Parkland Hotel Brinchang

... Guys, I clearly told you not to take photos until I have finished speaking!" He had told us no such thing. He then rambled on about the tea process; that said, I thought angry guide had an impressive amount of knowledge, until on leaving this room for the next I saw three plaques on the wall directly behind where we had been standing, displaying verbatim what he had just reeled off and which he blatantly had been reading all along! We ...

... for not seeing any tea planations like I thought we would. <br><br>After a light snack up on the mountain we hiked back down which only took an hour. Before we got into town we walked through a botanical garden which got me really excited. The plants in this garden were quite similar to the ones I saw in the Ubud Botanical Garden - a place where I took fabulous pictures but were unfortuntely stolen in Pulau Perhentian. I went crazy taking ...

... off at a hostel/hotel which is recommended in the book. Sometimes I don't like to use the book I have but it is a bit of a necessary evil and the recommendations are usually good. Saves me going to a **** place and learning through my own mistakes. Weird accommodation. Staying in a 16 bed dorm in what looks like a WW2 shelter made from corrugated iron. Like an overground bunker. Quite like staying in dorms. They're cheap, you meet lots ...

... no electronic gadgets at all. So we spent all our nights reading and playing cards or board games.<br><br>We spent most of the time trekking the easy ones of course. We did three treks - two that led to the waterfalls and another which we only went half way. A map of all the treks can be taken from the reception at Bala's Chalet.<br><br>We also took a trip to Sg Palas tea plantation which had a cafetarie on a platform with fabulous views of the plantation ...

... de theeplantages is hier een grote Indiase community. Bij enkelen bemerkten we vreemd genoeg een Iers accent. Een winkeleigenaar verhelderde een en ander: er was vroeger een kleine (kost)school die door Ierse paters werd bestierd. De Indiase theeplukkers kregen er gratis scholing voor hun kinderen aangezien de theeplanteges grotendeels eigendom waren van een Schotse familie, die hier overigens inmiddels drie generaties aanwezig is en ...

... and cheaper without the taxi fee) to book the bus through a tourist office, but where's the fun in that!? I had a prime seat right at the front of the bus next to a Roman Catholic man of Indian descent called William (!) who was talking to me about Malaysia. He got off at Ipoh and I continued for a further few hours along the road into the Cameron Highlands. The scenery was stunning - really lush, green jungle - but as we got closer to the towns and tourist areas, a ...

... We scrambled behind him, falling up and down hill, slipping and sliding everywhere. After 2 hours we reached the tea plantations. The view was amazing. We got to meet the workers and watched them cutting the tea leaves. Where it was steep they had to do it by hand, otherwise they used a machine, but it still looked hard work dragging it up hill. The workers were all from India or ...

... pastimes, walk and then have a cup of tea! Much to his delight Sarah reluctantly agrees to walk up a 1,840 metres high mountain. The first few kilometres were splendid. Shaded from the Malaysian sun by the surrounding jungle and strolling next to a river, listening to the cicadas making one hell of a racket, it seemed like the perfect way to spend a day. But the the hill started. Bill's eyes lit up at the idea of ...

... dessus de pyjama pour aller dehors" mais c'est vite oublie quand il songe aux crepes que je vais lui commander pour le dejeuner. Quant a moi, apres les MarryBrown de hier, j'opte simplement pour une salade de fruit. Cette fois-ci un minibus blanc vient ...

... quite taken by the blowpipes and after a quick demonstration I decided to buy one. We joked that if we ran out of food on the mountain we could always go hunting with it. Our supply of "food" actually consisted of a small packet of Hacks cough sweets and some fruit flavoured sweets that Phil had just bought and half a pack of Smints (fresh mint) that I found in my pocket. After the bus dropped us off we started the steep and winding climb up the tarmac track to the ...