Cameron Highlands

On the bus to the Cameron Highland Debs gave us the activity sheet for the local tours, although they were optional, if you didn't go on a tour there was little else to do.

Half the group opted for the full day hike off into the hills in search of a rare flower, however we opted for a half day local tour of near by attractions. Debs hadn't done this tour before so she decided to join us and also Becci and Michael.





The first stop on the tour was the rose garden which wasn't really that great but it was a good laugh trying to climb the steep hill to the top (Debs was well knackered).

The next stop was the strawberry farm where we expected to get to go round picking the strawberry and eat loads, but it wasn't quite like that so we ended up drinking the most amazing strawberry milkshake (apart from the ones I make). Our group also befriended a pakistani man who insisted on sharing the strawberries he had bought.

The next stop was the highlight, the butterfly farm. It had loads of cool insects and stuff you could hold like three horned rhino beetles, a huge gecko and a giant grasshoper, then loads of snakes and lizards in cages. Only after passing all these things did we get to the butterfly cage. There were loads of different types of butterflies with such colourful wings. We all had a laugh when Debs told some little boy off for trying to grab a butterfly.

The next stop was the tea plantation where we learnt all about tea plant and how they us only the tea dust for teabag. After the tour of the plantation we had a sit down for a cupper.

The pen-ultimate stop of the day was at a honey bee place where we expected to learn about and try honey, however it wasn't at all like that and after asking we got to try a little bit of honey dissolved in water.

Just outside the honey place was a small local market which we had some time to look round and there were loads of fruit we could try. Debs bought some fried banana and she insisted we all try some, it wasn't really that nice.

The last stop was a budist temple which was quite impressive with cool dragon status outside.
We thought that after the tour we would have an easy afternoon but an hour or so after we got back I realised that I had misplaced the camera so we had a mad hour trying to find it before following a phone call from Debs the tour guide found it on the minibus and brought it back (Phew).

We rounded off the day with the most interesting meal that we had had, chinese steam boat. It consisted of a boiling soup pot that we added various meat, fish and veg to, it was quite nice.