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 Cameron Highlands, Malaysia travel tales
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| F Henderson |
24 December 2002 |
Stayed at Heritage Hotel Cameron Highlands - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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The Cameron Highlands is well worth a visit if you enjoy hill walking, the scenery is breathtaking especially after you have walked up the trails. The tea plantations are worth a visit but not all of them do tours, so check first.
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| T Li ling |
24 December 2002 |
Stayed at Heritage Hotel Cameron Highlands - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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Almost anything basic that you need can be bought from Tanah Rata. There is no bicycle rental there and I have tried to find one. There is one in Brinchang but you can also rent from your hotel (if your hotel has). Northern Indian food quite okay at the main road shops.
There is a temporary local dry market during our stay there. Sells sweaters at bargain prices XL to XXXL but I only wear S or M. Sells many household things and food.
Raju's Strawberry Farm has delicious strawberry ice stick, jam and the sweet fruit. Boh Tea plantation is quite interesting for the first time. Not many visitors and only foreign visitors. Robinson's waterfall is polluted due to construction nearby. Not worth going to Robinson's waterfall. Overall, there is much development in Cameron Highlands and many cars. The natives have all found work in factories nearby and they now live in houses. Cameron is a very different place from the last time I went nearly 10 years ago.
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| A Bartoszek |
08 December 2002 |
Stayed at Smokehouse Hotel, Cameron Highlands - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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Stayed only for 24 hours so did not have much time to experience the place. Did go to the Rose garden and a Tea plantation both of which were very interesting.
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| Y Lee loh |
06 December 2002 |
Stayed at Strawberry Park Resort - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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This is my fouth trip to the Highlands. I took a coach bus and package tour in the first one but drove up from S'pore subsequently.
I used to stay around Brinchan because the weather is cool and convenient for food.
It's quite common to join a short half day local tour around for the rose gardens, tea house visit etc. when you first get there. But there are also trekking routes and golf courses.
I had a lovely lunch at Smoke House which is exclusive, peaceful and cosy English style. I think it's 'must go' for tourists to the Highlands.
Having 'steamboat' at Brinchan is also another must do for tourists but not because of the food quality. It's the atmosphere and surrounding that are so nice for a hot and warm meal. But there are lots of places offering steamboat and I still have no idea which is the best.
I think Cameron is a good place for people who want somewhere simple, natural and out of reach. The tea plantations and its small and 'run down' towns are some of its special features.
But do not expect there peaceful during holidays or long weekends cos it's getting more and more popular among Malaysians these years and you'd sure get a traffic jam up to the hill during mid day.
Better plan and scheudle it carefully.
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| C Ng |
20 November 2002 |
Stayed at Heritage Hotel Cameron Highlands - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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Cameron Highland is a fantastic place. Cooling and quite cold at night. During this monsoon period, if you drive up, drive slowly. Perfect scenic. Place visited are Kea Farm, Strawberry farms, tea plantation, Rose garden, butterfly garden, Cactus garden. Generally a one night stay and 2 full-day stay should be sufficient to see all. When buying Strawberry, try got to Kea Farm, don't buy from first shop, walk in a bit further and start bargaining. Smaller strawberry and those planted in soil is always better and shouldn't need to go with sugar offered.
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| B Berrux |
08 November 2002 |
Stayed at Heritage Hotel Cameron Highlands - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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The landscape in Cameron Highlands is beautiful although it is marred by lots of unsightly buildings. We liked the tea plantations very much. Most other visits were a little boring, especially the rose valley and the strawberry farm. There seems to be a lot of possibilities for jungle trekking. Unfortunately, it rained a lot as we were there.
For organising half day tours, CS Travel is a good company but they close very early in the evening (5:45). Avoid booking a tour directly from the bus station: the guide who was supposed to pick us up at the hotel never came and, although it was easy getting a refund, we lost one afternoon.
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| O Clancy |
29 October 2002 |
Stayed at Equatorial Cameron Highlands - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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The Cameron Highlands is as green as the rest of the tropics and you hardly raise a sweat! The equatorial resort is not the olde English hill station cliche you might expect, but if you want that you'd be better off at Ye olde smokehouse- we enjoyed our Devonshire tea and wander around there.
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| D Greig |
13 October 2002 |
Stayed at Lakehouse Cameron Highlands, The - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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We travelled to the area by car, visiting tea plantations, strawberry farms, rose gardens and the butterfly farm. We also did two of the walks (both with waterfalls) and drove to the highest peak (unfortunately it was clouded in). We enjoyed the beauty of the Camerons very much. We used the Lonely planet guide to recommend restaurants and found it to be very accurate.. the Indian food in particular was wonderful.
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| E Mcanuff |
15 September 2002 |
Stayed at Strawberry Park Resort - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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Cameron Highlands were beautiful. We took a bus from KL which was fine. Journey took about 4 hours and was very cheap. We hired a taxi for half a day to take us round the sights which was a great way to see everything. Beware of taxis after 9.00pm when fares seem to almost double.
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| M Cash |
28 August 2002 |
Stayed at Strawberry Park Resort - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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We used our own driver and guide whilst away and visited all the attractions. The tea plantations were particularly fascinating and everything was good value for money.
We also had a need to visit the local Klinic for an emergency wasp sting to the face and found the doctor very kind and efficient.
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