Yesterday I spent an awesome time up in the cool mountains of genting highlands.
Genting Highlands, rightly called the ‘City of Entertainment’ is a commercial place but definitely worth a visit. The locals call it the Las Vegas of Malaysia, it’s does not really live up to the name, but yes, it’s the only place where gambling is legal. Perched 1800 m above sea level, Genting boasts of some awesome rides in their outdoor and indoor theme park. As we moved higher up the hill, it got really cold and misty. The road leading to Genting is scenic with lush rain forest on either side but mostly it was covered by the thick fog and mist which makes visiblity leval decline to almost only a few metres.
Okay the whole thing about this post is Mainly to describe my palm sweating, freaky and an adrenaline-pumping-to-the-max experience, i had when I made that decision to cage myself horizontally in mid-air and go plunging down, turning cockscrews, swinging round the bend in mid air-”HORIZONTALLY” in what they call it the FLYING COASTER
How did i get myself to do it???? HOW?? Well this is how. I have a boyfriend who loves thrills dumbly. Why i say dumbly because he would not rationalize before getting on the ride, NO MATTER HOW FREAKY IT IS. He would just enthusiastically, excitedly get on a thrill ride and PLUNGE. And it is after he has plunged then only his mind will go ” Oh God why did i Do this??” but as we know is too late by then.. So there he goes… screaming and shouting and yelling out of fear, shock, excitement, fun and everything you can mention. [taking deep breaths] i just find that part of my boyfriend adorable and weird. Well okay with that brief intro about that boyfriend of mine, so with him so implusive about going onto that Flying Coaster, he managed to influenced me up that ride too. I am usually not this type. I would watch people take the ride, analyze the danger, the risk, stand there watching a little longer to try get over the fear but usually end up walking away contented and happy with no regrets of not getting up the thrill rides.
Anyway so here am I on the metal platform, the attendent ushered us hastily in to the seats made where we will be lying on our tummies with a cage covering. Within seconds, we were lifted slowly up a spiral thingy till we were many many stories above the ground. On that slow ascend up the spiral track, i told my boyfriend, “ok i really regret doing this……..” then we stopped right at the top on a platform. Oh my God. I could see myself hanging lying down in midair. I saw all the curvy tracks below me, the people below looked so small, It was really really FREAKY. I wanted to scream and shout for them to lower me back down. But before i could utter a word………………..ARHHHHHHHHHHH i was plunging down at highspeed, face first.. and okay there’s no turning back.. I was going round and plunging and tossed every degrees till i din know whether i’m upside down or upright. Every thing was so fast that i could not scream in anyway. I felt my voice got sucked into my tummy and my face was pushed to the front to face the whole terror. And guess what, my boyfriend was screaming all the way through.. not because he was afraid.. it was just that the ride thrilled him to the max. I bet he was so caught up with that thrill he would not even know if his protective cage was off. Well half way that ride, he turned to me and said “shout something baby”.. I wanted to tell him “its CRAZY….” but i was unable to explain to him what was in my mind….so i just kept silent and spinned with all his screaming going on…..
Phew Phew.. finally it was over!!!!.. The moment I stepped on solid ground. I have to say after that first time freakiness is overcomed, I actually think it was FUN!!! I would not mind going up again for round 2!!!!
Here’s some info about the FLYING COASTER:-
‘Flying Coaster’, a hang-gliding roller coaster with Swoops, twisters and zooms round turns and drops! With the Flying Coaster, you’ll ‘fly’ with a totally unobstructed view of Genting and its beautiful scenery. Although there is no time to enjoy that, it’s moving and turning around so fast. If I’m not wrong, the ride lifts the flyer to a height of 20 meters and releases the flyer to a hang gliding flying experience over 391 meters [rough guess only] of the track length, with a maximum speed of 25 mph.[a guess from my own experience]. Four people fly together side by side, so everyone is on the front seat. I didn’t know what was coming, but it was lot of fun and thrilling experience. So JUST DO IT IF YOU HAVE TO!!

Flying horizontally ! It's Crazy !!