Cameron Highlands, Malaysia Travel Blogs

Cameron Highlands - Ye Olde Smokehouse
Jun 28, 2004 (19 photos)

... like you are in a whole new world, not to mention the experience. This past weekend we went to Cameron Highlands. One of many Highlands in Malaysia. Beautiful mountains with fresh cool and sometimes even COLD air. We don't have cool or cold air in ...

Tea in the Jungle
Mar 25, 2005 (6 photos)

Hi everyone, Arrived in the Cameron Highlands, feeling slightly car sick due to the winding roads that did not feel big enough to fit a car on let alone a coach. The hostel was really nice - a bit like halls at uni with loads of common areas and DVD ...

Tea, native villages and puzzles
Feb 7, 2007

... of the morning's activities or to have the afternoon off, and he first drove us to the largest tea plantation in the Cameron Highlands, the Fairlie plantation, where we spent a short while taking even more pictures of tea bushes and tea pickers. From ...

Ooopsy!
Jan 25, 2007 (26 photos)

... Con Air 3 and Titanic 2???, and everynight there was a camp fire with guitars and a sing song. Usually Hotel California. The Cameron Highlands is like the lakes but with jungle and not as many lakes haha and the main attraction are the trecks. We only ...

clinically dead
Aug 2, 2006

... breakfast she told us that she is having some work done on the guest house by the "orang asli", the indigenous people of Malaysia, who until recently were hunters and gatherers (and still are to some extent). They are so few and powerless that I've never ...

The search for Jim Thompson...
Nov 16, 2008 (23 photos)

... There were rumours he was even eaten by tigers! We bore this in mind while trekking through the jungle... Cameron highlands is the biggest hill station in Malaysia and is pretty much in the centre of the peninsula. It is between 1300-2100m above sea level ...

BOH - The Best of the (Cameron) Highlands
Jul 26, 2007

... could all get some sleep for the night. The next day we found a cleaner and more comfortable (with water!) guesthouse. The Cameron Highlands (about 2,220 ft.) is an area southeast of Penang but north of Kuala Lumpur, higher in elevation, where they grow ...

Wet jungle fun
Dec 19, 2005 (7 photos)

... trip with the school to Wales, its basic but all we need. We kitted ourselves out with the latest jungle survial wear (some combats, a "cameron highlands" logo t-shirt and a rain coat) and set off on a jungle trek. We "off roaded" in a 4X4 to the end of ...

Cameron Highlands
Apr 17, 2007 (5 photos)

This is just a quick entry to show you all a few photos of the Cameron Highlands. Although we were only here for 1 night it was really beautiful. Our room had huge windows with views of the jungle outside. Not a great deal to do here besides go to Tea ...

Little England
May 27, 2006 (1 photos)

We're up in the Cameron Highlands, in the centre on Peninsular Malayisa. It's refreshingly cool here compared to the stifling heat of, well, everywhere else since China. Trekking is the main thing to do here and on our first day we went for what we ...

Cool in Cameron Highlands!
Jul 10, 2009 (6 photos)

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 ...

Tea-Time in Malayisa
Feb 18, 2006 (3 photos)

After a fun filled trip to Kuala Lumpur, we arrived in the beautiful Cameron Highlands. We all felt KL was somewhere we had to see, but must say we weren't sad to be leaving. The only thing there that left a lasting impression was Anna's rather exquisite ...

cameron highlands
Feb 9, 2009

... gibts endlich urlaub!!?!??! nach gestrigem erfolgreichen thaipusamerlebnis machten wir uns heute per 4h busfahrt auf den weg in die cameron highlands. wir bleiben eine nacht im cameron inn in der kleinstadt tanah rata. hier ist es deutlich kuehler als in ...

