Awana Golf Highlands & Country Resort Genting Highlands

... Aside from looking like they are asking to be bombed (they stand out from miles away and are sooooooo tall) they are just fabulous!! Definate photo taking opportunity!! After a few snaps we went inside the shopping mall in between the two towers where I found a SUBWAY sign but refrained from hunting for the actual shop which I am sure you will be most impressed at!!

After heading back towards Hostel Cosmopolitan (thought I would ...

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After my exciting exchange I headed to the KL Tower – the fourth highest telecommunications tower in the world at 421 meters fact fans! - and it really is impressive. You get to go up to a viewing platform that is actually higher than the one at the Petronas Towers even though the Petronas are higher overall. It wasn't until the next day that I got to go up that one though (the fifth largest building in the world at 452 metres tall in case you were wondering.) You ...

... country. Oooo... Muslims... durka, durka... so scary (you
shouldn't go there!). Hardly, I was excited for a country that was diversified
in it's culture, and made up of Malays, Chinese, and Indians. Malaysia is a
multicultural nation, and one that is forward thinking, altruistic, and open to
other cultures.
Kuala Lumpur
My plane came into a vast expanse of palm forests. Yes, real palm forests with
brown rivers and two track dirt roads ...

... small amusement park/garden place RIGHT next to some Hindu temples and the stairs leading up to the Batu Caves themselves. What a crock of ****. You had to pay to get in (obviously we didn't) and you get to feed the fish in their fake pond (which you can see over the taccy fake cave-like wall they built), watch some dances, go into a smaller cave and see some snakes, and have some snakes around your shoulder whilst you have your photo taken with it blah blah blah ...

... meal,jovial dance show, and picture-taking, we headed off to Conlay, where we sangto our hearts content a mixture of Filipino, Malaysian, Indonesian and Englishsongs. It was past midnight when we weredone and the hotel was still an hour away.

Despite the lateness of thenight, there were still a lot of people in downtown KL especially at JalanBukit Bintang (Star Hill St.)It was a long drive and another day was yet to unfold.

We have all headed up to the Genting Highlands in Pahang province for a few days. It is absolutely beautiful up here and our hotel is amazing. When we stand on our balcony at night we can watch the mist roll down from the mountain top and we can barely see three feet in front of us. An added bonus is the climate. Its ...

... exciting. A new attraction had sprung up at the foot of the hill. In the small shopping centre lies the interesting 'Animal Kingdom' where we got to see exotic and unusual animals like the hedgehog, giant millipedes etc. I must remember not to take up Grassland Express for subsequent visits to Malaysia. Realised their services and facilities may not be that great after all. We would stick to our regular travel provider - Konsortium or Gunung Raya.

... couple of days. The drive to Genting Islands takes about 3 hours, the last stretch is done through a cable car which takes right you up to the highlands. Quite the pretty ride it was. Genting Islands, per se, is a block of high-rise buildings nestled up in the hills and is extremely self-contained with numerous hotels, cafés, theme parks and a humongous casino. Needless to say very little work got done, all through the stay, but then ...

Genting Highlands as the name suggests are highlands some distance away from KL.Buses ply regularly to Genting from KL.These buses take you the the cable car terminus from where begins the 'longest cable car ride of Asia'.The journey? AMAZING!! The view? UNFORGETTABLE!! The experience?? OF A LIFETIME!! Genting as such boasts of nothing great but a theme park and casino.But worth seeing once.