Travel By Photo – Cameron Highlands

Cameron Highlands is one of the most popular weekend getaway destination in Malaysia. It is a highland resort located at the northern region of Pahang state, some 200 km north of Kuala Lumpur. At over 1,500 m above sea level,  Cameron Highlands enjoys a year round cool climate between 25 °C to 12°C. In contrast to the man-made 24-hour entertaintment city of Genting Highland, Cameron Highlands is all about natural beauty. We love the highland for its serenity, cool environment and of course our favorite ‘Steamboat’ lunch and dinner, not forgetting the freshly brewed tea.

Earlier this year, we re-visited Cameron Highlands and checked into the same hotel as on our previous visit, the Smoke House Suite in Tanah Rata. We loved this resort so much after having an unforgettable stay here 5 years ago during our Christmas Eve celebration.

We loved to enjoy its English breakfast at the garden terrace where you could taste one of the best freshly baked scones and locally grown tea that you could find in the highlands.

I still remembered the beautiful garden outside of the resort where we could oversee the one and only championship golf course of Cameron Highlands next to it. Until dusk, we drove down to Tanah Rata town centre for our steamy hot steamboat dinner at Mayflower Chinese Restaurant, one of the oldest restaurant in town. It is definitely a wonderful experience to sit in front of a cooker with steaming soup, boil your own selections of vegetables, meat and seafoods, and eat it in the cool breezy evening (Must try it at RM12-22 per person). Some will also be drinking beers as side orders, count me in please!

The next morning was the perfect weather to visit the infamous Bharat Tea plantation along the main road in between Tanah Rata and Ringlet, the next major town down the Cameron Highlands. We stopped by and enjoyed the scenic view of the tea plantation and had a cuppa in the small stall there, before we headed back to Brinchang for flower and vegetable shopping!

Brinchang is the upper town of the highlands. It’s the home of strawberry farms, cactus valley, flower nurseries, vegetable markets and bees farm and many more. Whenever we go to Cameron Highlands, we must buy home some vegetables, strawberries and as well as pearl-sweet-corn. This time around, we bought also flowers and cactus for our new home.

We came here to Cameron Highlands from Tapah, Perak state and we were going back to K.L. from the other side of the mountain via Simpang Pulai and Ipoh. Along our half way down the highland, we had our lunch at this chinese restaurant of Kowloon. By the time we reached back home, it was already at night. This is how we spent our 2D1N stay in Cameron Highlands, normally. For those who are going to visit Malaysia, Cameron Highlands is your Must-Go destination for its unbeatable cool, serene, green environment with delicious local steamboat delicacy and freshly brewed highland tea (Download Visit Guide Here). For me, it’s alway a perfect escape destination with lots of sweet memories. – Travel Feeder.

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Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.