Updated on 29-11-2012



My 1st Kuala Lumpur Trip
21st to 29th November 2006

Updated on 29-11-2012


6th  Day
26th November 2006 Sunday

26-11-2006 SUN 7:13PM


We took the 10:30 am TRANSNASIONAL bus at Malacca bus station back to Kuala Lumpur.

Adult Rm 9.40

Child Rm 4.70


Today we will start out exciting journey to Genting Highland. AirAsia has a Van service for passengers going to Genting Highland directly from LCCT or from KL Sentral. 

For those who goes directly from LCC terminal to Genting, just check out at the AirAsia counter.

The road to the top is actually a 4-lane highway winding to the misty mountain of Genting Highlands Resort. Clean air and lush greenery of The City of Entertainment greeted us at the top. In this city were casino , golf courses, outdoor and indoor theme parks, restaurants, and malls.

Genting Highlands is 55 kilometers from Kuala Lumpur.  We took the express bus (not Sky Van) from KL Sentral up to SkyWay of Genting at the middle of mountain and from there by SkyWay to the Genting Resort on top of the mountain.

On the way we pass through PEACE HEAVEN

Remarks : After this trip, our family came to Genting again in 2007. See : Family trip to Genting Highlands 2007


 

GENTING HIGHLANDS
http://wikitravel.org/en/Genting_Highlands

25-27 November 2006

GENTING HIGHLANDS

A modern integrated family entertainment resort, Genting Highlands features six hotels with 9,000 hotel rooms, over 90 foods outlets, a shopping paradise of over 80 stores, indoor and outdoor theme parks with more than 60 fun rides, and over 10 leisure and entertainment venues.

We came for 2 nights leisure and entertainment in this resort. Arriving 25th and leaving 27th November 2006.


Skyway
South East Asia's Longest Cable Car System

Hassle-free ride on the Genting Skyway up to Genting Highland. Moving at a maximum speed of 21.6km per hour above tree tops of tropical jungle with fantastic view of breathtaking mountain scenery.

This Genting Skyway cable car is the longest in Southeast Asia. It is 3.38km from lower station to upper station. Opened to public on February 9, 1997, the journey takes 11 minutes.

Along the way are animatronics (animation of sculptured animals and 'orang asli'). It's a relaxing and fun experience that sharpens your senses.
It was an amazing ride high in the air. Your whole surroundings is covered entirely by mist and pure air and mystical fog hangs over the hills.

2 types of Buses from KL city to Genting:
1) Directly to Genting Resort.
2) To Skyway Station only. From here the passenger transit to cable cars.

We want to try the cable car at the mid hill so we took the second type, Bus from KL Sentral up to SkyWay Station only.

Get the ticket from 2nd floor of KL Sentral. Bus boarding is at ground floor. (same platform with SkyBus to LCCT)
Adult Rm: 7.30
Child Rm: 5.70

The bus leave intime at 3:00PM from KL Sentral

Skyway Station is at the mid hill before reaching the resort - see above insert photo at right.


 Started

Here is our time log-book for any one looking for traveling time reference. (times rounded up to nearest 10 minutes)

Arrived

3:00 PM
KL Sentral

3 PM the bus leave Kuala Lumpur Sentral station and arrived Skyway station at 4PM 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Arrived at Skyway ststion. About 15 minutes for walking and queuing from bus stop to the cable car entrance. Long queue due to holiday season  
4:15 PM 4:15 PM Cable car leave station up the hill to Genting Highland and arrived around 4:30 PM 4:30 PM
4:30 PM 4:30 PM After reaching Genting mountain top, several times we have to ask for direction to First World Hotel. It such a huge place with many people. By the time we found the check-in counter of First World Hotel, it was about 5:00 PM

5:00 PM
Check-in counter

 

First Impression of Genting Highlands

First Impression of First World Plaza, of Genting Highlands

We spend half an hour to walk from the dropping point of SkyWay to First World Hotel.  I first came to Genting Highland in 1981. At that time this place was not a City of Entertainment yet. It was a gambling resort then.   Today we were totally lost inside  the building mazes.

We asked for direction from the security guides and shop employees, and they were all helpful, fortunately. Genting Highland employs 10,000 over people.


 
Indoor Theme Park at Night

After settle down in our  hotel room with a short rest, we came down to the Plaza at 7:00PM. Outdoor Park being closed and the Magic show will start only at 9:00PM, we have around 2 hours to explore the Indoor Park in the Plaza. But first we find some thing to eat and the menu are expensive for us.

There are plenty of food outlet and snack kiosks but prices higher then normal.

The Indoor Theme Park is located at the First World Plaza within the same building of First World Hotel.

