After a 4-hour ride into the mountains we got to Cameron Highlands. We passed a lot of really pretty farms and tea plantations along the way. Our chalet was quiet, away from the town, and had a lot of exotic-looking flowers. And some chickens! We found this great Indian restaurant where we ended up eating all our meals at. I ate a LOT of Indian food in Malaysia.
Cameron Highlands was a refreshing change to the tough weather of Malaysia; it was cool and dry. As a hill resort, people usually come to see tea plantations, strawberry farms, cactus and flower gardens, and butterfly farms. It actually sounds really lame but I liked it a lot.
We caught a bus in the morning to a some small road and walked a few miles to get to a tea plantation. You would think that a tea plantation is this little place with some tea plants but it’s not. The hills all around us were covered with tea plants before we got anywhere near the visitor’s center. The factory, where they still use equipment from the 30s, smelled delicious; it smelled more like fruit than tea. Being there really made me want to buy some tea, especially with deliciously tempting flavors like Lychee Rose and Lime & Ginger.
The other thing that Cameron Highlands is popular for are its strawberry products. They sell strawberry stuff everywhere and it’s all straight from the farm: strawberry ice cream, strawberries with cream, jam with crackers, dried honeyed strawberries, strawberry tarts, pudding, etc. I even had strawberry roti from the Indian restaurant that we ate at for all our meals. Really good stuff if you love strawberries like me, so it was a good day.
We took a long hike back into town in our flip flops and stopped by a few other places, like cactus and flower gardens. When we realized it was too far to walk, we got picked up by a taxi for 1 ringgit each, which was less than what the bus would have cost. So that was almost weirdly cheap but it got us into town where we had some nice strawberry and banana lassi to cool off our day.
That night we caught a bus back to Kuala Lumpur and stayed there for the night.
May 28, 2007 at 3:26 pm
ooo that looks yummy. aww there are less and less pictures.