Ooh green stuff, lotsa green stuff..
Hehhe crappy title eh..
A warning - this post is long.
Got back from Cameron yesterday night. Here's my "travel/trip report" (sounds so formal, hahh HW n Sweng you guys missed out so here's a running commentary/ramble on the trip =P )
Participants: 8 (the usual ppl plus some additions, of course)
Time we met: 7am Lorraine's place
Time LK met up: 7.30am Lorraine's place (he exists in a separate time zone from the rest of us ahaha)
We went up to Simpang Pulai, makan breakfast at Foh San, then took the new road up to Cameron. The road's actually better than expected, for me, at least. I haven't taken the Tapah way before, though everyone says that road’s really winding and steep. The new road reminds me of the East-West highway. Scenic with lush scenery and sweeping curves, oh, and also very steep drops down. Took around an hour, I think, for us to reach Kg Raja. From there could see all those slopes with agricultural produce, nopes, no tea plantations yet. Approached Brinchang after noon through Kea Farm and the Equatorial side.
SP booked us a house behind CountryLodge and whoa it was indeed a good deal. Thinking that each room had 2 single beds, it actually had 2 double beds each, so with 4 rooms, could've easily accomodated 15ppl, and all for the sum of Ringgit 200! (HW - you won't get such a good deal in Aus!! hahh gloating back here) We ended up using only 3 rooms, with 4 in our room. The double-storey house belongs to the Cactus Valley owner, plus they pack some farm produce in the house compound (which means we can get fresh stuff cheap!). Its extremely near the shops, coupla minutes walk only, so its really convenient.
Basically this trip is one which involved food, a lot of it. Hmm what did we do there besides makan and more makan - visited the Bee Farm (where Sam *bought* his best friend - Jack!), Butterfly Farm (but didn't go in), Kea Farm - market and the Sungai Palas [Boh] tea plantation. Didn't stop long at the plantation but gosh the views were fab. The road there's rather narrow and me being abit blur actually thought it was one way till I saw the oncoming cars.. By then it was about early evening, we headed over to Equatorial and bummed around at its grounds, taking more silly pics of ppl posing (not me-la, LK as usual). At night weather was cool, we didn't do much, had steamboat for dinner, visited the night market, pretty interesting. And thats a Saturday well spent..
Sunday..(by now my hands aching from typing already le)..woke up at 4.40am. Again took the Sg Palas road and continued further to go up to Gunung Brinchang. Was very steep at some parts, windy and really narrow..abit scary, cos its so dark and we seemed to be heading nowhere (we really were in the middle of nowhere, no lights, nothing)
We ended up at the peak, and it was SUPERcold up there, even with a jacket. I couldn't even tahan standing outside for long. But anyways we were too early so all ended up sleeping in the car. Hahh actually missed the proper sunrise, cos sunrise was at the other side of the mountain, as in we were facing the opposite side and the view was blocked by the communications tower and another structure. It was only after daybreak that we noticed there were stairs leading to an observation tower..Sigh...but the view was simply fantastic. Abit *wasted* that SP they all didn't see these sights. I'd trade sleep for those precious sights anytime. Coming down the gunung, views were as good, though Lorraine and Chris probably aren't that used to us stopping every few minutes to take pics =)
^Talking bout cameras..Hahh those who’ve been on our trips would know why I put the *hahh* in the beginning of this sentence! With his digicam, LK is taking more pics than usual, but the ratio of humans to greenery is probably 1:15 shots at least this time round..
Hmm the rest of the day..spent some time at the Cactus Valley, walked about most of the place. IMHO its worth visiting if you're in the area, cos there're more things to see than elsewhere. Nothing much happened after that, went to Tanah Rata for a late lunch then left Camerons. Again reached Ipoh went *makan*-ing (yes, makan again) then its back to KL at night.
END.
Final thoughts: It was nice to get away from *town-life* in PJ. Cameron, with its clear and refreshing air seems capable of clearing the clutter from one's mind, a well worth change from our typical hazy air of late, if only for a day or two..
*might post some pics soon..
*MU 3-0 Millwall (Poor me couldn't watch in Cameron, the place we stayed only had rtm1&2..)
