.

The view from the sky bridge was worth the wait, now when the Malaysian Grand Prix is on the TV we can shout ‘been there!’

Chinatown was amazing, the fake watch thing done, we headed back to our hotel (The Federal Hotel).