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Rafflesia Hunting in the Cameron Highlands
... that can shoot over 150 metres in distance. We then stopped for a short lunch, (and, thank God for a beer) and then headed to the BOH Tea Refinery and Plantation for a tour. This is mammoth in size with the hills covered with tea leaf bushes for as far as the eye can see. This was followed by a stop at a Butterfly farm which also housed all kinds of insects and reptiles and finally a stop at a Strawberry plantation. It was here that our ...
Tea, Rain and Concrete Strawberries
... one night as we would not waste our time here.
We bought a tour ticket to the tea plantations for the next morning and an onward bus ticket to Kuala Lumpur leaving the following afternoon before heading out ourselves, in the rain, on a walk to some local waterfalls.
This was a beautiful walk, actually possibly more so for the rain as if bought out the rich smells from the jungle around us more. The waterfalls were impressive because of ...
Day 60
... creams. Er, haven't any of you ladies heard 'Beautiful' by Christina Aguilera? Stop trying to be lighter! And if anyone over in Blighty is struggling to find work, then get yourselves over here - job adverts galore in the mall.
The weather did it's usual 3-hour chuckdown, only today's was seriously violent. I've never heard thunder or seen lightning like it. There was a moment when I was running along the car park to my hotel when I ...
Cream teas, lemon vodka, action Jen, plantations
MALAYSIA/Cameron Highlands
The minibus transfer dropped us at our hotel. Result. No walking or connecting buses. It was a good start. The highlands were actually quite high. I thought they would be rolling hills but they were actual real live mountains. Who'd have thought eh. Our hostel also served cream teas. Another result. The highlands are full of strawberry farms, tea plantations, cream teas. And most importantly cheap hawkers stalls. Although mainly selling south Indian ...
Kellie Castle,Perak Tong & The City That Tin Built
... again in 1920 and by 1926 the castle had taken on its final shape. In the same year smith went to Europe to visit his wife and to take delivery of the lift shaft he had commisioned for the castle, on this journey he developed pneumonia and after a short illness he died at the age of 56, work stopped again and was never to be started again. The castle was sold unfinished, unfurnished and un lived in. The castle was left to ruins and had been taken over by the jungle until it ...


