Cameron Highlands

Well, things became interesting last week, decided to take a trip up to Cameron with friends. Usually I've only went up with my family during holidays. I wasnt very sure what we were going to do up there, but it was with fun friends who were a little more adventerous, so off we went.

The first day we reached around 4 in the evening, so with the little time we have left, we did what people would naturally do, go to Old Ye Smokehouse! It's an amazing place with beautiful flowers. With the cooling air, its really quite nice drinking tea and having their scones. You could stay there too, but i think its pretty pricey. :/ The tea and scones were on the higher end too, but for the experience it's pretty ok. :D

The second day, since we've already drank tea, we decided to skip on Sg Palas tea, and went to the factory, but it was closed.. we did have a look see, they didnt lock the door. haha and then walked around the place, taking just a short walk back to the carpark through the edge of the tea plantation. It's really serene, but it was the holidays so there was a number of people there.

We decided that we were going for a hike, so we drove up to Mt Brinchang, thinking perhaps when we reached an area where we could not drive, we would walk it then. Halfway up, we saw this Mossy Forest and thought that it was supposed to be the walk up to the peak. It was built beautifully, with no rubbish bins though, and the forest has a perfectly and nicely built walkway. Its really easy to walk, (people who i've met here ranges from kids to old aunties), and so it didnt take us long to finish walking this place. I didnt upload it, but there were some really nice scenery during the walk. 

This is the only sign we saw that signifies the peak of Mt Brinchang. The peak is unremarkable, with a communication centre and a lot of radio towers there. 

These two pictures were taking from an observation tower at the peak right outside the communication centre. The view is awesome here! We shouted our hearts out when people left. haha. The tower was small but you could really see far from the top of the tower.

The hotel we stayed in. Rosa Passadena. I think they have a few places up in cameron? Owned by the same company under different names. A lot rosa's up there. The staff were really friendly and helpful, always with a smile. The rooms were ok, quite large but it wasnt really a budget place. As with the rest of the accomodations in cameron, no aircon but you wont need it up cameron. There is a tv in our room, and spent the first night watching a movie, drinking and talking in the room.