Cameron Highlands, Malaysia Travel Blogs

Jungle bugs
Mar 31, 2006 (3 photos)

Went for a long jungle walk today, by ourselves. It turned into a bit of an ordeal with giant cenitpedes, washed out paths, lack of signs and totally inadequate maps. Cheryl came half way to a main road and then caught the bus back. Graham presed on made ...

Mad adventure
Jul 30, 2006

... 'd checked and knew that this wasn't the case and so headed on the tea tour. We went to the highest point of the highlands, took an hours jungle trek and took a tour of the tea factory. Another very interesting day but this time, thankfully, less eventful! ...

Dank sei BMW / Thanks to BMW
Jun 2, 2007 (3 photos)

... ich fuer die Ueberfahrt wieder zurueck nach Penang musste, da nur dort Fahrzeugtransporte ausfuehren lassen. Beim Abstecher in die Cameron Highlands habe ich im Father's Guesthouse in Tanah Ratah - wen wunderts - schon wieder Marco getroffen. Beide haben ...

destination home
May 1, 2009 (45 photos)

Welll what to say it seems like ages since i've updated this blog so much has changed and so much surely has stayed the same. i partied with a friend in KL at a place called zouk was good fun and most likely my last true upper class clubbing experience ...

Day 96: Tanah Rata
Dec 26, 2006 (1 photos)

Another day, another trail, but this one disappoints. Signs to Trails 10 and 11 up the peak of Gunung Jasar are few and mostly absent. After some struggles, dead ends and useless enquiries, Eva and I find the steep trail, but this ends in confusion and a ...

Arrive a Tanah Rata (Cameron Highlands)
Nov 19, 2008 (4 photos)

... Salut tout le monde, Nous allons bien, Nous sommes partie tres tot ce matin pour cameron Highlands. Nous avons premierement rate notre bateau mais pris le suivant 45 min plus tard. Nous avons eu notre guide pour nous rendre jusqu'a ...

Day 94: Penang to Tanah Rata
Dec 24, 2006 (1 photos)

I'm heading into the Cameron Highlands for Xmas and a couple of days trekking. The hills are densely forested so it's more obvious when logging, developments and roads cut into the landscape. Towards Tanah Rata the bus grinds to a halt, struggling more ...

Jungle trek and tea plantations in torrential rain
May 4, 2008 (30 photos)

... a local bus to the bus terminal which was out of town, adding another couple of hours to my journey.  I arrived in the Cameron Highlands and was glad to be in the mountains, because the weather isn't as hot and humid.  I stayed in a ...

Ein wenig Bibbern in den Cameron Highlands
Sep 18, 2006

... gehoerten zu den gluecklichen, die sich kein Badezimmer teilen mussten, aber die Herberge hatte noch andere Spaesse auf Lager. Da Cameron Highlands etwas hoeher liegt (wie der Name ja schon erahnen laesst), ist es hier auch etwas kuehler. Dies war auch in ...

Cameron Highlands
Oct 21, 2008 (34 photos)

... - you may find in some of the photos throughout our travels Lenny the Lion - if you look hard enough that is! The Cameron Highlands... pretty much all of the world's rain was deposited on us when we arrived!  So much so Ali invested ...

Raindrops keep falling on my head
May 28, 2004 (5 photos)

... for about 12 hours. Not complaining though, it makes a change from 40 degrees and no hiding from it. So here I am, Cameron Highlands, first mapped by Mr Willaim Cameron back in 1885 It's beautiful here. I did manange to get the 11;30 bus from KL ...

Cameron Highlands
Feb 24, 2006 (3 photos)

Etter en lang og treig busstur fra Georgetown annkom vi Cameron Highlands som ligger paa cirka 1500 moh. Her er klimaet kjoelig, men behagelig. Gaar med bukse og genser, sover med ullpledd og bedbugs. Vi bor nemlig paa et ekte backpackerhotell der alle ...

Boh tea
Jul 2, 2004 (4 photos)

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We never thought we would be cold in Malaysia!
Oct 5, 2004 (26 photos)

... Cameron Highlands, good to cool off after the heat of Thailand! (Fi) Warren now: The journey to the Cameron Highlands was our first bus journey in Malaysia and I wondered to myself if the driving would be as crazy as in Thailand. I didn't have to ...

Cameron Highlands
Apr 20, 2006 (24 photos)

... organised by the guesthouse. About 8 of us piled into a minibus and were brought on a tour of the sights. The Cameron Highlands was established as a hill station for the wealthy colonists who wanted to escape the heat of the lowlands so loads of really ...

