Second day

Today was a very busy day. We started by swinging by my Dad's office and then heading just outside of the city to feed wild monkeys. Yesterday we purchased tiny bananas and the monkeys noticed these right away and headed towards us as soon as we got out of the car. These monkeys were a lot larger than I expected. I wanted to feed the cute little babies and females because the males were quite intimidating, but it wasn't up to me and I quickly ended up giving one large monkey 3 of our bananas, which didn't last very long. The highlight of this part of the day was when Sarah was waiting for a small monkey to grab a banana out of her hand and a MUCH larger monkey sneaked up to her and touched her leg (which my dad saw coming but decided not to mention), needless to say this made both of us jump, Sarah throw the banana and other people around us laugh.

After this we came back the the apartment, grabbed spicy noodles for lunch and decided to go on a walking tour of Chinatown. We walked from the apt. to the tube and got off several minutes later.  We walked through central market which has many small shops that sold a variety of items ranging from masks to flip flops. In central market was a place where you could get a pedicure from fish. We all decided that we wanted to give the fish a try and submerged our feet in the water. The fish immediately started nibbling away at our feet. It really tickled! They did a fantastic job of removing our callouses! We then left central market and walked around chinatown looking at  old buildings and a clock tower from the 1930's. We then tried teh tarik (tea with evaporated milk, which is amazing!), saw a pretty mosque and then headed to petaling street, which is very well known for its imitation merchandise. It was pretty humorous to listen to the heckling and interact with the sales people. It was insanely crowded and a lot bigger than I had expected.

Tomorrow we plan on leaving the apartment early and driving to the city-state of Melaka, which is a coastal town that was once owned by the Portuguese. It  used to be one of the greatest trading ports in Southeast Asia and is well known for its seafood.