We walked around the indoor. There is a restaurant with long tubes of spice on the walls. We saw the Eiffel Tower. And there is the statue of liberty riding a motobike. In the middle of the arcade is a larger-than-life Oscars statue.

Indoor theme park is open until late night while Outdoor theme park remains open upto evening.  Indoor Park is smaller than the Outdoor Theme Park.


Once enter the Theme Park, there is a small scale of Paris Eiffel Tower below that is the children ride - Ride De Paris.
Popular Indoor rides include Euro Express, Rio Float, Reindeer Cruiser and Mini Train.
Children enjoy Junior Bumper Car, Carousel and Ride de Paris.


There is a 4D cinema called 4D Motion Master.
Some people smoke openly in this Indoor Park. This ruin the mountain fresh air environment.

We see mostly local Malaysian. Hardly any Westerner seen here. Super crowded and noisy.


Cold at night remember to bring jacket, scarf and hat the next trip.
Statue of Liberty's right eye is brighter then the other. The light bulb of the left eye is likely burn out and need replacement.


 
9:00 PM Magic Show -

MYSTERIA - Believe The Impossible

....Thousands of years ago in Ancient Egypt, a brave slave girl speaks out against the cruelty of her captors and she is chased across the desert.

She is saved by a Magician and his traveling band of companions, acrobats, a crossbow act, dancers and two beautiful tigers ................

She soon falls in love with the Magician, only to be rejected. Heartbroken, she runs away................

We enjoy this Mysteria show and impressed with the stage setup in Egyptian backdrops. The pavilion was filled to it’s brim with 2,000 audiences capacity. Fantastic lighting and costume designs.

The backdrop changed fluidly without audiences realizing it until the lighting suddenly changes color and all in a suddenly the background looks different.

The show was a  combination of theatre drama, magical illusions and a colourful world of tigers, acrobats and beautiful dancers – all within the backdrop of ancient Egypt.

The highlight in magic stunts when the magician locked a beautiful girl into the cage and came out as an equally beautiful real tiger.

Tim Kole, the master illusionist from Las Vegas, appeared at key points of the show.

“It is the biggest production this stage has ever seen. We have never gone this crazy before,”

K.L. Ng, Resorts World Berhad promotions vice president said during the unveiling of “Mysteria” at The Pavillion in January 2006.

The show was close to 1.5 hours long.

Link : RM12m show of drama and magic
Link : Magic that is Mysteria

Our ticket for this show is included in our Genting 3D/2N online package. Presented in the show are big group of Indian tourist (about 200) who travel on group. Many travel the Cruises package. This is the first time I saw that many Indian tourists in Malaysia.

Impressive are the Chinese Acrobats from Henan made up of young kids. (see our group photo below after the show)

One exciting part was an acrobatic stunt by the kids:
The ancient Egypt King and Queen watch on their high throne over the performance of the slaves. The first kid comes in with a chair and stands upside down on top of the chair, second kid comes, and places her chair on the previous kid’s chair, and stands upside-down on top of the second chair, and so on.............. until there was a chain of 8 chairs one on each other upward. See photo insert above at left.
 

No photography is allowed inside the Pavilion. (I snapped a few)

However audient has the opportunity of having a group photo with some performers and dancers after the show by their official photographer for Rm20.00 (US$3.00).

We had one.



 
Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
 

Definitely something that we do not like to miss in Genting Highland.
At the entrance of Ripley’s in Genting are model statues of the tallest man in the world, the heaviest and the smallest. The world’s heaviest man is from Conga and he weighs in at 636kg! These three form the welcome bandwagon, inviting you to enter their extraordinary world.


There is a water tap flowing without support…Xing took a long time to examine how this huge size stand in the air with no support yet more puzzle to us was where does the continuous flow of water came from ?


RM18 for adult and RM15 for children below 12. The entrance ticket fee included two section : The Haunted House and Reply


Before entering the Repley Museum one first walk through the gates of the Haunted Adventure where the "Hundred Year Old Coffin of Terror" and other spooky nature await you. This part is not for the faint-hearted!


Almost all visitors are young unmarried teenage. Several girls keep screaming. The several 'ghost' are actually amateur 'actors' paid to provide the trill entertainment. These 'ghost' are rather 'ham sap' in a sense that they particularly interested in disturbing young girls entered the haunted house.


A one point in the almost complete darkness, we dimly saw a door open slow in front of us and some one dress in dark was slowing moving out. I put my light bar toward and saw a clearer view of the face of this ghost. But the ghost suppose to do some trill to the visitor to create excitement did not do any thing. Surely, he saw that the two of us just one old man and one big boy, there is no fun to create. But situation will be completely different if I am a sexy lady with a pretty girl inside this haunted house.


