tea plantations and jungles

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So lets start with yesterday!! I dragged my dad on a full day tour of the cameron highlands! there is heaven on earth...its called the tea plantations in malaysia!! they were beautiful!! after drinking copious amounts and then seeing how it was made we went to a butterfly farm...where i was subjected to the honour of holding a scorpian!! after realising i wasn't dead we continued to the jungle!!! for three hours we endured the hot and humid weather to reach a distant flower which the local aborigines had searched for! it was beautiful. everyone was so friendly and i played with the local village children while dad played with the blow darts!! after the fourth attempt he hit the target!! 😊

today we had an eventful mission from cameron highlands to penang. the sat nav decided to break and dad continually drove the wrong way leaving me to navigate wth a map which had barely any road names!! it wa horrendous!! finally made it and had our well deserved beer, but after the luxury and perfection of the highlands, i have been dragged back down to reality. the streets are littered, the people are less wiling to make eye contact and the general atmosphere is sombre. it could be because everyone ahs left for chinese new year...china town was like ghost town!!!

tomorrow we will start afresh...wake up, see some buddhist temples and thank our lucky stars that somehwere down the road there is a hot shower waiting for us. i will really miss dad's company. it's ncie to share these experience...both good and bad with someone.

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