Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Cameron Higlands - cup of tea ?

Up in the highlands between the East and West coast of peninsula mayalsia lies a nice retreat from the heat - the Cameron highlands. This is an area with lots of agriculture, fruit farming and tea plantations. We spent a couple of relaxing days getting back to our english roots having tea and scones and touring the Boh Tea Estate.





We arranged for a local guide to take us on a day hike through the highlands and had a rather spooky experience - at one point he stopped nervously and had us huddle together with Caroline in the middle, he sniffed the air and would not say the name of what he thought was stalking us... we could only guess that it was a tiger or too much fruit wine - at another point he asked if we new of anyone in our family that had recently passed away, he seemed convinced that a small ghost was following us on the path. Clearly the altitude and cool weather affects people in different ways !

On another day we visited the local butterfly and insects farm - we saw a lot of bugs that made us feel itchy and nervous, and some of the largest butterflies we have ever seen.