Very quick stop...
In the Cameron Highlands. We actually spent three nights up here in the mountains, staying at Traveler Bunker, a hostel we were recommended by a couple in the Philippines. They failed to mention that Cameron Highlands itself is a pretty sleepy, quiet town, so we don't have too much of note to mention on it. The climate is lovely, around 20 degrees and far less humid than the rest of Malaysia, but other than that nothing was jumping out at us right away here. We decided best to let someone else show us the highlights, as we couldn't figure it out ourselves, so we booked ourselves onto a day tour through the hostel.
Picked up from the hostel at an ungodly hour we set off to learn a bit about the place, and our guide made sure to explain as much about history and landscape of the area as he could. Starting with this flower picked off the side of the road, which changes colour when it touches fire, or more handily, a cigarette:
And made it all the way up to the Mossy Forest. None of us on the tour decided to go in, as a couple of years ago they decided to charge €20 extra for entry, and it's so foggy you can't see anything once you get in. Still, this photo outside would make it seem like we did, so maybe we shouldn't have mentioned that.
After taking in all the views on the plantations, and walking through a museum near-identical to the one we did in Munnar, we moved on to our last stop of the tour - a butterfly garden. One of them took a shining to Sean:
We did however have an overwhelmingly disastrous end to the day, as we decided to go for a "Steamboat" dinner, apparently a local cuisine. It was shocking, an awful hotpot of disgusting soup and a load of processed meats that you're supposed to cook in said soup. Never again.
Big love,
Dani & Stu.
In the Cameron Highlands. We actually spent three nights up here in the mountains, staying at Traveler Bunker, a hostel we were recommended by a couple in the Philippines. They failed to mention that Cameron Highlands itself is a pretty sleepy, quiet town, so we don't have too much of note to mention on it. The climate is lovely, around 20 degrees and far less humid than the rest of Malaysia, but other than that nothing was jumping out at us right away here. We decided best to let someone else show us the highlights, as we couldn't figure it out ourselves, so we booked ourselves onto a day tour through the hostel.
Picked up from the hostel at an ungodly hour we set off to learn a bit about the place, and our guide made sure to explain as much about history and landscape of the area as he could. Starting with this flower picked off the side of the road, which changes colour when it touches fire, or more handily, a cigarette:
Also glorious as a hairpiece. On we went by 4x4 to the main attraction, the tea plantations that the climate suits perfectly.
And made it all the way up to the Mossy Forest. None of us on the tour decided to go in, as a couple of years ago they decided to charge €20 extra for entry, and it's so foggy you can't see anything once you get in. Still, this photo outside would make it seem like we did, so maybe we shouldn't have mentioned that.
After taking in all the views on the plantations, and walking through a museum near-identical to the one we did in Munnar, we moved on to our last stop of the tour - a butterfly garden. One of them took a shining to Sean:
And that was that. Next day we went on one of the many hiking trails the area has, which made for an enjoyable start to the day:
We did however have an overwhelmingly disastrous end to the day, as we decided to go for a "Steamboat" dinner, apparently a local cuisine. It was shocking, an awful hotpot of disgusting soup and a load of processed meats that you're supposed to cook in said soup. Never again.
We didn't things could get much worse than that, but we were wrong, as we had one of the most genuinely terrifying moments of the trip - after making our way back to KL in order to get a flight, we ordered a Grab taxi to get to the airport from the bus station. Our driver fell asleep at the wheel on the motorway (this was at ~2p.m. in the day), thankfully Dani noticed it quite quickly and gave him a wake up call. Not the ideal way to end our time in peninsular Malaysia, but at least we made it in one piece.
The four of us were a little shook, but happy to just be boarding our flight - onwards to Borneo.
Big love,
Dani & Stu.
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