KL: Day 06 

Times Square

Day 6, done all the sight seeing stuff so it’s time to shop. Apart from everything being considerably cheaper than in Australia (except Vegemite), Kuala Lumpur is nearly focused entirely on shopping for tourists but judging from the amount of people crowding the various complexes around the city, the Malaysians love it too. Possibly the largest complex (I found) is Times Square. It’s ten stories of wall to wall stores, with a rollercoaster starting at the top and an IMAX theatre. I wasn’t planning to see Spiderman 3 while I’m here but I had a couple of hours to kill in the arvo and since it opened here first in the world, I attempted to buy IMAX tickets. Well my excitement was short lived when the ticket attendee told me there was not one single decent seat for 3 weeks! Yes they’re Spiderman crazy here too. Hanging my head in disappointment, I did find this store selling collector’s Coca Cola. Every coke imaginable was in here from just about every country. It was both strange yet disturbingly compelling. They had blue, red, purple, yellow coke bottles, wooden bottles, tiny matchstick bottles and pretty much everything in between. For Coke collector’s this store was a dream but like all collector’s items, nothing was cheap. Most on display were over AU$100.
The Coca Cola shop
Over AU$400 for this bottle

 
 
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