Next Stop... Cameron Highlands!

After Ipoh, it was Cameron Highlands. The last time we were here was almost 2 decades ago, for our honeymoon! We have fond memories here. I attended 2 MYF Camps here... stayed at Ringlet at Ah Chye's Bungalow when I was in Form 3 and at SK Convent in Tanah Rata when I was in Form 5 (I think.. can't really remember which year). Other Half were at both places too but for the latter, it was at a different year. This time, the little one came along. She was so excited! Big bro is still at SUSOM.

With the Simpang Pulai road, getting to Cameron Highlands was actually a breeze; unlike those days when they had only one road up via Tapah. But the road up was littered with rubbish. That's Malaysia for us... we just cannot keep our roadsides clean.

My first impression was Cameron Highlands is over-developed and the vegetable farms with their plastic coverings are really a sore to the eyes. The municipal authorities should have some sort of environmental friendly policies.

On our way up, I noticed too that many hills have been blasted for their stones and soil. In one generation, we're already undoing nature's millions of years slow transformations. And who is going to know whether this activity will bring some form of consequences to us some day... maybe shift the weight of the tectonic plates and also the fault lines closer. The plates after all are floating on seas of magma.

Anyway, because Ipoh is so near, we got arrived early and promptly got down to doing the touristy stuffs. 8)

The first stop was the Boh Plantation at Sg Palas. Nice place... the plantation has done their part by incorporating tourist attractions into their plantation. No need for tourists to pay to enter....

From an ant's eye.... even the midget bushes can seem mighty tall. Illusion can be so easily created with pics; as in life too.

I like the plantation though. There is this lookout point which is part of the 'walk through the plantation history and production processes. There is of course a shop where you can buy their products, which I did, of course.... since I had become a tourist. Boh tea fresh from the factory! LOL!

They even had this pathway among the tea bushes for tourists to walk. One gets to be super fit going up and down the undulating terrain. Guess the workers here all are!

There was even this little one-row Tamil school right in this ladang teh. It was very well maintained. Noticed too that many of the workers seem to be Indians. But mind you, the road leading to the plantation is rather narrow... many stretches can only accommodate one vehicle. We had practically the whole stretch of road to ourselves going in.. but it wasn't that breezy going out cos cars were coming in droves.