February Highlight: Genting Highlands Day Two

Day Two of my first Genting trip! Programme for the day: Chin Swee Temple, Strawberry Farm and Mushroom Farm. Yes, more pictures. They just say it all xD

Chin Swee Temple

Good morning! View from hotel room.

We are travelling by cable car down. Gulp!

The cable car experience is okay but I'm paranoid I guess. Nice experience though! Can ride on good weather days.

Yep. See how high it was? Lol...

Mushroom Farm

On our way down, we paid a visit to the Mushroom Farm and had our lunch nearby too. More pics!

Lunch. Bak Kut Teh. Not bad!

Off to the Mushroom farm. Honestly I had no idea mushrooms are grown like this. Hehe.

More pictures taken just outside the Mushroom Farm. Some sculptures and statues outside.

Strawberry Farm

Further downhill we stopped at the Strawberry Farm too. I heard the strawberries are better in Cameron Highlands. Still, this is my first Strawberry Farm ^^ At this height we can already slowly feel the heat xD

Besides strawberries, they also exhibit some other stuffs like bees, honeys etc.

After going around the farm and buying some strawberry products, we completed our journey back to the city. It was afternoon when I got back into my room and I felt like I just came back from another world. It's easy to see why people opted to go up to Genting for some quick getaway from the city; it gives you that sense of escape from reality and allows you to be a kid again.

February Highlight: Genting Highlands Day One

Thanks to the generosity of my friends for their invitation and accommodation, I had the chance finally to go to Genting Highlands! Heard of this place for a long time already and finally had the chance to go there! So we all went there for the Doraemon event that was happening at the same time, also to look at the fireworks display at night in celebration of Chap Goh Mei xD

Some interesting structures along the way up

As we go higher it's cooler, foggier and cloudier. Mountain feel FTW!

We finally reached and had a walk in the First World resort, and it's wonderful. It's a whole different world up here. Mini theme park, and everyone dressed in their warm clothes due to the cold. Awesome! And the casinos are in there too.

We actually queued for quite a long time outside for the Doraemon entry because of the huge crowd so we were all freezing because of the wind, despite the sun. However, we finally got in after more than 1hr and started our Doraemon tour.

Then we went and ate dinner and then walked around more in the First Resort. Then time to go out for the fireworks. It was awesome! :D

Again another 2hrs of standing outside but getting high. xD Afterwards we got some coffee then went back hotel to rest for the night.


Next up: Day Two!

Sept Highlight: Family's Vacation to KL Part II

Here you go, Part II!


27/9/2012

They're back and I met them at Hang Tuah and mom wasn't looking very pleased. I can only deduce my bro pissed her off again. Sigh. Anyway, we checked into our hotel and there was some difficulty bringing all that luggage to Bkt Bintang. We had dinner at Jalan Alor and after some argument abt where to go, we went to KLCC by taking monorail to Bkt Nanas then boarding the LRT there.

Dad wanted to see the Twin Tower at night and he got his wish, and we took some pics. However, mom was already very tired and sleepy so we all head back to hotel to rest for the night. Been a long journey for them and it's a shame they didn't get to explore KLCC more. Mom showed me some of the stuffs they bought from Universal Studios in Singapore and the pics they took there. Wish I'd gone with them! But then I didn't want to see my relatives in Batu Pahat so yeah.


28/9/2012

I went off early for work and left my family to walk on their own and met them after work at Pavilion. Dad thought I was gonna bring them to Nando's but I took them to Din Tai Fung instead and have them try the Xiao Long Bao there it was famous for. It was also a birthday dinner for my mom who had her bday 3 days earlier xD Then we walked abit in Pavilion then took the free bus back to hotel and rested. They had already went and explore in Plaza Low Yat and Dad nearly bought a new CPU which was ill-advised. How do you carry that back?

29/9/2012

Their final day in KL. And I brought them to the Aquaria in KLCC to see all the fishes and stuff. It was also my first time there! I was thrilled at seeing the creatures. It brought me to another world and calmed me abit (I wasn't happy at work). Mom paid for the tickets though she doesn't want me to overspend on them. What logic rite? I spend on my family is a rightful thing... haha...

And then we rushed back, checked out and then took taxi to KL Sentral to board the bus to the airport LCCT. Taxi guy kept telling us he can bring us direct to airport RM 85 to LCCT, RM 90 to KLIA but I declined. Soon we reached LCCT early and we had tea at Coffee Bean while we wait for the check-in counters to open(mom was so anxious abt the checking in lol). When it's done we sat at Starbucks passing time and I took a pic with them before they leave. Then they board the flight back and I'm happy they all came here and saw & experienced things. Most of all I'm happy to see them, but a bit sad I'm going back to the world without them and back to work.



All in all, I'm just glad we spent the time together :)