Night Bus to Cameron Highlands

Finally... on the way to Cameron with Ah Boo. We planned this trip for so long, and I almost thought it won't materialised. But it did. Slept for a bit on the way there. But when the uphill ride starts, both of us were tossed and turned like pasta in a bowl. We gave up on sleeping and focus on trying to NOT get car-sick. Ah Boo took her motion-sickness pill and tried to rest. I tried in vain to get back to sleep. I was feeling cold, even in my jeans! When we finally reached our destination, we went for breakfast. I only drank Milo as I think I would throw out whatever I take now. I still felt sick, even after resting and walking around the area. When I finally fall asleep in the bus, some woman from a local day-tour came on and started a speech. But her speech was so long and dry that it made me sound asleep again.

After resting for about two hours in our hotel room, we took a cab down to Tanah Rata. Ah Boo has done her research and she wanted to try the scones at T-Cafe. We ordered a banana cake (yes, that black coloured thing is a cake), apple-pie and scones to share. I had fruit salad and mushroom soup, while Ah Boo chose French onion soup and tofu burger. We both preferred our desserts to the main. Ah Boo worried non-stop about me getting hungry with so little food. Hahaha! Am used to it!!

Our half-day tour took us to the Rose Garden, which took us to one of the highest point in the highlands. Though the climb was tough, the effort was worth it! The scenery was superb. Ah Boo said she can feel her feet trembling. The sunflowers there were abundant and pretty. My favourite flower!! I got Ah Boo to take a photo for me and she said it's a weird angle to take photo. But this turned out to be one of my favourite picture!! Up next, we ventured towards BOH tea plantation.

It was acres and acres of tea plants, as the plantation workers harvest the tea leaves at different level of the mountains everyday. Their wages is count by the amount of leaves they plucked per day. It was a self-sufficient community with mosque, Indian temple, Chinese temple and church inside the plantation. There is also a school for the kids and basically, the people who worked here need not leave the mountains. Whoa!! Probably the kind of lifestyle I should have now...at least for a while. Anyway, we took a tour in the tea leaves processing factory and we bought lots of tea back. Though I could only drink de-caf now.

Then it was a visit to a Bee Farm where I almost bought honey. Once again, we have to navigate the small paths and steep stairs that took us up and down the hills. It was a workout that was found lacking in my life for quite some time. Though tired, I felt shiok. Initially, we were afraid of bees attack, but our fears were unfounded. I was actually very tempted to buy some honey back, but I managed to curb the urge to spend money everywhere and thought I should save some money to buy some chilli Ah Boo was talking about home.

After that, we make our way to a Time Tunnel of Cameron Highlands. Ah boo said the things displayed there that would touched my heart most would be the memorabilia of Malaysia Cup and the camera that shoot on film. Actually, the things that connected with me was the old provision shop that had the dried goods, rices and stuff packed in big, brown paper bags, especially the pulley system where they kept the money in tin cans. Mum always said this was how people used to run provision shops. All the shop owners knew their customers very well.

After a great workout, we had steamboat for dinner. We were so hungry that we forgot to take photo of the huge feast we had. And it was CHEAP!! Hahaha!! And we took a shuttle service back to our hotel. Ah Boo said she got this info from the spill of speech by the woman this morning. But I have no recollection of it whatsoever!