Century Pines Resort Cameron Highlands

... tried to charge us too much for a journey that was just too far to walk. There is an over head train in KL and by luck it had a stop right above our heads, so I checked with a local that it went to Puduraya and then marched all seven of us over to it. We got a ticket that cost us each RM1.20 rather than a taxi which want to charge us RM30 and the train took us straight to the door of the bus terminal.<br><br>The bus terminal at Puduraya is not for the ...

... else from our group appeared. It felt a little bit xmassy too as there were decorations for the first time! I had a tirimisu, sausage roll and dragon fruit drink- yummmyyy! We went out for dinner shortly after so I could only manage a mushroom soup. We went to a travelers bar afterward and I had a Pina Colada and the retired to bed! Had such a nice sleep but woke up really tired. Had an all day jungle tour ...

... Lumpur and had a five hour bus ride to Cameron Highlands, which is up in the hills and has a much cooler and wetter climate. We had a delicious curry at the cost of under 2 pounds and booked our selves on an adventure tour for the following day. <br><br>The tour started when we got into a 4x4, I was in the back with 5 others and it was the bumpiest ride ever and we were falling about laughing and screaming (somehow Gigs managed to get the front seat!) We drove into a clearing ...

... We went back into town but since it was Ramadan there was absolutely nothing to eat. Miserable, tired, and hungry we came back only to find the place where we paid someone to hold our bags for us locked. Literally 5 minutes before we had to leave the dude finally came back and gave us our bags. We hopped onto the bus relieved at the thought of finally being on our way to some place. <br><br>Once we were on the bus we settled in and got ready to ...

... in 1937 and looks like someone has just uprooted a building straight from the Cotswolds complete with a red telephone box! Shelley thought it was just on the edge of town. I believe her quote was &#8220; Its just up the road&#8221;. The road was Up but the edge of town was 4 Kms away much to Shelleys disbelief.<br><br>Our second day in the Highlands and we were off on a day tour in the Highlands. We jumped into our Landrover 110 4x4 and headed off with our group ...

... to the town's heritage. Taiping was the British administrative centre for a long time hence the very colonial look and feel of the town. It is now a garrison town with a concentration of restaurants and food markets unrivalled in South East Asia. Today we rode through the equally pretty town of Kuala Kangsar, which is the old Royal capital of Malaysia. Further on up the road we came to Ipoh, not quite as pretty as KK ...

... year award! We ignored him &amp; had a good time anyway. The Cameron Highlands exist due to the cool climate being good for tea &amp; strawberry growing. Everywhere serves Devonshire cream teas with strawberry jam &amp; scones! We did a long jungle walk to one of the tea plantations - the BOH tea plantation where the visitor is greeted by Mr Boh - a 1970's branding figure rather like ...

... We spent most of the rest of the arvo relaxing at the guesthouse and watching movies. We managed to down quite a few beer's with some crazy Germans and ended up at a bar around the back of the main bar to drink with the guy's that ran the guesthouse, they were really cool guy's and we got to see some cool singing and dancing as well!

... of hiking these pants will be completely dead instead of their current half-dead state. Before leaving the Cameron Highlands I took one more day for a bit of R&amp;R, finishing up the book I was reading and watching a couple of movies. I also said goodbye to the waiter/cook at the Indian restaurant I had been frequenting in town (though I didn't give him a framed photo like a Canadian couple from my hostel did). He made a mean banana lassi. Yum.