In our quest to try to stay fit we thought we’d do some hiking up to the Tea Plantations. The closest one to us was the Boh Tea Plantation, the largest tea plantation in Malaysia. Taking the local bus from Tanah Rata, we made our way out of town early enough. The weather was perfect- [...]
Postcard Friday: Cameron Highlands The Cameron Highlands were a wonderful escape from the heat that had followed us from Bangkok to Kuala Lumpur. Here, high in the mountains, with lush tea leaf landscapes all around us, I finally felt like the sticky heat feeling had left me and I wanted to stay here for [...]
After reading about all the tours offered to hike through the mossy forest, aka Gunung Brinchang, we decided we’d do it ourselves and not on a tour, since we’d only be allowed a limited amount of time in the forest and we wanted to stay as long as we liked to take some photographs. Gunung [...]
I’d been really missing Peru and its jungle full of insects lately. Sounds crazy but I was having bug withdrawals! Since we knew Malaysia to have a variety of amazing bug creatures we took a trip over to the Selamat Datang Butterfly and Insect Farm. It turned out to be one of the best days yet [...]
What better way to start your day than to pick your own strawberries? This was my idea before our wander around the Cameron Highlands. We were going to attempt to visit a tea plantation-but not on a tour, just walking there ourselves. Bur first things first-some sweet strawberries to munch on along the way. Mike [...]
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