Genting Highlands Trip

Hello Walkers!

 I am back with my Genting Highland Trip update.

This is quite a late update so I hope you walkers don't mind. *smile*

Last mid semester break, my family and I drove to Genting Highland for a short escape. We depart from Penang at about 1100. We stopped at Jalan Meranti for late lunch. We visited  Restoran Lucky Light (幸运冷气海鲜酒家）to fill our hungry-tummy. The rain was heavy. So, we waited for a while after lunch before heading up the hill. 

Driving up the hill was rather adventurous, maybe because that is my first time driving up such sloppy hill. We reached First World Hotel at about 1715. It was chill (around 23°C). Check in was fast because now they have this kiosk to speed up check in process. Check out was even faster! You just need to drop your key into the kiosk and sayonara off you go.

As you all may/ may not know, Genting Highland Theme Park (outdoor) is now under renovation, making their way to world's first 20th Century Fox Theme Park *scream*. So, if you're expecting for deadly roller-coaster, sorry. Come back in 2016. (well its 2016, I guess they are extending the date)

As for this matter, hotels rooms are now doing promotions. I managed to get room in First World Resort for RM 126 including breakfast + indoor tickets for two. Better than none. We still enjoy our relaxing moment entertaining ourselves with those indoor games. 

Breakfast at the hotel was good. At least they served bread, porridge, local delights and cereals. As I have noticed, there is a lot of people visiting from China and South East as well. The dining area was big so no worry! They even serve vegetarian food, separated at the other side of the dining area. 

We manage to visit Chin Swee Temple located at the middle of the hill. Bus transfer available at the entrance of First World Resort for every 1 hour. Bus transfer is FOC. Time was well spent at the temple. We manage to take lot of picture with the fog coming. 

We also visited Strawberry farm. We travel down the hill by Genting Skyway cable car which is around RM 12 per adult for two-way (return). Reaching the station below, either you choose to walk for around 15 minutes or you can hop onto a taxi/ kereta sapu to the Strawberry farm. Taxi is at RM10 for one-way. I suggest that you take the taxi because he will not only fetch you to the Strawberry Farm but first he will first stop by a chocolate shop. You can shop and purchase some chocolate as souvenirs. I recommend the black sesame chocolate and the green tea ones. They were good. 

At the Strawberry farm, I believe, it's not the strawberry ripping season or what, there were only a few strawberries growing. Other than strawberries, there is also a lavender farm nearby. Entrance is FOC. The lavender farm was rather small and not very stunning too. The best part is that we get to have some hi-tea at a cafe near to the strawberry farm. We tested their Fried Mushrooms and Strawberry Chicken Wings. *Thumbs up*. They were good!