inside Casino (Run by Malaysian Muslims), but you can see lot of head scarves and Muslim caps inside casinos and you know that the law is just customary. We wanted to try our luck but as I mentioned earlier that my luck sucks, the bags were not allowed inside the casino and we both had backpack with us, and the lockers were full (and also too small for our backpacks) we decided against it. We started wandering around and found out that it’s also a shopper’s paradise with lots of shops and restaurants and café inside the hotel it self. The most amazing thing we found while roaming for hours is that Genting is nothing but cluster of big hotels with casinos and shopping, food and amusement parks, it’s an entertainment city! All the hotels are inter connected and there are shop after shops and you just forget from where you entered and where are you going, there is lot to see and lot to do. But first and foremost we went shopping for some winter clothes. We bought wintery jackets from Bum equipment!
(Inside Genting hotels) Because of Chinese New Year the place was full of people. We reached a central area kind of a space which was really huge and had lots of rides in it with all the world famous monuments in one place from statue of liberty to Eiffel tower. It was fun. There were lion dance and dragon dance shows there, which we enjoyed very much. After spending 5-6 hours browsing through stores and fake monuments, we decided to go outside and see the scenery around. We got out of the area via exit from First World Hotel, which itself if very big and colourful building still mostly covered in clouds, it looked amazing. We came out and walked toward the edge of the mountain to see the valley below (about 5 mins walk!) and what we saw was beyond belief the whole valley was covered with white cotton clouds, there was no bottom in sight. It was like a white foamy sea with pockets of green islands. It was amazingly beautiful. We just stood there for half an hour and enjoyed the view, mystified
by the amazing nature we decided to take some photos, and we decided that we need a photo of both of us, there were 2 really beautiful girls in head scarves standing near by. So we asked them to take our pictures and they did. I thought Malaysia is really beautiful. By 4 pm we were arguing, we were unable to decide whether to go back to KL or stay in Genting. Tried some hotels but they were either full or very costly due to the holidays. So decided that we will go back to KL. Had lunch at one of the Kebab places. This hotel hunting had gave us one advantage was not all wasted, we found place to leave our baggage in safe custody without paying a single buck, at the lobby of First World Hotel, we have registered our selves as customers who wants a room for one night and left our luggage to their make shift open luggage room guarded by their bellboys. We roam around for couple of hours and came back at 6:30 in the evening to go back to the base bus stop using cable car.
(First World Hotel in Clouds..)
(at the edge of the Genting Mountain..) This time we got cable car and reached base bus stop admiring valley below us with beautiful lush jungles and amazing sun set. We took 7:30 bus and reached KL around 9:15 pm. Now next big question, where will we stay the night??
The bus has dropped us near Chinatown; I told Hiren lets stay in some cheap Chinese lodge to save some money. We started walking towards Chinatown; we were both tired and stressed from traveling and walking in Genting for hours. But still dragging ourselves on the streets of KL to find some good cheap hotel. Saw one really nice hotel went inside, ask about a room with 2 single bed, got a nasty smile from the man behind the counter, told us with foxy smile “We are full just 1 small room with double bed is left, is it alright?” We were tired and wanted hot bath and wanted to sleep. So we said “ok show us the room”.
The room was alright but decided it’s too expensive for a double bad room it was 99 ringgets(Malaysian currency) per night (S$ 50, or INR 1350), said “thank you” and walked out. Finally found a real cheap hotel room with 2 single bed in just 55 ringgets (S$ 27, INR 700), it was not very good hotel but it was perfect for our budget. After an hour we went out for food hunting.
Next: Pulao Penang
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