Cameron Highlands trip
Time to blog about my Cameron Highlands trip with Jasmine~
It was a bright sunny day. My dad fetch us both, Jasmine and I to the Medan Gopeng bus terminal to get bus ticket to Cameron Highlands. But the ticket booth hasn't opened yet, so my dad brought us to eat Dim Sum!
The dim sum restaurant that we went is near my primary school. It was one of a few dim sum restaurant that is still opened at 10 am. Most of the famous dim sum restaurant had already closed at that time because they're so popular that all the dim sum is sold out by around 8 am. Hehe.
Well, the dim sum restaurant that we went wasn't that bad lah. Except for the fact that the waitress there tried to make Jasmine become fatter *grins* One by one, the waitress won't stop showing us all kinds of dim sum and asking us to try them. If my dad didn't return earlier (he left us alone for awhile because he went to park his car), we would have order enough food for a family of five.
So after the breakfast, my dad fetched us back to the bus terminal and we brought tickets to Cameron Highlands. YES!!! I'm so excited!
Wei Lee and ah Fung don't want to come, and Vern was busy. I was very worried because I don't have any experience following tour in Cameron. Futhermore, I didn't even book the tour ticket *blushes*
But it turns out to be more exciting that I thought.
After we reached Cameron, we alight at the bus terminal there. We were greeted by some tour guides, and I straight away goto the tour guide with a cowboy hat. First impression I guess, I seems to trust him more on touring us around. But it's a bit different than I thought...
It was an Indian who does not wear cowboy hat that bring us around Cameron. Aiyak. But it wasn't that bad either. Together with us were four women, which seems to be came from Singapore. So that's a total of six people in a small van.
Indian driver driving small van~
Our first destination is Cactus Farm. Ah, cactus again. As far as I remember, I've visited at least twice, once when I was just a kid, and another time during my librarian camp. But everytime I visit there, it was a whole new experience for me, including this time *grins*
We were charged for entrance fees for the Cactus Farm. It wasn't totally a cactus farm, but consist of two parts, one part for the flowers and fruits, and the other part for cactus. We started off with the first part, looking at the flowers and the fruits, along with other tourist (Why do I felt so weird when I said tourist...)
I don't know much about flowers, but I can appreciate the nice one, I think. Hehe. There are many kinds of flower there, including some fruits and vegetables that are not allowed to be plucked, which I obeyed anyway.
Along the way, Jasmine pointed out some flowers that their origin are from Japan. I was having some trouble remembering which is which though. You know, it was pretty hard for me to concentrate when there was something else more interesting than the plants there. Hehe!
あじさい~ (Hydrangea)
After that, we went to see the cactus. It was time up when we wanted to visit the cactus, so we were rushing though the cactus farm. Nothing much I can remember about the cactus, except the cactus cause pain. Do not try to touch them. And we met a couple from Singapore! Talk about how big is the world...
Next, Strawberry farm.
Strawberry Farm
We had two option here, either go-in-and-pluck-you-own-strawberry or stand-outside-and-buy-the-prepacked-strawbery. However our tour guide manage to help us choose both. So we ended up going in to the farm, pluck some strawberry, escorted out by the workers (we didn't pay for pluck-yourself option) and we brought 2 package of prepacked strawberry.
Strawberry
Our next destination is Rose Garden. Instead of looking and admiring the roses, I chose to smell every single roses that my nose can reach (which explains why at the end of the visit, everything around me smelt like roses)
Even though it was years ago that I last came to Cameron, the flowers still smells the same... But some of the roses there smell like man-made-rose-flavoured perfume. Yuck!
Other than roses (it wasn't really a rose farm, the real one would need more than just a van to reach there, a 4WD. Who cares, I was already enjoying myself there) there are many others flower. There were planted on the "other hill". We only found out about that after we reached to the top of the first hill. Since we don't have much time, we just enjoy the view on the top of the hill.
The thing I enjoy most is the cool breeze that kept brushing at my face...
Next next next next...Next! The Tea Plantation.
Boh tea plantation
The scene was nice. Hills over hills of tea plantation. If I'm not wrong, the tea bushes are around 80 years old, approching the end of their life span. When they've reached the end of their life span, tea bushes will be replanted. Everything will start all over again. Such ironic, yet sad.
Our final destination for the trip is Bee farm. There was one more trip to Butterfly Farm, but we need to catch the last bus that is going back to Ipoh, or else we need to spend a night in Cameron, which isn't a bad thing too.
Bee hive
It was a small bee farm. We finished walking around in 10 minutes time and brought 2 bottle of honey. We spent the rest of the time eating ice cream and shop around in a market near the Bee farm. We've met a young Malay girl who is able to speak Malay, English, Chinese and Japanese! She's darn good. Hehe.
Well, it's a long and fun day. We caught the last bus back to Ipoh and slept all the way through. It was great to be with Jasmine all along the trip. Hehe!
It was a bright sunny day. My dad fetch us both, Jasmine and I to the Medan Gopeng bus terminal to get bus ticket to Cameron Highlands. But the ticket booth hasn't opened yet, so my dad brought us to eat Dim Sum!
