Ever wonder how to explore outside of Kuala Lumpur for a day trip perhaps to the outskirts? From KL Sentral, you can conveniently ride the bus to Genting Highlands.
In KL Sentral, locate the gate to the Genting bus counter. It is not as obvious and we couldn't seem to be able to find any sign. We finally found it after asking around. See the gate where the ladies are walking out from, at the left side of the image?
Go to the bus station (underground) and look for 'Go Genting' booth, there you could buy round trip or one-way ticket including gondola to Genting Highlands. Mind I say one-way as you can buy return ticket from your destination, but the time you want may not be guaranteed available. For that, they suggest you to buy a round-trip fare. The bus stops half way from Genting Highlands, from there, you take the gondola ride directly up to Genting Highlands.
This is the bus in red color. The seats are fairly standard and comfortable enough. It is air-conditioned as well.
The bus took us to the Awana Skyway Gondola cable car station in Genting Highland. It wasn't a peak season so the line was minimal. There were two options of the cable car, the standard and the glass floor. We purchased the standard gondola along with the bus ticket previously. We didn't see much value and experience added from the much expensive glass floor option (RM 50). Also, the frequency of these glass floor cable car is lower as well.
The cable car makes a quick transit at the first station, Chin Swee Temple. We went straight up to the second (final) station at SkyAvenue.
Inside Genting Highland housed a small scale amusement park, Skytropolis with a number of rides for kids of all ages. There are all day passes for about RM 60 or single ride ticket for about RM 10 - RM 15. Plan out your rides and see which one suit you better.
There are also an outdoor amusement park but it was closed for renovation during the time we visited. Down to base station, we waited at our ticket designated time for our bus back to KL Sentral station. Here is the kiosk where you could buy the bus ticket if you chose one-way bus ticket. Somehow, it appears to be cheaper. But do take into consideration of the ticket availability.
Looking for more adventures? Why not hike up hundred of steps to the Batu Caves. From KL Sentral, we took a LRT to Batu Caves stop.
Within walking distance outside the station, you will reach Batu Caves. The temple was renovated in 2018 and got a rainbow makeover with colorful painting on its staircase.
Expect many monkeys. This kid is unfazed of the monkey and actually feeding them.
Please note, Hindu considers the temple a sacred place and require woman to have proper wear, which cover legs and shoulders. No short pant and short skirt. However, they do rent out a piece of cloth as pario for RM 5, and refund $3 back when the cloth is returned.
We made it to the top and inside the cave! So proud of the boys. No complaints up nor down.
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