We arrived at Port Klang in the dark and were tied up at the dock by 6am. After breakfast we met in the showroom at 7:15 for our HAL TOUR, Best of Kuala Lumpur. However, the ship wasn't cleared until nearly 7:45am. It was then another long walk to the port exit outside the port building where our bus #2 was waiting.
It was an hour plus ride into Kuala Lumpur and our first stop was the Royal Palace where there was another organized dance of over 50 buses each containing some 40 people. And all vied for a parking spot. We had 15 minutes to take pictures of this very scenic palace with 2,000 of our new close friends.
From there we went to the Royal Selangor pewter factory. It was fascinating to watch the manufacturing process, but a group of 20 was too large for the guide to effectively provide commentary. After leaving the factory a few minutes later we had the opportunity to photograph the Petronas twin towers which were once the tallest in the world.
A yummy buffet lunch was served at the Big Apple restaurant in the Berjaya Hotel at Times Square before we headed over to visit Independence Square and then stroll through Chinatown and visit the Central Market (established in 1888) for last minute shopping.
We then had an hour ride back to the port where we were greeted by the sight of a large cruise ship berthed across the dock from us. It was the Genting Dream which is a fairly new cruise ship owned by a Hong Kong company and filled with Chinese Tourists. That ship's capacity is 3500 guests or about 3 times our capacity.
We promply but slowly backed out of our berth at 5pm with the assistance of a tug, rotated clockwise, and sailed out of the harbor into the open sea. Our last Lido dinner was a nice turkey, stuffed green pepper, fried mushrooms and artichokes meal and a Valentines Day heart chocolate. I partially packed and we took a break to attend the 8pm Jonathan Johnston flautist show which was excellent. We also said our goodbyes to Carol and then finished packing so we could put our luggage tonight out for transfer shoreside tomorrow morning in Singapore.
Tomorrow we don't disembark until 9:15am and will take a city tour before reaching Changi for our flight home via San Francisco. And so ends a wonderful cruise with all but the beginning and ending ports being brand new. We look forward to rejoining the ship in July in Seattle for a much longer voyage. I'll blog that voyage as well. If you want to continue following along, I'll put a link in this blog in July or if you are on Cruise Critic, the link will be there. Or you can email me. Thanks for following along.
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