Hi Folks!

Hi Folks!
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Hi, its me again...Peterpatterpot.

Set on this short road trip, a local one-day getaway from the city of Kuala Lumpur. With my 2 best friends, we got our wheels rolling real early in the morning, before sunrise... just to let you know this is a very extremely unusual behavior of my 2 friends to wake up so early. ...Camerons must be special !

Cameron Highlands was named after and discovered in 1885 by an Englishman William Cameron during a survey operation in the Titiwangsa Mountain Range. The British colonists recognised its potential for growing tea, a precious commodity then.
Over time, townships began to sprout around the Highlands as the tea plantations grew. Today it is a popular tourist destination to visit on holiday due to its cooling atmosphere and serene environment and its picturesque scenery.

In terms of culture, the Chinese makes up the largest community in Cameron Highlands, running most of the businesses and plantations in the valley.

121km east of Ipoh and 214km north of Kuala Lumpur, sitting at 1500masl, it is the highest area on the mainland.

It would seem easier to choose the Simpang Pulai road. However coming from KL, you need additional 20mins drive from Tapah to the Simpang Pulai exit. Slightly longer time but worth the scenic view of the valley and mountain ranges as you drive up to Blue Valley. At this junction, turn right, down towards Kampong Raja and down to Tanah Rata. At Blue Valley junction, if venture straight across, one would eventually come out at Gua Musang on the east coast. From Kampong Raja down, endless vege farms and strawberry farms spread out over the undulating highlands. Kea Farm is a very popular market where you can get everything from freshly picked corn to strawberries and honey!

Tapah road is more winding and narrow but reaches the southern towns of Camerons ie Ringlet and Tanah Rata in an hour or less fr Kuala Lumpur.

so begins another adventure of Peterpatterpot...

Third Stop-The Market Place

Market Place

Make sure you get the right one. There are a few market places but the best one is the one with many cars park along the roads. Dont go to the wrong one because you will get conned.

I met some buddies of mine but they are hairless. If you feed them water they will grow green hairs!Cool! They dont speak,no mouth.


Letch found the lady with the sweetess corns.I think we were conned here too.


These capsicums were a bargain.RM5 a whole basket! Lovely colours!




Strawberries are never sweet when they come from Cameron Highlands no matter how red they look. Local sellers would say'masam manis' but its more like 'masam masam mana manis'. Shop around for the best bargain and dont buy from the first vendor. If in season its e v e r y w h e r e! Best bargain I found was rm10 for 3 boxes of medium size. Tuts got cheated and paid rm10 for 1 box of awful sour vitamin c boost strawberries.



Letch in action! Imagine this conversation:-

L:"Give cheaper!Lebih murah!"
Vendor:"Vely cheap la...5 ringgit."
L:"ok i buy 2,u free 1."
Vendor:"Sollyla auntie...cannot cheaper.5 ringgit cheap cheap.
L:"4 ringgit i buy...!"
(5 minutes of mindless hassling and eventually vendors do give in to something)
Vendor:"aiya....okla 4 ringgit."
L:"ok but i come back later."


This is a regular daily conversation in the marketplace so Letch did extremely well.I love her!So much fun!



We compared corns from 3 stalls. The first stall was from the first market place that was 'not' the real market place with a very aggresive chinese lady. She took us on a tsunami ride, practically sold us everything in 5 minutes,grab our money and shoved us out of her stall. We didnt know what hit us until we were back in the car with a trunkload of soggy old corns and expensive horribly sour strawberries. No photographs of her because of tsunami attack.
This corn stall had the best bargain,rm10 for 8!! Most delicious corns. Its by the main road on makeshift tables and umbrellas with young malay girl vendor. Letch was blown away my the best corny bargain!
So we got more corns which in the end made up for the bad corns,get it?

she had the best corns that day !!! and imagine we ended up back in the city with soooo many corns !!!

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