Palace of The Golden Horses @ Mines Resort
Going to a place never been before? We are all behind time. Just around Kuala Lumpur alone, I have been to Genting, Petaling Jaya and Shah Alam but never to the Mines Resort - an old mine converted to a resort. I missed the company trip some years back on a 3-day trip (including travel time by bus) and I reckoned I was too lazy to go through the trouble of packing and probably just enough time for a day of golf and back. This trip was prearranged way back and just having been back from Krabi and returning to read the news of the Orchard Road flood and then the 7-hour jam ordeal at the Causeway through JB almost had me nauseating. Can you imagine getting stuck there and then your food/water runs out and when you need to pee? Besides I hated long bus trip because I have taken 18 hour overnight bus trips before, rest a night then another gruelling 6 hour trip by van and another 2 hours by ferry. That was when I was poor. Though still poor, "let the poor say I am rich" - so I...