Malaysia Day 2 ~ Cameron Highlands

Cameron Highlands is Malaysia's highest hill station nestled high in the mountains of Pahang. It is particularly famous for its cool weather, tea and strawberry plantation.  Travel time from KL is about 3 hour (on light traffic) but the green forest scenery on the way is a pleasant break from the bustle of the KL city.

We book this tour via Klook >>>> Cameron Highlands

If we have time, we would opted for at least a night stay in the area, however as we were short of time we had to make do with a day tour.  

The tour included hotel pick-up and drop-off, lunch, entrance fees to tea plantation, butterfly farm, bee farm and the strawberry farm.  

We were supposed to do a quick pass by the roadside waterfalls, but it started raining quite hard on the way.

Pick up was prompt at 7am.  We were ushered to a tour bus meant for 40+, surprisingly though we were just 9 pax in our tour group.   

We can actually go party in the bus and we still have space for a buffet spread (LOL).

Our first stop is a bee farm and a strawberry farm.

Sadly though there were very few strawberries left (as we came after the school holiday and there were plenty of recent pickers).

So we just had to content ourselves to pre-picked strawberries sold by locals.  We grabbed some strawberries and got seats at a local coffee shop and ordered strawberry ice cream, strawberry scones and coffee (LOL)!

The strawberry farm owner told us to go try the white strawberry variants, the whiter he says the sweeter.  I prefer the red though, as I want my strawberries a bit sour.

These strawberry flavored scones were delicious!  Perfect paired with brewed coffee over the cool Cameron Highlands weather.  We could spend hours here, unfortunately our tour runs tight on schedule.

The bee farm is located beside the strawberry farm.  The owner himself gave us the tour.

Next stop is a butterfly farm.  The place is small, but picture worthy. 

Got myself a free rider here >>> 

From here we made our way to Sultan Ahmad Shah Golf Club restaurant for lunch.  Lunch was just okay, with vanilla ice cream topped with strawberry bits to finish.

The view, however, is wonderful!

From here, we were taken to the Cameron Valley Tea Plantation.  We roamed the tea plantation a bit, before settling down at the plantation restaurant for coffee and scones.

Quite a long way down, but a more difficult climb up!

Tea and scones (again).

We got scones again, since we enjoyed the strawberry scones, we had at the strawberry farm.  However, the ones here, were quite dry and nothing near the ones we had earlier.

We tried the tea, as we wanted to taste the variants before buying them at the plantation shop. 

They have all sorts of flavors.  But I decided to get the basic green tea. 

This ends our Cameron Highlands adventure.

We got back to KL at around 7pm and went back to Jalan Alor for dinner.

Please check out also our Day 1 (Part 1 and Part 2) by clicking the links below:

>>> Kuala Lumpur Day 1 (Part 1)

>>> Kuala Lumpur Day 1 (Part 2)