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Published: December 17th 2010
Having arrived safe and sound after 6 hours on a bus from KL, we arrived in the cooler climate of the Cameron Highlands. The Highlands are on a Plateau made up largley of tea plantations and strawberry farms - this was apparent as the days went on as there was strawberry teddy bears, keyrings, earmuffs you name it they loved their strawberrys!
We stayed in a town called Tanah Ratare and managed to get upgraded from our hostel to stay in a brand new swanky apartment for a few nights. The Highlands were experiencing the start of the Monsoon Season so its like a rainy day in Belfast. Friday night we just took it easy and had a few beers as we booked to go into the Malaysian Rainforest jungle trekking on the Saturday. This was an experience, first of we had to get the 4 by 4 rambler truck up a already water blogged dirt track. It just wasnt happening, so before we even began our jungle trek we had to get up the track without slipping and wearing primark pumps aint goin make it easy (but guess who fell!?) It was a real experience, it wasnt until we
got to meet a local village tribe, Orang Alsi, afterwards that we found out there are wild boars, king cobras and tigers living there! A tour of the village was next, all the children said were ''Hello, I love you, and Goodbye'' all the right things to say lol. Then we were shown how to use the blow pipe which is similar to playing darts though you play with your mouth!
Having left the cooler mountains we had a stopover in an island of Penang, but after an 8 hour journey we hit the sack. The next morning we travelled North of Malaysia to an island close to the border of Thailand called Langkawi. PICS TO FOLLOW :-) XO
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oh so jls! Luvin the hippy pants mich lol wud luv 2 be out ther wif yas but im stuck in a snowy b'fast! Santa will here nxt wk tho so its all gd :-) wer bouts r ya now? Take care & il speak 2 yas soon x