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Travel Blogs from Tanah Rata, Malaysia
Tea and Scones
... . There was even an amazing view from the bathroom window. As we were about to start walking up the hill a car stopped and offered us a lift, we were very thankful and we were back in Tanah Rata in no time. Next stop is the Perhentian ...
Cameron Highlands
This place is just like England................. 1.The weather is cr@p 2. No Mosquitos 3. Tea is everywhere 4.Its full of Englishmen! I guess its full of the English due to the shear amount of tea which is produced here! We took a 5 hour bus ...
Pips and pals
... we got closer to the towns and tourist areas, a lot of the landscape by the road had been ruined by strawberry farms and polytunnels! At Tanah Rata I rushed to Hillview Inn to find Ste etc - I thought it may be a bit strange seeing them so far out of ...
Time to get high
... it but got woken up when we reached the twisting roads. Quite hard to sleep when your being thrown around your seat. Got to Tanah Rata and found a little bakery that sell's this really lush food for about 1Rm. Had a curry puff which put some much ...
More tea vicar?
... lights or brakes and that applies to the emergency services as well. We had decided to head up in to the Cameron highlands and headed for Tanah Rata the main town, as we left the car hire place we realised that we had no map and had to rely on a very ...
Strawberries and Indian
... to the Cameron Highlands in was freezing! We both managed to sleep for half the time, but just couldn't get warm. When we arrived in Tanah Rata 4 hours later we were so keen to get off the van and into the warmth! When that time came we were in a world ...
Cameron Highlands
Up before dawn (yawn) and straight to Komtar bus station to catch our minibus to Tanah Rata. The ride was pretty uneventful but the scenery got progressively nicer as we wound our way up through the lushly forested highland hills. When we got there, ...
Mr Boh
... landslides taking half the road into the valleys below! The Cameron Highlands are where Ye Olde Merrie Tudor England meets Malaysia!!! We have never before seen mock tudor highrise buildings! Shopsm houses, flats, offices, hotels - all mock Tudor, ...
Cameron Highlands
The first thing that strikes at this hill resort is the temperature that easily drop from 35 to 20 during the day and a chilly 12 at night. On the way, you can also notice all the nice fields done on gentle slopes: it is the kingdom of the best tea and ...
Cameron Highlands
... gefuehlt, weil ich so neugierig drauf geschaut hab. ;o) Es gab eine Art Milchbroetchen mit Kokoscremefuellung. Sehr lecker ! In Tanah Rata angekommen, haben wir den kleinen Ort erstmal erkundet. Es gibt eine Hauptstrasse, ne Menge Fressstaende und sogar ...
Cameron Highlands
... the street in the main town at Cameron Highlands. It really is a small world. So presently we are soaking up the atmosphere in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpar. We will update soon. We hear England is snowy- we hope you are all ok and wrapped up warm. ...
A little slice of England
We've arrived in the Cameron Highlands- beautiful, cool and green. It's so nice to have a relief from the constant humidity and solar assault. The town reminds me of a cross between a French Alps ski resort in the summer, and an English village. The ...
Cameron highlands
We arrived to Cameron Highland in the early afternoon after traveling 5-6 hours from Taman Negara. The mountains were covered with not only jungle but tea plantations and vegetable farms, in different shades of green. Could rent a taxi driver ...
Tea time
From KL we boarded a bus bound for Tanah Rata up in the Cameron Highlands in central Malaysia and settled in for a 3 hour trip up into the hills. We had opted for a standard-class coach, rather than the slightly more expensive VIP coach because the ...
Excursion dans les plantations de the
Hello les amis... On est dead dead dead ... apres cette journee. Deja on a du se lever tot, ce qui n'etait pas evident. Le reveil a sonne a 7h j'ai vraiment eu du mal a me sortir des limbes, sans parler de Killian qui ne s'est bouge que parce que je ...
Tanah Rata
2010-10-01: Took the bus from KL to Tanah Rata in the Cameron Highlands this morning at 10:30am and arrived at around 15pm. Found a place to stay at the Twin Pines Guesthouse for only 12RM, just a matrasse under the roof in a tiny room with shared ...
Trekking in the highlands
4 hours after setting off I arrived and checked into a guesthouse with no problems. I seem to be downscaling every time this time opting for an attic room with a mattress for £3. It was 1pm and I was getting hungry so stopped at the nearest ...
Welcome to Scotland - er Malaysia?
... don't be surprised to see an anaemic looking chicken sausage on your plate) we decided to hire a motorbike to check out the surroundings of Tanah Rata and Brinchang (the next town up the road). We didn't really have a plan, so we paid our £4 for 2 ...
Jungle Trekker!!
Yes ... ME!!! Oh what a fantastic day i have had .. i can wait to upload the pics for you to see. At 8am this morning i was picked up and we drove for a while. Then we went off road for a bit into this hillside ... off road was a good ...
Hiking To Gunung Jasar
... floor below. We took a few quick few shots, and got to see for miles across the land. Also a good view down to Than Rata where we had started from. As we started to make our way down the mountain the rain started to pick up, Only going as fast as ...
Tea, Scones and Civilised Behaviour
... and then embarked upon a mad "twisty turny" sequence which seemed to last a while but eventually we arrived in the small town of Tanah Rata. No issues with the accommodation this time but it has to be noted that the owners of the Cameronian Inn are highly ...
Cameron Highlands - Strawberry & Scones Overload
... it's like 'yippe we're all bus drivers – hows it going over there') but he definitely wasn't. Anyways he got us to Tanah Rata in one piece without trouble. Tanah Rata is the main tourist town in the Cameron Highlands – which was once a ...
Highlands
... them on a random mission down a network of trails, it started to piss down which made things pretty interesting. Got back to Tanah Rata about 1 1/2 hours later, all in all about 3 1/2 hours of walking. My second day was a tour of the cottage ...
Butterfly farm, Bee Farm
... and we made it to town in 40 minutes. Here we waited for a further 10 minutes before the bus arrived and took us back to Tanh Rata. A tiny bit peckish we order a roti and dip for a snack, perfect not too heavy and so cheap (1rm). Like every other day it ...
Boh Tea Plantation
There are three plantations in the Cameron highlands around the town of Tanh rata. We believe this was the first but we may be wrong. It as set up by a Englishman (of course)named J.A Russell in 1929. It is situated in 5000ft above sea level and covers ...
Escaping the humidity in the Cameron Highlands!
... ear muffs and hats when they get back their condos in Kuala Lumpar I have no idea. We based ourselves in the town of Tanah Rata, which despite the green rolling hills surrounding it managed to be one of the most unattractive places we’ve stayed so ...
Hitching a ride to the highlands.
Met a nice German couple in Taman Negara who gave us a lift to the Cameron Highlands. Reminded us a lot of Sri Lanka with it's tea plantation scenery. ...
Cameroon Highlands
After a supposedly 3 hour bus ride "super VIP" that was supposed to leave at 9am we arrived at Tanah Rata at 6pm. Top speed 10 kms an hour. At times, i have to say we were tempted to get out and push the bus up the hill. But we got there. We arrived on ...
Safe and sound
... and the shock point should protect Malaysia's shores from any harm. I will continue to monitor the situation in case Malaysia's tsunami position changes, but from the reports and information I have researched today am confident that no matter where I ...