Cameron Highlands

This week I have had one of my wishes come true: goodbye heat and humidity, hello Cameron Highlands! The Cameron Highlands are so named due to being around 2500 meters above sea level. The entire area is breathtakingly beautiful; think rolling green hills, crisp clear blue skies and lush tropical forests. I think it could definitely give New Zealand a run for it money in the beauty stakes. At times it felt a little alpine…

We arrived to a torrential down pour of rain but luckily our guesthouse for the next week had arranged to pick us up from the bus station and drop us off. We stayed at the fantastically friendly Fathers guesthouse and we were lucky enough to be sharing the house with some great people. We spent our nights talking into the early hours and generally relaxing it up.

Relaxing and writing the blog!

On our first day we decided to join one of the tours that would take us around a tea plantation and on a trek through the Mossy Forest. The plantation was both fascinating and serene.  The trees appeared to go on forever. Our knowledgeable guide told us everything you would want to know about tea and the tea drinking and cake eating afterwards was also enjoyable!

Following this we went on a tour of the mossy forest, which we were told anybody could do even your 80 year old grandmother. I’m not sure what they are feeding the grandmothers around here but although the walk wasn’t long it was surely steep and very, very slippy! Much to Matt’s amusement, I kind of sort of fell into a bog. Bogs aside, the forest was beautiful and it was a great way to pass an afternoon.

Forest: beautiful but not designed for tall people!

On the way back to the hotel we stopped off at a local butterfly farm, where we saw a range of weird and wonderful creatures. 

For me personally, the Cameron Highlands have been my favourite place we have been to in Malaysia. But all good things must come to an end and tomorrow we are back on the road to Penang.