Blogs from Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia, Asia - page 5

On our penultimate evening in the Taman Negara we decided to lash out and buy in to a safari, well at least it was called a night safari. What it turned out to be was a drive around one of the local palm oil plantations in the dark, sat on the roof of a land rover with the guide casting the beam from a high powered torch into the trees. Such a venture couldn't take place in the national park since there is no vehicular access, so a plantation was the next best thing, at least it had loads of trees. It started promisingly, we almost immediately saw an owl in the beam of the spotlight, but after that it petered out. We saw a few cows, a cat - sadly not a puma type cat, ... read more

Cameron Highlands for those of you who don't know is famous for tea plantation's in Malaysia. The tea leaves are picked here and sent to Kuala Lumpur for flavouring. The first sign for Cameron Higlands Rachel was dreaming of tea and the different flavours she could have. Paul on the other hand had heard of the high quality Indian food and was dreaming of an authentic Indian dish! You would be glad to know both dreams came true, we went to Boh tea planatation and sampled vanilla tea (very nice) and passion fruit tea (tasted like air freshener). In the afternoon we went for a small trek around Mossy Forest and was shown Malaysian nature. Afterwards was a trip to the butterfly farm which had more than butterflies, large tarantula's and other creepy crawlies (Rach wasnt ... read more

The way to Cameron Highlands was stunning – lush green scenery of partially preserved jungle and palm tree plantations. When we got closer to Tanah Rata Town it suddenly got very crowded and we quickly understood that this place was also a very popular place for locals. The two of the guesthouses that we had in mind were full so we had to walk a little bit further on to finally find a room in KRS Pines Guesthouse (40RMB/13$ per room). It was still relatively close to the center so we did not mind. We left our bags and went to check what options of activities we had in this place. Of course we wanted to do some trekking but also we heard bout the amazing Mossy Forest and Prime Jungle so we wanted to check ... read more

It was a short but a much needed break from the monotonous routine of office and home. My husband Siam and I wanted to get out of the regular surrounding of friends and family and spend some lazy time together. I wanted to attend to no phone calls and no socializing for 5 days and wanted to spend the entire time with my husband alone- lazing, eating and shopping with a bit of sightseeing to refresh our minds. Malaysia was an ideal choice this time as the short travel time was an added benefit. We arrived in Kuala Lampur on 27th April morning. Though was already in an euphoric mode since 26th April evening after office hours, I was very tired by the time we got into the bus that would take us to Cameron Highlands. ... read more

W Tanah Rata trzeba miec szczescie aby trafic na pogode. Zazwyczaj pol dnia tutaj pada, drugie pol jest pogodne. Postanowilismy zaryzykowac i sprobowac wstrzelic sie dzis w ta lepsza polowe. Na szczescie sie udalo. Wraz z para przesymatycznych anglikow, para szwedow oraz trojka niemcow udalismy sie na Adventure No.1 czyli zaplanowana na 5 godzin przejazdzke Land Roverem po okolicznych atrakcjach geograficznych. Po wczorajszych przezyciach wolelismy nie ryzykowac juz spotkan z roszczeniowymi tubylcami :). Wiekszosc z rzeczy jakie dzis zobaczylismy sa z kategorii ''must see'' dla kazdego kto .odwiedzi Malezje. Sa wedlug przewodnika, z ktorego zdaniem jak najbardziej sie zgadzamy. Mozna bylo sobie ewentualnie darowac ''farme motyli''i i truskawek ale jako, ze byly w planie podrozy i tak to przy okazji tez je odwiedzilismy. Przed przyjazdem tutaj spot... read more