Genting Highlands, Malaysia

Getting to Genting highlands from Kuala Lumpur is really easy. Shuttle buses drive there hourly from KL central and it costs only a bit over 1 euro for a bus+skyrail. Skyrail is a gondola which takes you around 700meters up to 2000meters and where all the hotels and casinos are. We had booked the most expensive World club room from the World's largest hotel: The first world hotel. It is marketed as worlds biggest hotel with unbeliveable 6118 rooms. I don't know is that true but it was big! That I can say.





























We were excited to enter the first world plaza and see all the theme parks, casinos, big Ben, statue of liberty, eiffel tower, venice with gondolas and much else. When we finally had found our way to the lobby of our hotel the place resembled us of a busy trainstation: Announcements, big groups of people queuing for the check-ins and big lobby with lots of signs. Well backpackers won't queue and we hit straight to the Worldclub special check-in where there was not any queue whatsoever. Man behind the counter first told us to go to register, or do some kind of other check-in but when we proofed him that we really had booked the World Club room things started to go much better. We got our room keys and were told to take the lift to the most highest, 24th floor, in the 1st tower. This accommodation was a little bit of contrast to our previous accomodations, for example in Koh Lanta we had a bungalow with cockroaches, flies and outside-toilet without flush=D






























































Without going too much into details we had good time in the first world plaza. The place itself is huge and we spent the afternoon just by wandering around, checking all the rides available. We also visited the Mr. Ripley's believe it or not -museum. We went to look through some of the menus since we were planning to have a good dinner. We decided to go back to the room, put on our new cashmere suits and see what would happen. Well the effect was nice, since we were pretty much the only Westerns in the plaza and now looked like the genuine businessmen would. We were called "sir" all the time and got much more space in the crowd than before. We ended up having a Asian buffet with huge variety of different foods, but unfortunately not many of them were really good for our taste. Well we picked couple of our favourite foods and got our stomachs full.






























After dinner, we tried to make our way to the other side of the massive complex. We had bought tickets to the evening show, the Carneval. We paid a bit more from the tickets and were immediately led to the front row when arriving to the arena. The show itself was amazing with East European dancers, chinese acrobatics and the mad amazon woman with her crossbows.

After the show it was time to check out the casinos. One of the interesting thing was that in the casino there was nobody drinking alcohol. Apparently muslims here are having their kicks from gambling and other stuff. Well to be honest it looked like the casino was full of cigarette addicts. Everybody smokes with no exceptions. We wondered around for a while trying to find a texas hold'em table. Well no luck, since there was no texas in any of three casinos but we decided to check out the blackjack instead. It took a while to understand that the blackjack is called "pontoon" here. Timo played for a while and lost his money with serenity. I had a good seat and managed to made some profit. Well anyway it was getting so late that we went to sleep already. I had 4 hours time to sleep before I had to take a taxi to the airport for my flight back to Finland...