29/01/09
It’s been ages since the last time I visited Cameron Highlands. I remembered I was in primary school time and I went with my family to Cameron Highlands… staying at some resort, somewhere near Strawberry Park… ahh, nevermind, I vaguely remember the detail anymore!
This time we went to Cameron Highland with our cell group S3. There were 10 of us!! The sad thing about it is this was going to be our last trip with S3′s cell group since we have multiplied. Jolene, RuehYinn and myself will moved to a new cell group under S8. This trip just came timely before we officially attend our first cell group meeting in 2009. It would be remembered as the sweetest gathering between 3 of us and the rest of the group members. We have been together since 2006 and time really flies…
We gathered at Jenli’s house at 8am and “pai nien” (english: Chinese New Year’s house visitation) at the same time. It would be my first time too to step into Jenli’s house. While waiting for other cell group members we help ourselves with Jenli’s Chinese New Year cookies and on top of that each of one us got an “ang pau” (english: red packet) from Jenli’s mum. Thank you Jenli and aunty…hehehe!
After praying for journey mercy we left before 9am…
Praying for journey mercy…
The journey was long (took us more than 3 hours) not because it was far but because the road to Cameron Highland is so winding and since it was school holiday, the road was jam packed with cars.
When we arrived at Cameron Highlands it was over 12pm, and the first thing was to check into the apartment we’ve booked few weeks earlier. We booked a 3 bedroom apartment provided by Hill View Inn. I strongly recommend this apartment if you have more than 8 people in the group. It is a huge apartment. In total, each of us only paid RM45 per pax for a night stay. The room is furnished with sofa, magazines, television, Hi – Fi and even kitchen though you have to share with another group. The apartment is located at Tanah Rata and you will not have problem looking for food, banks and even Starbucks…
The journey is slow…
Not to forget to pray for safety at Cameron Highland.. (a lot of people credited on this shot)
Since none of us had a proper breakfast other than having some CNY’s cookies at Jenli’s house, the next thing in mind is to hunt for lunch. As mentioned, you will not have problem finding places to eat. You can get Indian food, Malay food, Western food, Chinese food… you name it and you have it. Best of all, the prices are reasonable. Since it was holiday season, all the restaurant was very packed too but we’re fortunate to find a place to fill our stomach.
The group after a satisfying lunch, everyone is happy… 
After lunch, we proceeded to the Kea’s Farm. Our main objective is to try the famous fried mushroom, sweet potatoes balls and fried sweet potatoes. Every packet is sold only for RM2.00 – RM3.00 depending on what you buy. Very affordable and I guarantee you, you will not have enough..
The shop that sells the best fried mushroom, sweet potatoes ball and fried sweet potates… beware of counterfeit ! People have to queue for the sweet potatoes ball I tell you.
RuehYinn with his yummy fried sweet potatoes…
After that we quickly ran back to our cars under the rain to go to our next destination, the strawberry farm. Since the road is was so overly congested to go to the strawberry farm that we wanted to go (more on Part 2), we had to detour to go to the nearest strawberry farm instead. The first strawberry farm would be the Raju’s but it was closed at 4.30pm and since it was raining, there is no strawberry plucking allowed. So if you happen to go to Cameron Highland, avoid raining season and don’t go too late. Anyway, the shop at Raju’s is still open, we took the opportunity to taste some of the local strawberry products like:-
Strawberry Ice Cream..
Ahhh, strawberrycakes and little cupcakes… (we didn’t try them though)…
We simply can’t resist the strawberry ice cream…hehehe!
Finger licking good ya Jolene?!
Sweet picture of us…
Not satisfied we then moved to the nearby strawberry farm, the EQ Strawberry Farm. However we met with the same fate, the farm is closed and you can only see the strawberry plants from the outside and no picking on that day. Feeling a little despair (hahaha, no lah…since this is not the farm we intended to go anyway), we only get to take few pictures…
The group (without Lex) at EQ Strawberry Farm…
Another one, which turn out to be RuehYinn’s favorite…
We drove back after that since it was already late and not much attractions left. The whole journey took us more than an hour for just a 8km stretch of road. That was how bad the traffic at Cameron Highland. Therefore, the moral of the story is never never go up to Cameron Highland during peak period. The first day itself, we spent more than half of the time on the road but it was all good since we have a really good laugh in the car…
We had our own steamboat dinner in the apartment and I find it complements best with the cold weather at Cameron Highland. Seriously, if you were to open up all the windows and sliding doors, you don’t need to air-conditioner anymore in the apartment.. it was like spring weather…really nice.
The steamboat…
Eat, eat, eat…
Next we proceed to play game, thanks to our game master… Ms. Jolene, who never fail us with good card games. This time she introduced Citadels to us. It was pretty difficult to understand the rules and roles of the game initially, what more to play the game. But after we got familiar, some of us got so addicted with the game until they ended sleeping at 3.30am and one of them is RuehYinn…poor him, he woke up next morning with big panda eyes…hehehe!
The most interesting and addictive game!!!!
Come … let’s play and strategize..hehe!
One day at Cameron Highland just passby in a blink of eyes! More of Cameron Highland in the second post. Click on the following link for the partially completed album of S3′s Cameron Highland trip. I am currently editing on a few more pictures, need few more days before finish editing the whole pictures. At the mean time, please enjoy:-
Cameron Highland Trip Photo Album
