It was Cameron Highlands Day! With the super warm and humid whether in the low-lands of Ipoh (actually, it’s the whole of Peninsular Malaysia), my family decided to head to Cameron’s for a dose of fresh air, tea/coffee in a cold environment! We were lucky, as it wasn’t very sunny at Cameron’s. Felt like it was going to rain, the weather was cool and nice..
We went up in 2 cars where the 2nd car consists of me and my bro. My brother drove up the hill while I slept. And I drove the rest of the Cameron’s trip. Our first stop was to buy ‘real pearl corns’. The corns there are really sweet and the corns itself has a mixture of white and yellow corn bits. We also went to Rose Gardens to look at beautiful roses and other flowers.
Some flowers are very nice.. May varieties of rose in different colours. There’s the pink rose at the top, there’s yellow rose, red rose..
There’s even the black rose!
The black rose is actually from a red rose where it turns black when it grows older.
Like from the picture above, the back of the red rose begins to turn black.. Or at least, that’s what my father told me..
There are also many nice flowers, like the giant hibiscus..
The white rose (aka milk girl)
Even the bees are enjoying themselves collecting nectar from the flowers. The flowers are really sweet smelling, by the way..
Okay.. Enough with the flowers… We took some pictures around – my dad wanted to take a picture with this mermaid statue. The story is that the mermaid is a being longing for her lost love, awaiting for his return..
We went to the “ye olde smokehouse” for some scones, tea and coffee.. My brother took me posing at the grand piano.. haha
The ‘adults’ are drinking tea while the kids were also having their own fun time..
We then ate lunch at Cafe Downtown at Tanah Rata. It was a 4pm lunch… Imagine.. haha.. The food there is very nice. Their chicken chop and char koay teow is very nice!
Right after that, we headed to the tea plantation for a cup of tea and cheese cake!
We came here before 2 years ago… And look how the kids have grown!
Did I mention that my nieces are posers??
Marielle actually posed for the pictures! And she’s only like 2 yrs old.
Oh well.. maybe it runs in the family. My brother and my dad also same case…
Me? I only take with my niece…
After that, we went to the Laban Rata Waterfall! It’s on the way down from Cameron’s towards Tapah.
The waterfall there is quite nice. Very refreshing… Had quite a long pit stop here for the kids to play… Too bad I didn’t bring any change of clothes… Otherwise, I’ll just dip right into the pool. What I did was just take a good walk around the waterfall.. hahah
For the Cameron Trip, had to thank my sis’s bf.. She wanted to bring him around and end up going to a lot of places. He paid for all our meals at Cameron’s.. How nice of him… =)
When we reached Ipoh, it’s already almost 9pm. We went straight for dinner at old town.
Then at 10pm, I met up with Jason Ling, Yee Weng and Kean Fatt at the Ramly Burger Stall. They had seats there and it’s not crowded at all over there. I was supposed to meet euwen also but in the end, he was out with his sam tet friends… Anyway, the 4 of us just sat there, and just chatted… Good to meet up with old school mates… =)
One thing that we learned from experience is to label our bowls. So not to mix them up with another person’s bowls.. I did the labelling of bowls!
There were lots of teasing (mainly on me), nonsensical talkings and well, the usual NTU stuff.. haha.. Felt like being a student again. Many of us there are a in pairs with the exception of some few eligible ones who refuse to go into one.
