After 5 hours in a mini van we made it to our new destination. Getting outside of the mini van Cj and I are freezing. Standing in shorts an a T-shirt i am shivering from the cold dampness outside. Our new destination is called Cameron Highlands and it's in the name as to why we are so cold. This place is very high up in the malay mountains.
Our guest house (Father's guesthouse) is an enchanting hostel. The architecture here looks a mixture of British and Swiss. Some of the buildings look like cottage chalets and our hostel looks like a english village house, even inside the hostel has sofas, dining tables and rugs.
The main reason to visit the Cameron Highlands is to see the tea plantations which was actually started up and is still owned by a scotsman (its now in the 3rd generation) 5 million cups of tea is grown, hand picked and fermented at the highlands.
The next day we set off at 8:45am on a tour to see the plantation, tea making factory, butterfly farm and the mossy forest. We drove up higher in a jeep and saw workers hand picking the tea leaves. At the top of the highlands is the mossy forest. Many herbal plants are grown here. We trekked for about an hour around the forest and went to the top of the view point which looks over the highlands.
On the way down we stopped at the tea factory to see the process after the tea leaves had been picked. We then of course bought a cup of tea and a cake in the cafe.
Once the tour had finished we asked our driver to drop us off half way so we could see the temple and strawberry farms. The strawberry farms is another thing the Brits put here whilst we governed the land. Our walk back to our town felt very strange. With the english architecture, quaint cottages, highland country side surroundings, a posh looking golf course, strawberry farms and the cold raining weather we forgot we were in Malaysia and thought we were taking a stroll at home.
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