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 Traveller's Tales: Places to go and see in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
Take a tour of the top places to go in Cameron Highlands, Malaysia. You may read about must see places and activities in the area. Also, you might want to read our
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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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| G Blair |
17 November 2001 |
Stayed at Lakehouse Cameron Highlands, The - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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The tea plantations were very pretty and the tour round the factory at the Sungei Palas tea planation was interesting.
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| T Wang |
30 September 2001 |
Stayed at Heritage Hotel Cameron Highlands - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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A good place for those that prefer a quite retreat, Jungle Trial and Town is within walking distance. For those that expect shopping mall nearby, don't come here!
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| M Minihane |
24 September 2001 |
Stayed at Heritage Hotel Cameron Highlands - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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We enjoyed visiting the area, especially the tea plantations but found an acute shortage of quality restaurants.
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| C Jayawickrama |
24 September 2001 |
Stayed at Lakehouse Cameron Highlands, The - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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My husband and I flew into KL airport and hired a car from there. The best way to journey to the Highlands in my opinion.
The drive was about 4 hours, but you pass through some stunningly beautiful scenery which makes the long journey worhth every minute.
We drove as far North as you can on the Cameron Highlands map, and didn't really find anything particulary interesting to see. We stopped in at Butterfly gardens, where we saw thousands of butterflies horribly trapped in a neglected wired enclosures, fighting for thier lives. We didn't visit the tea factory as we are from Ceylon, so figured we had been there done that.
The Highlanders seemed proud of their very tourist destinations - ie cactus farm -where they have grown thousands of cacti so tourist can go see...go figure...
But there are strawberries to be picked, which are delicious, and the Old Smoke house- the other boutique restaurant to visit, oh and lot of golf to be played, if that does it for you.
The smokehouse is much older than the lakehouse, and is much pricier. Very beautiful. It really felt we were spending a summer afternoon in the heart of England. They boast an a la carte menu, but if the roast turkey, stuffing and potatoes is anything to go buy- dont bother eating there.
The rooms are lovely, cosy, authentic looking, even the cheapest has a living area, separate from the bedroom. Perfect if you are staying a couple of days, a bit claustrophobiic if you holiday plans are longer.
We were in the mood to do absolutely nothing ,so unfortunatley i cant tell you about the jungle trekking!
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| M Charles/clare |
18 September 2001 |
Stayed at Lakehouse Cameron Highlands, The - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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Cameron Highlands are very beautiful although rapidly being spoilt by out of control high rise developments. Tour of the tea plantation is a highlight. Good jungle trekking although the paths are often not well signed.
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| R Brakey |
15 September 2001 |
Stayed at Smokehouse Hotel, Cameron Highlands - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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Fun place for tourist. Visited the Butterfly gardens, Rose gardens, Strawberry farm, and a Tea Plantation. All interesting, plus scenery very pretty.
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| A Süleyman yurtas |
30 August 2001 |
Stayed at Heritage Hotel Cameron Highlands - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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On the Hotel you can book tours. This tours are very good.
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| G Feld |
14 August 2001 |
Stayed at Smokehouse Hotel, Cameron Highlands - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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Cameron Highlands is a fair illustration of these beautiful Asian spots spoiled by tasteless developers. There are still relatively scluded places but they are becoming scarce... Boh Tea Estates are worth a visit.
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| T Crespin |
12 August 2001 |
Stayed at Lakehouse Cameron Highlands, The - Cameron Highlands, Malaysia.
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The tea plantations are beautifull.
The temperature is just nice. It's a great place to have a break (from Singapore).
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