Cameron Highlands

Hello Walkers!

I am back for my Cameron Highland trip with family on 5 July 2014 - 6 July 2014.

We are travelling in a group of 15 person (3 cars - Citra, Persona, Kembara).

We started the journey quite late (around 2:30pm).

It took us about 3hours++ to reach our hotel/apartment where we had 1 stop in the middle.

We booked through Berjaya Vacation Club for our apartment and we got 2 units of 2-bedroom apartment.

Each unit has a queen-bedded room and 2-single bedded room. Rooms are spacious. There is lot of space where you can accommodate 1-2 more people in each room. Many pillows are provided. Each bed has 2 pillows (total 8 pillows on bed) and extra 3 pillows in the cabinet in each room. So total pillows available for each unit is 14 pillows!

Copthorne Hotel Cameron Highland 2-bedroom apartment

                                     

Our room also has a balcony. We did not stay a lot out in the balcony because the weather is way too cold and it's windy outside. The temperature (based on the hotel gigantic thermometer) in the evening is about 17-18 degree Celsius while early morning is about 14-15 degree Celsius. Afternoon is about 20-22 Celsius. It is quite windy there. I was quite satisfied with the room where there's a big mirror in front of the bathroom/toilet. Bed was ok. Only that the floor is quite dusty. Other than that, everything is quite good.    

Some hotel view

 In the evening, we traveled to Brinchang for dinner. I have googled about the steamboat restaurant and it seems that Kwan Kee Charcoal Steamboat has quite a good review. It was only 10-12 minutes away from our apartment. We were there at about 7:00pm and it was crowded. However, the queue was fast. We waited for about 15 minutes for our table (we need 2 tables). Each person is RM23.00. As for my opinion, the quality of the food has gone way down. Very limited food (for steamboat). My grandparents ordered some of their "zhuchar". They were good. We had some stir fry deer meat and claypot toufu.
P/S: Go for their zhuchar instead, steamboat is just worthless. 

Kwan Kee Charcoal Steamboat in Brinchang

We ended the night watching HBO in the room.

We woke up at 8:30am the next morning. It was way too cold (14 degree) that none of us wanted to get out of the blanket!

Anyway, we started our journey at about 9:30am to Tanah Rata to get our breakfast. We headed to Excellent Food Center.
Location: Opposite Hong Leong Bank, Tanah Rata
Business Hour: 7:30am - 8:00pm
Recommended food: Lamb Chop 
If you are coming from Brinchang, the building will be on your left side. There is a parking area behind the building or else, you can just park at the road side.

Excellent Food Center. A wide range of food option in one stop!

Then we headed to Cactus Valley. I DO NOT RECOMMEND people with old people to come here because there are lots of staircase here. Like my grandparents (76 years old) are not able to climb up those staircase.
Entrance fee: RM5 - adult RM3 - children (above 5)

The upper side of the valley is under renovation for expansion purposes I guess.

Flowers are better then torns.

We went to Cactus View Restaurant for late lunch.

You will see this place first before Cactus Valley so no need to worry that you can't find it!

The environment was under average. Many flies flying. BUT. Food was good. Their bak kut teh were good (both dry and soup).

Cactus View Restaurant

Going upper part of the place is the Big Red Strawberry Farm. Very steep road up. Self-picking strawberry is RM25/500g. We think that it does not worth it because packed strawberry are much bigger and sweeter than those hanging readily for you to pick! 

There is a cafe there where you can enjoy a wide range of strawberry-made food from strawberry with cream to strawberry juice. 

Location: http://bigredstrawberryfarm.com/location.htm

Entrance Fee: FOC

Big Red Strawberry Farm

We went to the Lavender Garden on our way back to Penang the next day.
Entrance fee: RM5 - adult, RM3 - children
I personally feel that it does not really worth it unless you're a big fan of photographing. You can take lots of beautiful flowers here. We did not stay here long worrying that our strawberry that we bought might spoil in the car.

Cameron Lavender Farm

Most recommended place: Agro-Technology Park MARDI Cameron Highland.
Entrance: RM3 - adult, RM1.50 student (7-17 years old)
Location: JKR266, Jalan Persiaran Endah, Tanah Rata, 39000, Tanah Rata, Pahang, Malaysia

SUPER WORTH IT.
We spent more than an hour and a half here.Beautiful English sculpture and building makes everything so beautiful!

There's an area where you can pick your own berry (blackberries, raspberries) for free.

MUST VISIT. 

We also visited the Time Tunnel.
Namely "TIME TUNNEL", we got to see old time favourite toys, old advertisement, old furniture and some other old stuff that my uncles and grandparents had before. It was fun listening to them talking about their old time memories
Entrance Fee: RM5 - adult, RM3 children.( above 5 years old)

I personally feel that it is less suitable for children below 5 because I can see that my 5 year old cousin feeling uncomfortable inside. If you know what I mean.

Have you seen these?

Feel free to comment below for any question or anything that you wanted to know about my trip. Hope that I can help you in planning your trip!

Happy Travelling!