Well, it’s been awhile since I threw up a travel thread and to be honest is been awhile since I have travelled much, which is a positive for the wallet tbh and I’m happy to stay at home/the pub and just watch the football/rugby/cricket but the family were itching to ‘do something!’ so I agreed, slightly reluctantly, to a trip.
Google was consulted and a few places considered but in the end a week in Genting Highlands was the winner. To be honest I know nothing much about the place, and would happily receive any book recommendations anyone has, as I am getting tired of the Grisham novels on my kindle. But I digress, we booked some likely looking apartments via Agoda or Booking.com or one of those places and come Boxing Day morning we head off.
Genting Highlands is a shortish jump from KL (around an hour or so, or 250Rm for a taxi), though we were fortunate enough to have a monthly hire of a sedan for around 2,000Rm.
Driving in Malaysia is relatively easy, well signed posted, descents roads, relatively light traffic, though that is probably COVID related, eh? Anyway, I think Brits can just use their own licence, but being an Aussie mine was not accepted so I had to get one of those international driving permits.
We get to our digs and it’s one of these apartment blocks that have the counter next door instead for downstairs. So there was a bit of messing around finding the counter, the. Finding the allocated parking spot, the lifts pallavar etc, but once in and unpacked it was nice to see a decent view, albeit mostly hidden in clouds. No AC needed up here!