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 Traveller's Tales: Things to do in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
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| M Luin |
02 January 2003 |
Stayed at Heritage Hotel Cameron Highlands - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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Try the day tour (one full day) around Cameron Highland offered by the Brinchang Hotel.
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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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| 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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| 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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| J Lommerse |
18 August 2002 |
Stayed at Strawberry Park Resort - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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The Cameron Highlands are well worth a visit. The drive from Tapah to Tanah Rata is quite an experience - 60+km of bends! The scenery en route is fantastic.
The Boh Tea Plantation is worth stopping at - although slightly off the beaten track. If you're into hiking, there are some good routes.
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| B Oke |
17 August 2002 |
Stayed at Lakehouse Cameron Highlands, The - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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After the PLUS, the road to Ringlet is a bit challenging. The road is narrow and winding and is the main route to and from the Cameron Highlands. Commercial trucks tend to travel at unsafe speeds taking corners at the absolute limit of adhesion to the road. The ubiquitous 70-90cc bikes also attempt suicide, overtaking on blind corners and cutting off the unwary car driver in an attempt to save 30 seconds on their journey. Once you have braved the desperate traffic, the landscape unfolds to some stunning scenery. The small towns of Ringlet, Tana Rata and Bringchang offer limited restaurant, shopping and entertainment facilities, but this place, after all is where you would come to get away from it all. Brilliant scenery, tea plantations and jungle walks.
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| R Johnson |
04 August 2002 |
Stayed at Smokehouse Hotel, Cameron Highlands - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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The Cameron Highlands are absolutely beautiful. We loved them & hope to return. (Bring a sweater - this may be Malaysia - but it is very cool and rainy at times.)
We drove a rental car from Kuala Lumpur, & would warn people to start earlier in the day than we did. We started about 3:30 p.m. & didn't get there until just after dark - which scared me (my husband seemed to enjoy the adventure, though) - since the roads are Very curvy for at least 2 hours to the top, and the rain could be rushing down the hillside & you don't know what you will encounter around the corner. (It's a good idea to honk before you go around some of those corners.)
In the daylight (and if you enjoy heights) there are some awesome sights! The tea plantations up there make for gorgeous scenery. The BOH Tea Plantation is the only one (I think) that gives tours of the factory & it's very interesting. I was very glad we were on our own, though. I heard from other people that they were less than happy with some of the tours, but I'm not sure why.
The 2 towns that are close enough to explore (Tanah Rata & Brinchang), are very small & only have a few shops to really enjoy. The Malay people are very warm & friendly though. We had some local food that was very good, and some that was not; but, that's really a matter of taste. I'm not crazy about Chinese steamboat, while others are. I can't take spicy Malay food, but my husband loves it. Surprisingly, there are quite a few places where you can get a Western breakfast, and the coffee is very good up there.
It was enjoyable for us to just drive around & see the countryside (something I'd been dying to do after a year in Singapore!) The golf course looked very nice, but we didn't use it. Other people seemed to be very happy with the hiking.
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| K Awyong |
02 January 2002 |
Stayed at Smokehouse Hotel, Cameron Highlands - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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Cameron Highlands is indeed a charming place with its adverse alternation of cool night mist and scotching mid-day sun. Beautiful tea plantations and vastness of mountainous paths. Perfect strawberries just compliments the red wine we brought along. If not the substandard stay/servive we had from the Smokehouse, everything would have have been picture-perfect.
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| J Kearney |
01 January 2002 |
Stayed at Heritage Hotel Cameron Highlands - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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The CH were lovely, a cool respite from humid Singapore. The flora and vegetation were different, with ferns, roses, decidious trees, pointsetias etc.
Golf is great. The municipal course was only 40 Ringit for 18 holes.
The Boh tea plantations were very interesting, and the terraces very beautiful.
There's quite a few walking trails, but the ones that our group did, didn't seem to be very well maintained.
Ye Olde Smoke House is a very twee English-style country pub with a very typical English garden and red phone box. Inside there's real fires etc. It's a bit overdone, but definitely worth a look. The Devonshire tea was nice, but pricey. We didn't eat dinner as we were told by various people who had eaten there that the food was overpriced and poor, and that they paid for the ambience.
Bearing in mind the CH has a cool evening climate, it seemed a pity that there weren't more cosy restaurants and hotels with log fires. Most seemed to be fairly souless.
BEWARE of some of the cheaper restaurants in the "downtown" area of the CH. I ate at an Indian restaurant/bar and got very bad salmonella poisoning, and was sick for two days - literally throwing up for 24 hours.
We had a car, but it would be possible to get a taxi to the trails or tea plantations.
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