Overlooking the Tea Plantation

Tea and Scones at Six Thousand Feet

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November 9th 2006
Our trip into Malaysia has turned into a hunt for all things British, although this was hardly intentional. We've just spent five days in the Cameron Highlands, a mountainous area covered by jungles and waterfalls, with a micro-climate that keeps the temperature around 20 degrees. Here, we discovered was an area which felt British, looked British and tasted British. The towns here are made up of m ... read more

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During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe... ... read more