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Travel Blogs from Tanah Rata, Malaysia
Cameron Highlands
... was semi-comfortable, Fletch opted to sleep on the floor of the van. We arrived after dark at Daniel's Lodge in a small town called Tanah Rata. We took up all the beds they had left in the dorm up in the attic. It was chilly. ...
Montañas verdes
Hemos llegado en un autobús que no tenia nada que ver con el que nos subio a Munan en India. Hemos encontrado un lugar muy agradable y limpio. Además tiene sabanas y edredón. Que maravilla será eso de dormir tapadito. Tras sudorosas semanas por ...
Cool in Cameron Highlands!
Well, this turned into an eventful little trip! We booked a bus from KL to Tanah Rata in the heart of the Cameron Highlands and set off OK. It soon became apparent that the bus had a bit of a problem as we left KL and it was really noisy and chugging up ...
RAIN forest
Tanah Rata, Malaysia. Cameron Highlands. Part of the 130 million year old tropical rainforest. It's quite beautiful. I have to say, even though it's in the rain forest, I didn't think it would rain quite so much. Especially since The dry season was ...
Cameron Highlands
... at vita hvat tad var; tad var okkurt vid einum bólki sum einaferd um árid ferdast kring Malaysia og vitjar tempul. Aftaná gingu vit runt í Tanah Rata og leitadu eftir eini restaurant til kvøldid. Sídani nidan aftur til okkara guesthouse. Nú hava ...
Hike a rumba
So since we last blogged not a lot has happened we have been to the hostel bar a couple of times and have met a variety of people from a variety of different countries, eaten more delicious food and watched many films from the dvd collection as well as ...
Cameron Highlands
... thought that England must be a wonderful place. Then he started telling us about how the wildlife was being affected by logging in Malaysia, and about the Discovery channel and then about Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppellin. A very surreal ...
Day 100: Taman Negara
... sulky staff. Often I have to seek out the menu or bill myself, such is the lack of interest from the waiters. Malaysia celebrates 2007, the 50th anniversary of independence, with a big tourism promotion, but outside the pricey hotels and lodges there are ...
Do you have any Barry's?
... night due to the mountain setting. We also stayed in a nice quiet hostel on a country hill the outskirts of the town of Tanah Rata which was great after the horrible kip in Kuala Lumpur. The area around here in famous for it's tea plantations and we ...
Crazy, crazy jungle trekking
So today I woke up thinking I'd have a nice few hours of trekking around the hills in Cameron Highlands. Holy crap. It was crazy. :p Started out around 9am and didn't end till about 5pm. We went up and down and uuuup and doown some crazy ...
Day 98: Taman Negara
I cross the river, Sangai Tebeling, just after 8am and tramp into the forest. Paths are a little slippy after last night's rain. The roots of kapok and rambutan provide steps. Unlike the Cameron Highlands, the paths are clear and well-signposted, though ...
Day 99: Taman Negara
I pack a sleeping bag and head out to Bumbung Kumbang, a hide 12km into the jungle for the night. The trail is often blocked by fallen trees; one I note must only have fallen the previous night. I spook a deer. It spooks me too as I'm contemplating my ...
Cameron Highlands
... our experiences in Hanoi were so different (and that is where we were last before coming to Malaysia.) We stayed at Fathers Guesthouse in Tanah Rata for five nights altogether. Once we had decided to include the Cameron Highlands as part of our ...
Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands
... taking our lives in our hands on a treacherous road that snaked its way up to the Jungle Highlands, we arrived safely in Tana Rata. At the hostel, we presented our passports to check in and were greeted by the local Malaysian fella: "Ah, Irish...Conas ...
Refreshingly cool highlands and Petronas heights
... two hours were through winding mountain roads and our bus would beep its horn on approach to every corner. Still, we made it safely into Tanah Rata and found our way to our hostel, Gerard's Place. Once in and sorted we went for a walk around the town and ...
A little piece of England in Malaysia ....
I've taken a few days off from worshipping the sun and come up to the Cameron highlands. This is a plateau of countryside in the middle of the jungle, which has a climate and scenery more like England than you would expect in the middle of a tropical ...
Cameron Highlands
Despite being well into the tropics it's cold here up in the Cameron Highlands. Our first night we stayed at a boot camp style hostel with tempermental showers, we checked out the next day only to stay in a guest house with what seemed like a herd of ...
Rolling Tea Fields (Cameron Highlands)
... thrown in the middle of the medina in Morocco (like Stacy) could be too much for a first time visit from a westerner. Malaysia's main religion is Islam and although you hear the prayers over the loud speakers, days can go by without hearing it ...
Hi all just a quickie well we managed to ...
... we managed to tear ourselves away from KL after 9 days of living in luxury and now we are staying in a quiet little town called Tanah Rata which is at least 1000m above sea level. The journey here was very interesting. We had to get the train at 1950 ...
Good Intentions
The plan was to get going early in the morning to Penang, but the rain and the fact that I woke up too late meant that I was to watch DVDs with a couple of people in my hostel and try again tomorrow. I did toy with the idea of going trekking for a ...
Hangovers and lazy days
... and decided to not do anything, just relax, watch some movies, and hang out. The climate is very different to the rest of Malaysia. It's refreshingly cool, without being cold, and when the sun comes out, its very warm. Life is taken at a slow pace ...
Cameron Highlands
It was so great to be out of the heat for a bit. And that is clearly the greatesst attraction of the Highlands. Nice spring temperature, perfect. The other attraction is hiking. Keen sportsmen as we are, we therefore signed up straight away for an ...
Day 95: Tanah Rata
... of spice tea with a scone (a curious hangover from the British occupation), at the Ummph! Café. At this point we're 14km from Tanah Rata with possible storm clouds brewing. As we head back down the hill we're passed by many drivers happy to honk and ...
big bugs in the Cameron Highlands
Hi Guys, So this morning we left Cameron Highlands after 3 nights there. The highlands are at a higher altitude 1500m+ so it is nice and cool compared to KL and the jungle. We came across the hugest bugs ever, called Cicada or something, cehck out ...
KL to Cameron Highlands
We read many great reports from people staying at Father's Guest House in Tanah Rata, in the heart of the Cameron Highlands, and headed straight there. The place was cool, clean, cheap and very friendly! Also, they had a huge TV lounge where they screened ...
Malaysia, a beautiful country
... after going up to the bridge to get back to the hostel, get my bag, and to the bus station. I was heading to Tanah Rata in the Cameron Highlands were most of their tea production is as well as some mountainous area for views and walks. I ...
Hiking to an expensive tea shop
... , we booked tickets for a minivan that picked us up at the door and would bring us straight to the main town in the Cameron Highlands, Tanah Rata. It was a bit more expensive than the regular bus, but it would avoid us having to make two trips to the bus ...
Visiting a tea plantation and a cretinous dinner
We had a rather late start today and I didn't get up till nearly 10am. Our plans were to visit the a tea plantation. We all went down into the town and had breakfast, then people began to disappear. Nolan and Amy had already had breakfast, so said they ...
Highlands Tea and Cake
AFter a four hour bus journey, 2 of these on hairpin bends, we've arrived in Cameron Highlands - an old hill station where the tea plantations are and loads of jungle trails. It is a lot cooler, thank goodness, but pouring with rain at the moment! Just ...