The dim sum restaurant that we went is near my primary school. It was one of a few dim sum restaurant that is still opened at 10 am. Most of the famous dim sum restaurant had already closed at that time because they're so popular that all the dim sum is sold out by around 8 am. Hehe.
Well, the dim sum restaurant that we went wasn't that bad lah. Except for the fact that the waitress there tried to make Jasmine become fatter *grins* One by one, the waitress won't stop showing us all kinds of dim sum and asking us to try them. If my dad didn't return earlier (he left us alone for awhile because he went to park his car), we would have order enough food for a family of five.
So after the breakfast, my dad fetched us back to the bus terminal and we brought tickets to Cameron Highlands. YES!!! I'm so excited!
Wei Lee and ah Fung don't want to come, and Vern was busy. I was very worried because I don't have any experience following tour in Cameron. Futhermore, I didn't even book the tour ticket *blushes*
But it turns out to be more exciting that I thought.
After we reached Cameron, we alight at the bus terminal there. We were greeted by some tour guides, and I straight away goto the tour guide with a cowboy hat. First impression I guess, I seems to trust him more on touring us around. But it's a bit different than I thought...
It was an Indian who does not wear cowboy hat that bring us around Cameron. Aiyak. But it wasn't that bad either. Together with us were four women, which seems to be came from Singapore. So that's a total of six people in a small van.
Indian driver driving small van~
Our first destination is Cactus Farm. Ah, cactus again. As far as I remember, I've visited at least twice, once when I was just a kid, and another time during my librarian camp. But everytime I visit there, it was a whole new experience for me, including this time *grins*
We were charged for entrance fees for the Cactus Farm. It wasn't totally a cactus farm, but consist of two parts, one part for the flowers and fruits, and the other part for cactus. We started off with the first part, looking at the flowers and the fruits, along with other tourist (Why do I felt so weird when I said tourist...)
I don't know much about flowers, but I can appreciate the nice one, I think. Hehe. There are many kinds of flower there, including some fruits and vegetables that are not allowed to be plucked, which I obeyed anyway.
Along the way, Jasmine pointed out some flowers that their origin are from Japan. I was having some trouble remembering which is which though. You know, it was pretty hard for me to concentrate when there was something else more interesting than the plants there. Hehe!
あじさい~ (Hydrangea)
After that, we went to see the cactus. It was time up when we wanted to visit the cactus, so we were rushing though the cactus farm. Nothing much I can remember about the cactus, except the cactus cause pain. Do not try to touch them. And we met a couple from Singapore! Talk about how big is the world...
Next, Strawberry farm.
Strawberry Farm
We had two option here, either go-in-and-pluck-you-own-strawberry or stand-outside-and-buy-the-prepacked-strawbery. However our tour guide manage to help us choose both. So we ended up going in to the farm, pluck some strawberry, escorted out by the workers (we didn't pay for pluck-yourself option) and we brought 2 package of prepacked strawberry.
Strawberry
Our next destination is Rose Garden. Instead of looking and admiring the roses, I chose to smell every single roses that my nose can reach (which explains why at the end of the visit, everything around me smelt like roses)
Even though it was years ago that I last came to Cameron, the flowers still smells the same... But some of the roses there smell like man-made-rose-flavoured perfume. Yuck!
Other than roses (it wasn't really a rose farm, the real one would need more than just a van to reach there, a 4WD. Who cares, I was already enjoying myself there) there are many others flower. There were planted on the "other hill". We only found out about that after we reached to the top of the first hill. Since we don't have much time, we just enjoy the view on the top of the hill.
The thing I enjoy most is the cool breeze that kept brushing at my face...
Next next next next...Next! The Tea Plantation.
Boh tea plantation
Did you know Chinese, Japanese and Western tea are processed from the same tea leaf? The only difference is the way they process it.
The scene was nice. Hills over hills of tea plantation. If I'm not wrong, the tea bushes are around 80 years old, approching the end of their life span. When they've reached the end of their life span, tea bushes will be replanted. Everything will start all over again. Such ironic, yet sad.
Our final destination for the trip is Bee farm. There was one more trip to Butterfly Farm, but we need to catch the last bus that is going back to Ipoh, or else we need to spend a night in Cameron, which isn't a bad thing too.
Bee hive
It was a small bee farm. We finished walking around in 10 minutes time and brought 2 bottle of honey. We spent the rest of the time eating ice cream and shop around in a market near the Bee farm. We've met a young Malay girl who is able to speak Malay, English, Chinese and Japanese! She's darn good. Hehe.
Well, it's a long and fun day. We caught the last bus back to Ipoh and slept all the way through. It was great to be with Jasmine all along the trip. Hehe!
posted by Secret Agent at 11:30 AM
5 Comments:
Nice trip man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wah... you wrote much more than me, and about more in detail...
arg...... i missed a wonderful trip!!! That was too bad i was preparing my trip to USA!!!! Bad timing!!! Wuwuwuwu......
Thanks!
Cameron bcom more high standard after reading ur story!!!well doNE!!!
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