The Believe It or Not franchise started in 1918 as a newspaper cartoon panel featuring unusual and startling facts from around the world.



Conceived and drawn by Robert Ripley, the panel proved popular and was later adapted into a wide variety of formats, including radio, television, a chain of museums and a book series.


Here we find the unbelievable, the incredible and unforgettable.

These are 500 exhibits at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum at the First World Plaza, one of 27 such museums in the world.

The museums showcase the lifetime work of Robert Ripley, born in 1893, who first gained fame in 1918 as a newspaper panel cartoonist featuring unusual and startling facts from around the world. Part of these collections of oddities, spectaculars and the unimaginable are originals but most are replicas constructed and shipped from Orlando, the headquarters in Florida.


We saw the diamond in the box…whereby we try to get hold of it but can’t. All these 500 over exhibits are displayed in Mr. Ripley Gallery, Animal Gallery, World's Record, Oddities Gallery etc.


Rub For Fertility is one of the exhibits from Africa’s Ivory Coast. This Fertility Statues reputed to help married couples conceive.

Aspiring parents have diligently rubbed these statues which are said to have brought good luck and success to 935 couples in its first year of traveling outside the Ripley HQ.

Prisons, torture chambers and incarceration have always been a fascination for many people. Is it the sadistic side of all of us? Tiny windowless isolation cells vividly portray the mental torture of total lack of human contact. Then there are iron balls and chains, roasting and stretching platforms, spiked collars and other ingenious ways to inflict the greatest pain.

We took our time to stroll through these rooms, examining and reading about each fascinating subject and wax model. Hundreds of mind-boggling exhibits can keep you occupied for hours.


The other galleries include special ones for animals, history, art, costumes, transport, oddities, primitive, restrooms (this one you must see for its humor aspect), tilt room and peeping hole.


I left a frozen shadow behind on that black wall but the frozen shadow did not frozen for ever. The shadow melt several seconds later.
Xing do enjoy with all the mysteries and unbelievable stuff being shown in the Ripley’s showroom.


It was well passed midnight and we were the last visitors of the day to leave the museum. Preparing to close the museum for the day, the staff also switch off unnecessary lighting and equipment at the time we were leaving the museum. We had a last look at the mystery floating water tap that had continuous flow of water from unknown source, and we found the answer. With the water pump switch off, the water stopped flowing and the secrete of how this water tap float in the air revealed before our eyes.


Our visit to Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museum has a turn in full cycle.
 


BOOKING

One month before I booked hotel accommodation in Genting online through Genting's web site and paid by credit card Rm 317.76.

I choose the Executive room which is bigger then the standard room which most people complained being too small.

The Room rate is Rm 158.88 per night with two single beds. Breakfast for two included.
The counter staff gave us a room in the highest floor.
 

Genting Theme Parks Guide


This Guide is available at major entrance at Genting Resort for FREE.


Get a copy upon arrival. If you do not see one around, ask one from your hotel counter staff.

3 Theme Park Map Directories located at the following areas:

a) Millennium Square (near to the Double Deck Carousel)
b) Genting Lane (near to the Pirate Train)
c) Near Sungai Rejang Flume Ride
 

 
From Memory Card to CD

My digital camera memory full - Where to find a photo shop to transfer digital photos to a CD.

In the Indoor Theme Park of First World Plaza, go to level 2. there is a small kiosk name QUICK FOTO the attendants burn CD for Rm15.00 each. Here you can buy films, print photos. QUICK FOTO is the official photographer for the Magic Show. The kiosk is outsite the show Pavilion.


55km (about an hour) of scenic drive from the bustling metropolis of Kuala Lumpur is Genting Highlands Resort - City of Entertainment. Situated at 6,000 feet above sea level, Genting has everything to offer including natural cool mountain air and 24 hours of non-stop entertainment catering for the many diverse visitors from all over the world.

Genting also has the distinction of having Genting Skyway - “the longest cable car in Southeast Asia”.

From Cable Car station it took us 45 minutes walk from the station to First World Hotel where we had a reservation of 2 nights.
 

  • A fantasyland full of fun and adventure with super-exciting video arcade games amidst a futuristic atmosphere. A multi million ringgit  playground with 40 rides, making it Malaysia's biggest theme park.

     
  • Outdoor Theme Park
    The cool mountain air makes it an exhilarating experience to enjoy the many rides at the Outdoor Theme Park. Whether taking leisure drives in the Antique car or experiencing the adrenaline pumping Space Shot, it's a magical adventure of fun and excitement for the whole family!
     
  • First World Theme Park
    Exciting suspended rides, gondola ride with sweet strains of a serenade in the air, & for European carnival-like atmosphere make your way to carousel and Ferris Wheel.

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