It's a Malaysian Life... My Life: Pahang

Friday, December 24, 2010

Genting - The Cable Car Experience

We just bought the Honda City a couple of months before she'd like to try it on Genting highway. All these while, I used my Proton Wira as an excuse to not go to Genting. I wasn't sure whether the 7 years old 1.5 litre engine with automatic gearbox could even reach Genting Sempah. Once we have the Honda, Genting highway was the ultimate test drive.

Hazy day

It was in April this year that we went to Genting. We parked our car at the Cable Car station/hub and then we continued our journey with Cable Car. It was our first time! We've never been in Cable Car before. Zero experience.

It was raining that morning and I wondered how the car could climb up the steel cable with more than 30 degrees of inclination. Scary huh? But it worked beutifully... crazy...

Then I heard Langkawi has higher cable car lines than Genting's. Shall we try? Perhaps one day... we will go there.

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Monday, December 20, 2010

Cameron Highland - a place that was once nice...

We had several vacation attempts on the hills but failed mostly because of raining. Tropical downpours and shear winds are not safe for driving. Yesterday, there was an accident killing 19 tourists when their bus plunged on the way up to Cameron Highland, near Simpang Pulai. It was on today's news!

We decided to have our vacation in the middle of the year (raining season stretches from Nov to Feb). Finally, we successfully had our vacation at Cameron Highland in June 2010. We spend 3 days there.

On the way to the hills..

There are 3 ways to get there by car: from Tapah (South), Simpang Pulai (West) or Gua Musang (East). After we were advised by some friends, we took Simpang Pulai (new road actually) to get there as the road is less steep and corners compared to Tapah which requires skillful driver with thick guts. Everything was find and we checked in at a nice hotel at Tanah Rata.

The last time I went there when I was 12 years old, in my sixth grade. I could still remember wearing my red sweater, the fog, vapours came out of my mouth as I speak even though it was in the middle of the day, everything was cold then... yes, then. Today, I need to switch on my car air-cond or otherwise, I will be sweating like hell.