As part of not sitting on my arse all day, and it being such a lovely day today, I head out to the Lake Gardens for a stroll and to take some photos and I get a taxi there (takes about 10 minutes). It’s a lovely tranquil place and I wanted to spend the afternoon here, but unfortunately as I had left it to about 3 pm to actually head there, the humidity has built up and it feels very thunderous.
I am there for about 15 minutes when I feel the first drop of rain.
Uh-oh… there is usually little warning of a downpour and I was in the middle of a park, with little opportunity for shelter. I hurry towards the top end of the park, with the Hilton and Le Meridien hotels, to get some shelter and to find a taxi in the nearby Sentral Stesen (Central KL Train Station) and I forgot what hell it was trying to get from the Lake Gardens to the train station – the pavement just runs out and you have to cross what is essentially an eight-lane motorway and walk along a hard shoulder to get to the hotels. I went wrong and even the hard shoulder ran out!
Luckily it wasn’t that busy; even luckier there were a few taxis on the road; luckier still, one actually stopped for me on the motorway and it was a good job – a minute later there was a torrential downpour which I just narrowly escape.
Lake Gardens trip aborted!
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