Blogs from Tanah Rata, Pahang, Malaysia, Asia - page 7

Cameron Highlands Resort I am staying here for another few days. The room deco is fantastic, the air is refreshing, the services are excellent and the traffic is beyond words. The room is cost USD250.00 per night. Rather expensive for local tourists but for foreigners, it maybe reasonable considering the forex and quality of services by the resort.... read more

Han - Hello! Hope everyone's well, just trying to remember what comes next, O.K, Outdoorsy stuff. Now, you may not want to read this if you're alone or it's late & stormy outside, it's scary shit. It all started when we arrived in the sleepy town of Tanah Rata, a place famed for its fresh local strawberries and, well, just strawberries actually. Our friends chose to stay in 1940s WW2 bunkers with original beds. We booked into a cute little room with attached shower, comfy bed & 1950's decor. The shower was only usable if you lay on the floor (nice mental picture for you there) and had it as cold as possible. It is cold in the Cameron Highlands. Beer was quite expensive & evenings were spent watching movies & playing pool. Whilst we were ... read more

The resident guide Bob had us up around 6ish to do the early morning hike. On came the boots, the long carggys, the big old socks all which have been collecting dust in the bottom of me bag and off into the hills. From the word go I could tell this was gonna be fun, as the mist was still hanging around the hills and due was coating the bushes and trees. Bob being a local nature guide indulged us all in the flora native and unique to this region of the highlands, with comedy and gesture. The first climb was to a sumit of around 1650m by which time the mist had cleared and you could see for miles around the towns scattered about and the mountains covered with thick vegetation. A quick break preceded ... read more

The bus journey. Yes I know I go on about them, but when you don’t have the pleasure, and believe me it is a real pleasure of having your own transport there’s a good chance you’ll be traveling by bus, coach or minibus or a combination of all three in order to reach your chosen destination. After a while you too would learn to loath buses. Apart from being driven by someone who clearly shouldn’t be given a driving license soley as a potential danger to others health, the constant delays and unscheduled stops (I kid you not. We stopped this one time at what was presumably the drivers home so he could collect in the washing hung out on the line) really add to the experience of never getting where you want to go fast ... read more

Hello again - this time we are doing two blogs at once - one for the Cameron Highlands, and the second for the Perhentian Islands. We havn't updated for a while and this way we can keep the pictures seperate. Sorry for the delay, we actually wrote these blogs a few days ago but have had difficulties getting the pictures online. Anyway here they are... So after we left Penang we were hoping to get a bus across the country to Kuala Besut where we could then catch the boat to the Perhentian Islands. We arrived at the bus station about 1pm and the bus didnt leave until 9pm so we got the old book out and decided we would stop off in the Cameron Highlands first. This turned out to be a good choice ... read more