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Monday, June 15, 2009

Cool retreat - Cameron Highlands, BOH land, strawberries and Jagung

To be Honest, after 35 years in this universe, I only been to Cameron Highlands twice.  Cannot remember when is the first time i went, but i know is quite some time after the new Simpang Pulai Link is ready, and after the massive landslide too.  The second trip is very recent too, to be precised, last month 23th-24th spending one cool night there.

Why Cameron Highlands and not Genting Highland?  since the later is nearer to My house and colder too!  Well Genting just do not offer the relaxation in Cameron Highland, Even the journey there is approximately 3.5 hours.  In Genting, the bright blinking neon lights make you headache, the gold hair ah beng on their way to the casino put you off with their foul mouth.  While in Cameron, you are greeted by a remote settlement of farm workers, although nowadays, cameron is fast becoming too commercialised but this place still has vast place of greenery, and the weather is so blissful.  I do not mind going there again, anyone game for a hike up to Gunung Brinchang?


for this time, i took the old road up to Cameron, a bit winding but it is a good track your F1 cornering skills.   The first refreshing sight and sound that greeted us was this waterfall, nice! i never been to a waterfall up close b4, poor ole me...
SG. Palas Boh Plantation.  yes Tea is associated to Cameron, and Tea is associated with "BOH"...ada ummph!  I believed only in Cameron, you can buy the Sg. Palas Supreme, which is 100% exported to UK.


Flowers and cactus, abundant in Cameron Highlands, if your local florist charging you thru the nose for a simple arrangement, come up here and buy 3 basket load of here.  Of course you need to arrange it yourself la..(which is not so difficult la....I show you later)

after spending the night with friends over a hearty homemade steamboat and some chill neat single malt whiskey...i feel can take on the whole world again..just hope the rest of "my world" is as cool as the wheather here.

For those who cook at home, a visit to the fresh market is a must.  plenty of fresh vege to pick from.  Although the price is still cheap but the difference is not much if you compared to Tesco or even the local market back in Penang/KL.  But the freshness 100% guarenteed so is the amount of pesticide..hahahahah.  So please clean it properly before you eat it.


We stopped by "EAT POH" for "Kai See Hor Fun"(late lunch) and of course we will not forget to buy Aun Kheng Salted chicken back home as dinner.  When we have the opportunity to stopped by Ipoh, we also will buy some tiger head "heong Pneah"  yum..yum..taste...so nice..

Sigh..as we proceed our way back to KL, the thermometer of our car showing the outside temperature was 36c...haiz...back to nerve frying, brain boiling reality...and the need to clean up the mess created during the holiday...


I wish i can afford a maid!

This bolanliap flowers arrangment...sui bo?


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