So, I will continue my story about traveling to Genting last year , you can read the part one here. Long Story Short, My mom and I traveling to Malaysia around September 2019. After we arrived at Malaysia, we directly went to Genting, you can read my story how I go to Genting from KLIA2 in this post. So, in that post I already told you we safely arrived at the Genting Highland and went to our hotel, The First World hotel. My mom and I definitely tired after adventure that start too early (we had early flight), so we took a rest at our room before continue our trip.
Before I start, i want to tell you that Genting is Cold. Genting Highlands has a spring-like climate, with yearly temperatures no higher than 25 °C (77 °F) and rarely falling below 14 °C (57 °F) yearly. The lowest temperature of Genting Highlands is 8.4 °C (47.1 °F). Actualy For me, who has so many fat that can protect me from cold, Genting Highland si just so so, I can bear it, wearing short pant and t-shirt. But for my mom, she needs jacket too survive.
So, back to story, After took a rest , we went to Sky Avenue Mall, our hotel is connected to this mall so it’s convenient for us to go there. In this mall ther is Sky Casino, you can double your money here , there is Skytropolis – Indoor theme park, so if you with you kids, you can left them at Skytropolis and you can go to Casino. There are plenty to shop, eat and play at Sky Avenue. In Sky Avenue we also can watch Sky Symphony, Sky Symphony is a free-to-public performance showcasing an extraordinary orchestra of audio, visual and motion graphics programming. You can check here for the schedule.
I went to the casino with my mom, just to show my mom how is casino looks like. The casino is so huge, there is 2 floor and so many people play. There is no empty table, everyone play and mostly is tourist from china i think. FYI, Malaysia is muslim country, so there is only one casino is Malaysia and it is located in Genting Highland. In this casino, Malaysia Citizen is prohibited to enter and play. As I know, it is one of their way to attract tourist. I once went to Casino in MBS Singapore, when we enter the casino, we need to show our passport, and there is drink station inside that even we don’t play we can get free flow drink. So I expect the same thing in Genting Casino, but they don’t check our passport and there is also no free flow drink station. I think, they will check our passport if we buy the chips, you can enter anytime to just see how inside.
So, after strolling around the sky avenue, dinner time is coming and I am hungry. There is so many restaurant inside, after doing some research, I choose this place, Motorino Pizza. They made Freshly baked pizza in wood fire. But I am not really like the pizza, the pizza have smoked flavour which is I like, but for the whole things I prefer my childhood pizza (Pizza Hut from Indonesia). I also order the roasted chicken wing, sizzled it with lemon and dang it delicious. After finish our dinner, My Mom and I went back to our room, and prepare to sleep and rest for the better tomorrow.
The morning come, the first things is to do is of course shower and find something to eat. I book a room without breakfast, so I need to find by my self, but there is a lot of restaurant here, so don’t worry. After that we check out the hotel and ready to start our adventure again. The first place I want to visit is Chin Swee Cave Temple. If You go to Genting Highland, you must go to Chin Swee Temple, The view is extraordinary, you can get the feel standing above the clouds.
So, I will ride the cable car to go to Chin Swee Temple. This Cable car/Gondola route is Sky Avenue Station (Sky Avenue Mall) – Chin Swee Station – Awana Station (Bus Terminal). We will rode a bus from Awana Station to Kuala Lumpur but we will stop at Chin Swee Temple to enjoy the view first. We brought our luggage and went down. Luckily there is locker (paid locker) in Chin Swee station , so I can store our luggage before explore the temple. I went down quite early, at 8 am in the morning, outside it still so foggy and cold. But after we going down, the foggy is slowly disappear.
From Chinwee Station, we must going down, but they provide escalator, so no need to worry guys. Remember to keep your cable car ticket as you can use the same ticket to continue your journey either to the peak or to the Awana Station if you had stopped at the temple on your way down. I suggest you to go early because there is no one in the morning. So you can take a photo better here, no one will photobomb your photo.
Limm Goh Tong is Resort World Genting and Chin Swee temple Founder. After Build The Resort World Genting, He led a donation drive and contributed a 28-acre land for the construction of the temple. His companies, Resorts World Berhad and Genting Berhad, also made a cash donation of RM8.1 million towards the building fund. The late Tan Sri Lim was elected chairman of the society and his son, Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay, was appointed its deputy chairman. With the same tenacity that he demonstrated to build Genting Highlands Resort, the late Tan Sri Lim took on the roles of the planner, architect, designer, contractor and supervisor in the construction of the temple. The steep and rocky terrain made the construction process arduous and dangerous, and it was impossible to utilise modern machinery for fundamental work, such as piling. Manual labour was deployed and 18 years were spent to complete the construction. The Chin Swee Caves Temple was officially open on 29 March 1994.
After taking photo everywhere, we decided to going down, because we still need ride a bus to KL. So, we going up to Chin Swee station (there is escalator, so no need worry ya guys), took our luggage and going down with the cable car. After arrive at Awana Station, I bought the ticket. There is some ticket machine to buy the ticket, yes it self service, but there is some staff to help you if you need. I bough to ticket to KL Sentral, I rode Resort World Bus, The price is only 4.90 RM for around 2 hours trip. The bus is not as bis as Arwana Bus that we rode from KLIA to Awana station, but it is still so good and comfortable, and the price is so much cheaper, I paid 35 RM from KLIA2 to Awana, but only 5RM for this trip. Happy.
So, The terminal is clean, even the toilet is nice despite so many people here, they can keep the the terminal clean and comfortable to us waiting our bus. The bus also come on time in exactly platform as written on the ticket. So, after the bus come, we directly on board and go to KL. Bye Genting.
I will continue our story in Kuala lumpur. Just wait for next post .
By Lil Sis