A warning - this post is long.
Got back from Cameron yesterday night. Here's my "travel/trip report" (sounds so formal, hahh HW n Sweng you guys missed out so here's a running commentary/ramble on the trip =P )
Participants: 8 (the usual ppl plus some additions, of course)
Time we met: 7am Lorraine's place
Time LK met up: 7.30am Lorraine's place (he exists in a separate time zone from the rest of us ahaha)
We went up to Simpang Pulai, makan breakfast at Foh San, then took the new road up to Cameron. The road's actually better than expected, for me, at least. I haven't taken the Tapah way before, though everyone says that road’s really winding and steep. The new road reminds me of the East-West highway. Scenic with lush scenery and sweeping curves, oh, and also very steep drops down. Took around an hour, I think, for us to reach Kg Raja. From there could see all those slopes with agricultural produce, nopes, no tea plantations yet. Approached Brinchang after noon through Kea Farm and the Equatorial side.
SP booked us a house behind CountryLodge and whoa it was indeed a good deal. Thinking that each room had 2 single beds, it actually had 2 double beds each, so with 4 rooms, could've easily accomodated 15ppl, and all for the sum of Ringgit 200! (HW - you won't get such a good deal in Aus!! hahh gloating back here) We ended up using only 3 rooms, with 4 in our room. The double-storey house belongs to the Cactus Valley owner, plus they pack some farm produce in the house compound (which means we can get fresh stuff cheap!). Its extremely near the shops, coupla minutes walk only, so its really convenient.
Basically this trip is one which involved food, a lot of it. Hmm what did we do there besides makan and more makan - visited the Bee Farm (where Sam *bought* his best friend - Jack!), Butterfly Farm (but didn't go in), Kea Farm - market and the Sungai Palas [Boh] tea plantation. Didn't stop long at the plantation but gosh the views were fab. The road there's rather narrow and me being abit blur actually thought it was one way till I saw the oncoming cars.. By then it was about early evening, we headed over to Equatorial and bummed around at its grounds, taking more silly pics of ppl posing (not me-la, LK as usual). At night weather was cool, we didn't do much, had steamboat for dinner, visited the night market, pretty interesting. And thats a Saturday well spent..
Sunday..(by now my hands aching from typing already le)..woke up at 4.40am. Again took the Sg Palas road and continued further to go up to Gunung Brinchang. Was very steep at some parts, windy and really narrow..abit scary, cos its so dark and we seemed to be heading nowhere (we really were in the middle of nowhere, no lights, nothing)
We ended up at the peak, and it was SUPERcold up there, even with a jacket. I couldn't even tahan standing outside for long. But anyways we were too early so all ended up sleeping in the car. Hahh actually missed the proper sunrise, cos sunrise was at the other side of the mountain, as in we were facing the opposite side and the view was blocked by the communications tower and another structure. It was only after daybreak that we noticed there were stairs leading to an observation tower..Sigh...but the view was simply fantastic. Abit *wasted* that SP they all didn't see these sights. I'd trade sleep for those precious sights anytime. Coming down the gunung, views were as good, though Lorraine and Chris probably aren't that used to us stopping every few minutes to take pics =)
^Talking bout cameras..Hahh those who’ve been on our trips would know why I put the *hahh* in the beginning of this sentence! With his digicam, LK is taking more pics than usual, but the ratio of humans to greenery is probably 1:15 shots at least this time round..
Hmm the rest of the day..spent some time at the Cactus Valley, walked about most of the place. IMHO its worth visiting if you're in the area, cos there're more things to see than elsewhere. Nothing much happened after that, went to Tanah Rata for a late lunch then left Camerons. Again reached Ipoh went *makan*-ing (yes, makan again) then its back to KL at night.
END.
Final thoughts: It was nice to get away from *town-life* in PJ. Cameron, with its clear and refreshing air seems capable of clearing the clutter from one's mind, a well worth change from our typical hazy air of late, if only for a day or two..
*might post some pics soon..
*MU 3-0 Millwall (Poor me couldn't watch in Cameron, the place we stayed only had rtm1&2..)
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