Muzzle that mullah
Aug 2, 2006

We decided to avoid the hotels and stayed at Siti's (not his or her real name) small guest house in Taman Sedia, a Malay kampong. Siti told us that another Canadian who once stayed there, Captain Flowers or some such name, had converted to Islam. The ...

flying visit Day 60
Dec 9, 2006 (5 photos)

... ......the cafe bit.....where we watched the rain....we got in mini vans and went on off up to the peak of the cameron highlands......firstly we stopped by a bit of rainforest......which was cool had a bit of a mooch through there......he told us ...

Cameron Highlands
Dec 5, 2005

... highlands it was a bit like spring in Britain & the chance to wear socks & shoes was welcomed. The main thing we did in the highlands was a walk through the jungle with Michelle & Ralph. It was pretty hard going in some parts & in the end we caught a lift ...

RAIN forest
Apr 18, 2006

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 ...

Twithcing down the highway, looking for adventure.
Jul 14, 2008 (2 photos)

Off early from Georgetown, good thing we asked what time it was the day before we left, we were still on Thailand time for the last three days.  We caught the local bus to the main station, Saigonibon.   We commuted with the students and workers ...

The highlands
Oct 17, 2009 (5 photos)

Just arrived high up in the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia. ange now better and booked on a jungle treck tomorrow to see the #rd largest flower in the world!!. It is a 2 hour treck through the jungle but hoping to stop along the wat to swim at a waterfall. ...

Crazy, crazy jungle trekking
Sep 29, 2007 (13 photos)

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 95: Tanah Rata
Dec 25, 2006 (3 photos)

Most backpackers head to the Highlands for the trails - 12 or so paths through the forest. I opt for Trail 7, pegged as one of the more strenuous. Before I reach it, I bump into Eva from Germany, struggling to find Trail 9A and end up joining her. The ...

Tea time in the Cameron Highlands
May 22, 2007 (10 photos)

Anita and John next board a stinky bus bound for the lush and cool altitudes of the Cameron Highlands.  Established as a tea producing region, the milder temperatures must have been very inviting to the pastie white Europeans who moved to Malaysia.& ...

Cameron Highlands
Feb 9, 2007 (15 photos)

Approximately one hundred miles into the mountains from KL is the Cameron Highlands (CH) area of Malaysia.  CH is famed for its' tea plantations, other agriculture and fantastic jungle trekking for visitors.  An added bonus is that it's also ...

Run to the hills!
Aug 14, 2007 (27 photos)

Up very early and sneaked into the fancy hotel next door for a buffet breakfast and then got our "VIP" bus to the Cameron Highlands.  Unfortunately half way thought the bus broke down and we had to change to a normal bus without the added 'breaking ...

A little piece of England in Malaysia ....
May 25, 2004

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 ...

A cool change
Apr 4, 2007 (3 photos)

... ;I couldn't help but feel that in some bizarre way that he was actually trying to impress us! The Cameron highlands are heaps cooler than the rest of Malaysia so it has been a nice brief break from the Tropical climate. Due to the cooler climate there ...

Cameron Highlands
Dec 4, 2006 (13 photos)

... they're fresher too. We also spent a lovely day at the Boh tea plantation and a honey bee farm. There's something very civilised about the Cameron Highlands, every afternoon after our invigorating hill walks we had a Devonshire cream tea - splendid!

Tanah Rata and the Cameron Highlands
Feb 15, 2009 (144 photos)

... reading in the hostel gardens and sorted our flight to Vietnam. 17/02/2009 We decided to get up early for the 8.45 Cameron Highlands countryside tour around Brinchang town and Kea Farm area. We were picked up at our hostel and headed to the first ...

Where's the clotted cream at??
Nov 24, 2009 (16 photos)

Got to the Cameron Highlands' main town, Tanah Rata, after a picturesque drive through the Malaysian mountain roads. Long Alpine-style valleys covered with jungle rather than pine trees. The towns up in the hills are pretty small, with Tanah Rata being the ...

Cameroon Highlands
May 1, 2005

And so began the adventures to the Cameron highlands, the name a seeming mix of the exotic tropics and rustic Scotland. As the bus chugged around the winding road hugging the side of the green jungle, I sweated, I had managed to get the bus at exactly the ...