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Travel Blogs from Tanah Rata, Malaysia
Tea and Trekking
... ) we discovered the printed price was actually 17RM. That's the price for being a tourist I suppose! Anyway, we miraculously arrived in Tanah Rata in one piece and were surprised to find that our hostel (where we were paying GBP7 a night for a double ...
The Highlands
... for the first of many, many bus trips in the next month. After a 4 hour, 200 km journey, we arrived in the town of Tanah Rata. The elevation was a cool break from the heat of KL (and the rest of Malaysia for that matter). It's a nice town, but there ...
High point of Malaysia... at least in metres
will add some English rap sometime, maybe at the beach where we're heading next, but for now, just some piccies to ...
High Tea Break
Got the tourist bus again, said our goodbyes to the girls, chatted to a South African couple and were offered sweets by a French father whos children didn't like them as they were too spicy (they had many issues with Malaysian food!) Cameron highlands ...
Tea plantations, mountains and... its cold!
... really cool, tea plants are nothing like how I imagined! The tea factory and plantation was built in the 1920's when Britain still ruled Malaysia and it felt very british. We had lunch of tea and scones with jam which was great. The first decent cup of ...
Fore
Brian and I had a fun couple of days up in the much cooler climates of the Cameron Highlands. We went on a half day tour of the sights our first day, getting some great pictures of butterflies, beetles and flowers. It was too cloudy to see anything ...
More Tea?
... really. Then again she did say "well you're obviously Australians...??). The tea plantation was fantastic. There are postcards in Tanah Rata with hills of bushes that look like the set of Teletubbies and you kind of think that it can't really look ...
British Colonial Charm
... like they have been here for 50 years. Then some of the buildings definitely have a British feel to them. We arrived in Tanah Rata and began the hunt for accomodation. Eventually we settled for our smallest room yet.....in the attic, with barely enough ...
Cameron highlands tea plantations
... in the arctic conditions of the ridiculously cold air conditioning that cannot be changed, I was up early for my bus to Tanah Rata - the Cameron Highlands. A perfect breakfast - condensed milk on toast. How have I managed the past 5 weeks without ...
The Cameron Highlands
... had to stop paying attention if I was to preserve my own sanity. So after our complementary rollercoaster ride, we arrived at a much cooler Tanah Rata. I was immediately blown away by a few men who came up to us and offered to take us around the town ...
Ahhh Malaysia- the joys, challenges and roti!
... ;fondness (nay, obsession) for felines. Well, this was my heaven. These were not the wary, skittish strays of Malacca or Tanah Rata. They were well-fed and relaxed. It was rare to choose a table at a beach restaurant without there being a ...
Cameron Highlands
hello We set off for the Cameron Highlands in a hire car. It felt a bit like cheating but Steve didn't feel too comfortable about the 6 hour bus journey. After a very winding journey over the hills through lots of rainforest and some little villages. We ...
Tours and Hitch-Hiking
... so we decided it be easier (as there as 3 of us) to hitch-hike. This was probably the easiest travelling I have done in Malaysia, although I don't recommend doing it on your own, we got in a car which would take us to the main road after just 5mins of ...
Cameron Highlands
This place is the most beutiful place ever. Were staying at a place called Fathers Guest house recomended by the inlaws and it a great place with a really good feal about it and very good food. You can do all sorts of walks here there are local maps ...
Tea and Scones
... another strawberry tart we headed to the viewpoint to look out over the entire plantation. It was beautiful. We had to take a taxi back to Tanah Rata because we had walked 10km and it was now 5pm so we would not have got back before dark. We got the taxi ...
The hills are alive with......tea
... but with no bathroom. (We aren't that rich!!) We had to share with a couple of other rooms. We have discovered that in Malaysia, hotels are not very good value. Or just plain not good at all in some cases! Still, the Hillview was incredibly clean and ...
Cameron Highlands
Spent three days in Cameron Highlands doing some jungle trekking, checked out the local tea plantations and hiked through the Mossy Forest. It was a much needed break from the heat! the temperatures during the day did not exceed 25C and the nights ...
Butterflies, Rainforests, Strawberries, and Tea
... Konrad had stopped at during his previous visit. Unfortunately, the garden was much farther than we'd realized - about 10 kilometers from Tanah Rata - so it took us much longer to get there than we'd anticipated. The butterfly garden was nice: many ...
Travelling to Cameron Highlands
I woke up early today to send a box of gifts and things home. This was easier than expected, but expensive and I will think twice about sending things home until the end of my trip. After that I waited around for my bus which, on my ticket, said it ...
Leaving KL and arrival in the Cameron Highlands
... ;A Malaysian girl across the aisle from me was repeatedly being sick into a plastic bag – lovely. Once we arrived in Tanah Rata, the driver from Father's Guesthouse – the hostel I had pre-booked – was waiting nearby in his minibus ...
The Cameron Highlands
... projects that completely destroyed the natural beauty of the area. Unfortunately this is one down side to my time in Malaysia. Although it is a beautiful place no thought goes in to sustainable planning or making any development fit in with the ...
Cameron Highlands
Hiking through the montane forests here, we have been struck by the interconnectivity of life. A flower grows from the moss that forms where a climbing vine makes contact with a tree. Everything is fair game here. Everything grows out ...
A small jungle trek
I got up at a fairly decent time today. The six of us went down into the town for breakfast, then back up to the hostel again. Julia, Koo and Scott left shortly afterwards to continue their travels elsewhere. Me, Nolan and Amy then set off on our ...
Mountain Serenity in the Cameron Highlands
The Cameron Highlands in the middle of Malaysia are cool(temperature), clean, and full of tea. Excellent! The town of Tana Rata is small, it has all the things you need, hotels, restaurants, a post office, supermarkets etc. But not a bar in sight! We ...
Kuala Lumpur to Tanah Rata
Hier comme je vous l'avais dit, j'avais organise un voyage a Tanah Rata dans les Camerons Highlands en taxi. Il vint comme promis a 11h, Killian et moi fin prets pour le voyage. Helas c'etait pour me dire au'il etait navre parce qu'apres s'etre renesigne, ...
May I Have Another Scone, Please?
... . The Cameron Highlands are a collection of three or so towns and inbetween resort hotels. I stayed in the main town - Tanah Rata - surrounded by tea plantations, strawberry farms, and honey farms, an area trying hard to cling to the ...
Larrry Leech, Sid Snake in the Cameron Highlands
... took about 6 hours arriving at around 19:30. We had booked a dorm room for our stay in an old converted monastery looking over Tanah Rata. This was the first time on our trip we had stayed in a dorm and we were looking forward to mixing with other ...
Heading to the hills
... ; The down-side is that it can feel a bit chilly in the evening so we dig out the cardie and jumper. The drive up to Tanah Rata from Ipoh was quite spectacular as we wound up the mountain road cut into the jungle. We were fortunate to see quite a ...