Trip to Cameron Highlands

Last weekend I went to Cameron Highlands with a tour group of 30 people.  We started the trip from Seremban on Friday night at about 11:45pm.  When we arrived at Cameron Highlands, it was about 6am on Saturday.  The weather was good.  The temperature was about 20degrees C.  We got down for breakfast at Hong Kong Steamboat Restaurant.  Breakfast there wasn't that great but that was the only place open at the time.  We were grateful to be able to get coffee and hot food at that time.

After breakfast, our first stop of visit was to Rose Valley.  There were lots of roses, flowers, cactus etc. etc...

The next stop was to bee farm.

This is where the bees live.

Next stop was to "Boh" tea farm.  The sign says "no parking here.  No entry" but all buses parked here and everybody entered from here!









After the tea farm visit, we checked-in to the hotel.  I am still not very good at taking pictures of everything and blogging yet.  I didn't take a picture of the hotel that we checked-in to!  I can't remember the name of the hotel either.  I will do better next time.  Anyway, it was a cheap hotel with no lift.  I shared a room with two friends.  We had to walk all the way to the third floor, the highest floor.  The beds were not bad but I wasn't happy with the bathroom.  I expected a proper shower in the bathroom but they don't have a proper one.  There was a shower but everything inside the bathroom gets wet when we shower.

After we checked-in, the three of us went out to lunch at a restaurant a few doors from the hotel.  Lunch wasn't included in the price of the trip.  We had three dishes.

Egg fooyong.  This is the best of the three dishes.

Chicken with mushrooms.

Dragon string veges with belachan.











We were all tired after lunch.  So we went back to the hotel room for a rest before going to pasar malam.

The pasar malam in Cameron Highlands starts quite early around 4pm.  We walked for a while before we had dinner.  Dinners for Saturday and Sunday are provided.  On Saturday, we had steamboat.  It was at the same restaurant where we ate breakfast.

This is all you can eat steamboat but we can only order as much veges as we like.  The meat are fixed.  There were lots of fish balls but not much meat.

The soup is divided between clear soup and tom yam soup.










Sunday morning we woke up at about 7am.  We had breakfast at a hawker stall next to the steamboat restaurant.  It was surprisingly nice and cheap.

Here was where we had breakfast on Sunday.

I had this "kon lo lo shi fun".













My friend had "gee cheong fun".

Another friend had prawn noodles.











With three bowls of noodles plus I had a coffee and one of my friends had a bowl of red bean soup, all of these cost RM12.60.  We were so happy we didn't go back to the same place.

Then they took us to a strawberry farm.  We were told that it was a pick your own strawberry farm and that we could eat as much as we want while we pick the strawberries.  I wasn't sure whether the tour guide was pulling our legs.  When we got there, the people at the farm told us that we couldn't eat any of the strawberries while we pick our own strawberries and the price per 500g of strawberries was RM20 and that we have to pick at least 500g if we want to pick our own.  Most people were disappointed and didn't want to pick their own.  I didn't do it either.

 This is the strawberry farm.

These are the strawberry plants.












This was the last visit at Cameron Highlands.  The next stop was lunch in Ipoh.

This was where we had lunch.

One of my friends had "ban mian".

I had "char siu" and roast pork rice.












Then we visited a cave in Ipoh called 极乐洞(Ji le dong).

According to the tour guide, this is a new tourist attraction.  There are lots of statues of Buddha.












After this last visit, we were on our way home.  We had dinner in Tanjung Malim just before KL.  We were back in Seremban at about 8:30pm.  It was raining.  My father picked me up at the drop off.  I will talk about some of the fruits I bought from Cameron Highlands.....