While in Malaysia, my mother told me that I just had to visit Genting Highlands, as did some other locals. So, my dad, brother (Cory), Matthew and I decided to go one weekend; it's a couple hours drive from my dad's place. Genting Highlands is a big shopping centre with tons of entertainment and a big casino all located on top of a mountain. You can drive all the way to the top, or you can take a cable car (Skyway) from the base of the mountain. If you decide to drive it will probably take more than an hour from the base, but the cable car takes only 11 minutes one-way and the views are well worth it (plus, you can spend all that saved energy and gas money gambling at the casino instead)!
We spent the whole afternoon at Genting Highlands. Matthew and I checked out the casino; it's not really impressive and it's quite small compared to every other casino I've been to. Although, they have an adoration with electronic games, even roulette is a digital image - maybe I'm just old and like the sound the real ball makes as it bounces around. We also played a few games of bowling and I am so terrible but it was a lot of fun. There is a stage inside the mall where performance artists put on shows. That day, we watched an American girl do a hulahoop show, with fire, too! I was shocked to learn that the artists who use to stage have to rent it and that they don't get paid by the mall, so if no one donates money to that artist, he/she didn't make any money for that performance. Maybe it's just a Malaysia thing...
We took the cable car back down and hopped in our cars to drive home. There was still quite a lot of twisting and turning roads on the way home and I can tell you that it was getting to me. If you looked in the back seat you would have seen me holding on for dear life looking like I was about to throw up at any moment. I don't do well in the back seats of cars nor on twisting roads. I made it home all right but the windows had to stay down the whole way. We didn't go back to Genting Highlands again for the rest of my trip.
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