Day 10: Pusing to Genting Highlands

I had a heavy breakfast (as I have been every morning on the trip it seems) of delicious noodles in an anchovies broth.  Little stray puppy was hanging around, and I tried giving him some leftovers.

Family friend's cute dog!

I was sad to leave Gooh Poh's place, it was so nice to spend some time and get to know her.  She's already 93, but in really good shape.  Hopefully I can come back to visit again within the next couple years.

Uncle Allen took us to his brother's home.  He has a cute, fluffy dog who I played with pretty much the entire time.

Then, our drive to Genting Highlands began!  Halfway there, we stopped at a small town called Kalumpang, which is even smaller than Pusing.  Had some delicious bbq pork buns.

The first thing we did after arriving at GH was take the cable car, Genting Skyway, from the carpark to the hotel area.  It is one of the largest and longest in distance in Asia.  The ride was scenic, being able to see the entire mountain full of healthy green trees, and a burst of color every so often from flowers.  It was foggy, so unfortunately as we were approaching the top of the hill, we could not see the buildings too well.

View of amusement park and Hotel First World

We are staying at Hotel First World, the record holding hotel with the most number of rooms.  The conditon and quality of the place is not great though.  Seems like the priority was to build lots of rooms.  A couple casinos connect the major hotels, so I of course stopped by and signed up for a membership card, although it took half an hour.  We got free meal vouchers woohoo.  There is also a large asmusement park outside, and Asia's largest indoor amusement park just a few floors down.  The outdoor park reminds me of Wild Waves back at home, except this may be smaller.

Cute stuff-animals disguised as other animals in the midway section

It is interesting to compare the table games here vs those in the US. They have simple ones that are just like children's games, like rolling a ball and betting on the numbered hole it will fall into.  Very easy to understand.  Another is called Casino War, where you just bet that your single card is larger than the dealer's single card.  Another practice here that I am not familiar with is betting on other player's hand.  You can just place your bet on top of theirs, and trust whatever they do.  They win, you win.  Or no winning at all.




Tomorrow we stay another night here.  Maybe we will sing some karaoke or I will finally get a massage...