Up..Up..Up The Highlands
Sunday, June 14, 2009 |3:16:00 PM

8-10th June 09
Day 1
up to Cameron Highlands with wh and his family. We set off early in the morning at 7am. Reached Yong Peng for dim sum breakfast before we hit the highway towards Ipoh. It was a long journey. We stopped at Bidor for lunch which kept us waiting for an hour cos it was too crowded and the wait wasnt very worth it for some of us. After lunch, we set off to Cameron Highlands. Driving up the winding road was tough and it was a rocky and dizzy way up. Thanks to wh's daddy who drove us all the way up, feeling stressed and all. Despite the rough journey up, along the way the scenery was very pretty. And when we reached our apartment, everyone was tired and hungry. After unpacking and taking some photos of the nice view from our balcony, we went to "The Big Red Strawberry Farm" and pasar malam there. It was near evening then and the weather was turning cool. The wind that blows onto our faces was cold like air-con. Took lots of pictures of the pretty flowers, vegetables and strawberries at the farm just before it closed. Bought alot of food which was meant for our dinner at the pasar malam. I love the fried sweet potato balls, fried mushrooms (golden needle mushroom, abalone mushroom and the normal xiang gu) and the jagung which can be eaten raw! We didnt go anywhere at night, just stayed at the apartment and slacked. Super cold at night! We have to wear shoes/socks inside the house cos the floor was tooooo cold. We could see the moon and the stars from our balcony. Sounds romantic hor? but it's not just me and him la. there's his younger sis and bro. haha.

Day 2
Made breakfast ourselves. Using the vege we bought the night before to make salad. healthy. haha. Had sandwich too. After breakfast, we set off to the BOH Tea Centre in the morning. The view there was magnificent! We could see mountains and mountains of greenish tea plantations, plus the blue blue sky and the white cottony clouds. The pictures taken over there are like one of those landscape wallpapers we found on the net! i'm not exaggerating ok. Went up to the cafe there to have tea and some cakes. Enjoyed the scenery and breeze there. Sitting there, i was thinking how nice it would be to have a house up there. haha. Dreaming dreaming. Anyway, we also went to see how the tea we had was manufactured. A few procedures are involved - plucking the tea leaves, crashing them to get the juice out, the leaves is then dried and crystallized until it turned brown/black like the tea leaves we used to make tea and then the leaves is sorted out for further flavouring. Next, we tried to find a farm to pluck strawberries but most of the strawberries farm was closed cos there were too many people there to pluck previously since it's the holidays so there wasnt many red strawberries left for us. sad. So we went to visit the water cress farm, butterfly farm and by then it was already evening. We went back to wash up and prepared to go for our steamboat dinner.

Day 3
Last day. We checked out before 12. Went up to a temple just a distance up from our apartment. Then we headed to the Big Red Strawberry Farm again to try their strawberry sundae and waffle and fried ice-cream which we didnt get to try the first day! Sweet plus sour plus fattening whip cream. BUT...yummy! Then on the way down Cameron, we visited the Bee farm and another BOH tea plantation. At this tea plantation, we get to climb up one of the hill which was 174m to the top. The climb was worth it as from the top we felt like we were on same level or higher than the clouds. We even saw an eagle soaring in the sky. Of cos, we took some pictures there! So, that was the last stop before we headed down the Highlands. Next on our list was a waterfall. We took some wrong turns trying to find it. When I first saw it from a distance, i was overwhelmed. It was the nicest and biggest waterfall i've seen. not artificial de lo. "WaH~~~hen mei!!!" was the only thing that came out from my mouth. haha. Little incidents happened there while we were happily climbing up the slippery rocks of the waterfall. i shall not mention it here la. We found a restaurant at Bidor for dinner and finally we headed back to kluang. 5hours of driving on the highway. Poor wh. Everyone was shagged when we finally reached at 130am.

That's the end of our trip. Truly enjoyed myself. Been to a new place and tried some new food and saw beautiful sceneries and landscapes! Thanks to his mummy for planning everything. (:














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