Cameron Highlands

The Cameron Highlands are about 4 hours drive east and up a narrow winding road from KL, I arrived here on Sunday around 6pm. Getting off the bus we were surrounded by men sticking brochures from different hostels in our faces, it was very overwhelming! myself and two other travelers jumped into a minibus to check out one of the hostels, first one was a dive so we walked back into town and found a nice place, Twin Pines Chalet with single attic rooms for only 12RM a night. Yesterday went on a big hike up to one of the tallest peaks of the highlands Gunung Jasar (1670m), quite a tough climb, then down the other side into acres of lush green tea plantations. We walked through tea plantation for a couple of hours until we came across the processing plant and a tea house serving local tea and scones with jam and cream. We sat enjoying the view sipping tea and eating scones for about an hour waiting for the rain to stop. It didn't stop so we decided to try hitching back into town, got a lift off a nice man with a van, was lucky as it was about 5-10 km back into town in the rain. Spent last night around a campfire drinking beer with my new friends Katia from Germany and Owen from England, very nice people, both have traveled a lot so listened to their stories and got excited about my adventures to come. Went on another hike today up to the highest part of the highlands Gunung Beremban (1812m) was almost vertical climb at the end of the hike, then followed another track down to a place called Robinson falls, very pretty! Just booked minibus up to Palau Penang for 35RM will pick me up 3.30pm tomorrow afternoon.


My cute little attic bedroom, Track up to Gunung Jasar, View of Tana Rata (the main town in Cameron Highlands), Cameron Barat tea plantations, View from tea house, Dinner with friends (curry served on banana leaves).