Like being in England
Jan 28, 2008

After leaving Penang early in the morning we spend most of the day sat on a bus which takes is to the Cameron Highlands. Getting off the bus we instantly notice how much cooler it is and after checking in we go for a walk around the samll town of Tanah ...

Fatefull encounter
Mar 8, 1981

Just before leaving for Nepal a TA therapist suggested I visit Cameron Highlands if I were ever in penninsular Malaysia and wanted some relief from the jungle heat. CH was another of those innumerable hill stations during the Raj. My visit there ...

Roze in caj
Aug 5, 2008 (8 photos)

... metuljev, kjer pa niso gojili samo metuljev, ampak tudi hrosce, skorpijone, kace, palicnjake in vso ostalo golazen, ki lazi po Cameron Highlands. Aja, ko smo ze pri golazni. Sele tukaj sem v prospektu prebral, da imajo one opice (probiscos monkey), ki sva ...

To the hills....
Sep 12, 2006 (6 photos)

... - not to be defeated I found a pool table and ended the night and my birthday on a winning note!..' (Summary) After the Highlands I hadn't quite decided what to do when I received an email from Sarah - my travelling companion for a while in India. We ...

Always keep spare batteries!!
Jan 29, 2007

... alright!! Think ive been trying to do a bit too much and all this travelling has finally caught up with me!! Anyway, am in the Cameron highlands now,  it did me lots of good to get away from it all and chill! The journey was not quite so relaxing ...

Tea in the Lake District
Apr 27, 2005 (6 photos)

... spectacular views of rolling valleys and horticultural centres. The air was immediately fresher and cooler and the vegetation noticably greener. Cameron Highlands is home of Boh Tea. It is grown in abundance and valleys are blanketed with tea trees. We ...

Hiking the Highlands
Apr 13, 2003

The Cameron Highlands is a large elevated area where much of Malaysia's tea supply is produced, along with other minor fruits. Being the best place for us to beat the heat, you can be sure that we were eager to escape there after what was by now constant ...

Greetings from the Cameron Highlands
Feb 12, 2004 (3 photos)

... up by a taxi and dropped off at the bus station in Georgetown. We got on the coach at 9am and headed for the Cameron Highlands. After a half hour stop at lunchtime we arrived here at about 4pm (another nice long bus journey!) and set about finding ...

Eating and trekking
Nov 12, 2004 (13 photos)

... Chinese in the restaurant were eating steamboat accompanied by their favorite drink - Guinness with ice. We've seen it everywhere in Malaysia. There was even a can of the stuff in a Hindu temple as an offering to the god. The other food highlight (yes ...

Tea Plantations
Jul 15, 2008 (16 photos)

We hired a taxi for the afternoon to drive us around the local sites.  We started out at the Boh Tea Plantation.  It really surprised us that the tea plant is actually more of a tea bush and has really hardy leaves.  It sort of reminded ...

Are we nearly there yet?
Feb 10, 2007 (5 photos)

... So if this entry doesn't seem as detailed and interesting as all the others you'll have to forgive us:) Leaving Penang for the Cameron Highlands we should've known it wasnt going to be a great day when our minibuses to take us to the bus station were ...

Adventure Tour
Nov 15, 2008 (150 photos)

Went on an adventure tour which started with a 4x4 off road experience, WOW it was fab and very breathtaking at times, even the bit where there was a sheer drop as we were flying along and these guys do not have any 4x4 training either, just use their ...

Tea and Tribes
Feb 7, 2007

... hills.  Here we stopped briefly to view another part of the Boh tea empire, the Fairlie plantation, the largest in the Cameron Highlands.  The hills here were even steeper and we could see again the workers in the fields.  We continued on ...

Cameron Highlands
Jan 11, 2005 (15 photos)

Day 73 Tuesday 11/01/05 KL - Tanah Rata (Cameron Highlands) Our quick dip into Malaysia continues. We caught a taxi to the local bus station in time to get the 10.30 bus. Sadly, the bus was in the garage "for an inspection" and we had to wait for the 11 ...

Do you have any Barry's?
Mar 28, 2007 (22 photos)

The Cameron Highlands were a nice change from the hustle and bustle of city life. There was also a welcome change in the climate as we were lucky enough to have pleasant warm sunshine during the day and cool temperatures at night due to the mountain ...