On Thursday we took a bus up into the Genting Highlands. It was very cool, and the air was very crisp up there, compared to the polluted humidity of KL. There would have been a gorgeous view of KL, but the clouds were in the way (I'm told they usually are). Genting consists of several huge hotels, a casino, shopping centre, and an indoor and outdoor theme park of sorts. The whole place is very Westernised, considering we only saw 2 other white people there. We spent most of our time around the (overpriced) indoor theme park area. The whole place was a bit too 'crazy' for our liking, but it reminded me a bit of the arcade area that used to be up the top of the Queen St Myer Centre, but 100x bigger. We took a cable car down the mountainside, which was very scenic.Friday we went to Sunway Lagoon, which, like Genting, consists of several hotels, a shopping centre, and a theme park. The Shopping Centre had an 'Egyptian' theme for the most part, complete with giant sphinx and pyramid, and heiroglyphs. We also found a Moroccan themed part, and there could be more that we missed. In the centre was a big ice skating rink! The most spectacular part was the water park. The place is huge and set in a valley, right in the middle of KL, complete with dozens of waterslides, rollercoaster, 'natural' (?) lagoon, wave pool, and a big suspension bridge from one side to the other. It was amazing. We would have loved to have time to go and swim but we had to catch a train back to Singapore!
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