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Sg. Palas Plantation God is fair. He gave Malaysia a beautiful mountain range, Titiwangsa Mountain Range with a 130 million year old forest carpeted on the spine of the Peninsular Malaysia. Here I am going to share is about the people involved and the crops on this fertile highlands, the Cameron Highlands, North East of Pahang. Founded 1885 by a British surveyor, William Cameron. Cameron Highlands is from 1200m-1800m high. Temperature from 15C-25C. Ringlet, Tanah Rata, Brinchang, Tringkap, Kuala Terla, Kampong Raja and Bertam Valley make up the rest of Cameron Highlands.
J.A. Russels, the one person who has the love of business, started at a very young age, making successful in every business he undertakes. He has rubber estates, coal factories and the biggest business venture of all is the "BOH Tea Plantation (1929), that stretches from Habu (Tapah) to Fairlie (Tanah Rata) and Sungai Palas (Brinchang) that covers about 600 hectares of the Cameron Highlands. Cheeding is in Selangor state. Low land tea plantation. All packaging is done in Cheeding. Today, BOH Tea Plantation is Malaysia number one tea producer.
Cameron Highlands has all the ingredients for all kinds of planting, good rich porous soil, lots of rain and long
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Assorted tea leaves before fermentation hours of sunshine.
I love to go to these entire three cafeterias in Habu, Fairlie and The Sungai Palas, a cup of Cameronian tea with milk and a piece of carrot cake is really "cool". I can spend the whole day there, looking at the carpeted tea plantations covering all the highlands, with cool freshness of air are simply marvelous, do I sound like a Brit?Pardon me. Join me please.
Chinese business men begin their vegetable farming, strawberries, roses and cactus. The Indians thought the same too. They are equally successful. To name a few, they are the Rose Centre, Rose Valley, Raju's Strawberry Park, Kok Lim's Strawberry Park, Cactus Valley and the Bee Farms. You can also see watercress farm, mint farm, tomatoes, dragon's whiskers, citronella, cabbage farm, water apples, flower plantations, particularly, the chrysanthemums.
In the deep forest, the Orang Asal (formerly known as Orang Asli) means the Original People (The Aborigines), The Semais, The Temiars, Negritos, Proto Malays and the Jakuns, also played an important role in Cameron Highlands. They are the foremost people in this Highlands. They practices shifting cultivations, they believe in animalistic beliefs, they hunt with blowpipes coated with tree sap
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Fairlie Plantation from the Ipoh tree that makes the animal drowsy when shot at. They collect honey (Pure Tualang Honey), they pluck Petais beans,
Parkia speciosa (
bitter bean,
twisted cluster bean, or
stink bean) and they also sell wild orchids and wild durians. They weaved rattan baskets, animal traps and also sometimes they work for the contractors or at the vegetable farms and the flower gardens. These are the means of survival in modern times. They can’t grow fruit trees anymore, the scoundrels of the forest ate them all. They looked like us and very much smaller in size.
I will try to make time to go there again, taking more pictures to add in on this blog. I hope these informations is good enough for your future visit to Cameron Highlands. Happy reading.
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