In the late afternoon on Fridays and weekends, makeshift stalls and mobile vans will start to move into the big open carpark in Brinchang, just opposite/outside the Police station. This place in just a few hours will be swarmed with stalls selling food, titbits and other local produce. This is the Pasar Malam(Night market) of Brinchang. The late afternoon rain did little to dampen the mood as people from all directions in no time turned this place into a crowded market as soon as the rain stopped. By then, the sky was near dark. The irresistible aroma of local fares like Nasi Padang, fried mushrooms, titbits and other snacks filled the air. They even sell fresh honey combs coated with honey. In a small and simple hill station where there aren't many night activities, this night market is one of the attractions one must visit.
Updated May 24, 2012
Tanah Rata did not change much from the last time I visited Cameron Highlands many years ago. At the very least, the tense and fearful feeling up the long, winding and dangerously narrow road from Tapah was still there.
Updated May 24, 2012
Cameron Highlands can be considered as the biggest rose growing center with so much variety of roses growing here. There you can find yellow roses, red roses, orange roses, purple roses and many other colors.
Admission Fee : RM4 adult, RM2 children.
Written May 17, 2012
Strawberry farms, you can find many around Brinchang, Tanah Rata and Kea Farm. I just loved and fascinated to see the strawberries grown locally in Malaysia. I wished I could plucked them and pop into my mouth ;-)) Such lovely dainty fruits.
Written May 17, 2012
The Bharat tea and BOH tea established their tea plantations in Cameron Highlands. They are located along the road side, easily visible and you may stop and have a cup of tea and some snacks. The experience is different.
Written May 11, 2012
Address: Berinchang, Cameron Highlands
Cameron Highlands is the largest tea-growing region in Malaysia, with plantations become the top tourist attractions of the area. In the past home to a number of different tea producers, nowadays, with land and capital being diverted to more profitable vegetable farming, there are only two companies left in business: Boh (owner of the brand Boh Cameronian) and Bharat (owner of the brand Cameron Valley). Both companies produce black tea.
The easier yet absolutely rewarding estate to visit is the Bharat plantation (cover photo of this posting), right on the Cameron Highland highway, past Ringlet, before entering into Tanah Rata. From the highway you can't miss the scenic view over the plantation and you can easily stop on the roadside to enjoy the panorama, walk through the tea field and/or to enjoy a cup of tea at one of the two tea house facilities.
The Boh Sungai Palas plantation - my plantation of choice - is even more impressive with a magnificent panorama of tea fields stretching across the valley and slopes. Sungai Palace has more extensive tourist facility comprising a tea center, a visitor gallery (with history of the company and description of the the tea processing) and a show factory. Sungai Palas estate is located in an isolated valley past Brinchang and you will have to drive here on purpose. There is a narrow road which leads to the plantation which gets easily jammed in during rush hour. In crowded weekend days, my advise would be to arrive and leave before 11:00 am. In my case, I made it quite easily to the plantation in the morning, then, hitting rush hour, it took me about an hour to get back to the main road, and back on my way.
If you have time to spare, you may also want to check out Boh's Habu plantation, located between Ringlet and Tanah Rata. This is the largest tea plantation in the Cameron Highlands but with a less dramatic panorama than Sungai Palas and a more complicated access than Bharat. You will find the usual tea house serving and selling the tea of the house and a functioning factory open to public.
Free entrance at every of the plantations mentioned above. At time of my visit, both Boh's plantations were closed on Mondays.
Updated Apr 24, 2012
Last month I visited the BOH tea plantation (Sungai Palas) the tea shop had many local products for sale. They had also an very interesting information book for sale Cameron Highlands Discover the history. I settled myself down for an afternoon tea and went through the book. All the old photographs and detailed information brought me back into history which added something special to my afternoon tea.
Written Mar 29, 2012
Website: www.cameronhighlandshistory.com
Our afternoon tour was more on shopping or you may just engage in photography, the Agro Delight tour:
1st stop: Beautiful flower nursery
2nd stop: Water cress farm
3rd stop: Open terraces of conventional farming
4th stop: Cactus Point
5th stop: Strawberry farm with self-picking of sberries allowed
Next stop after dinner: Night market at Brinchang town, only on Saturdays.
This tour costs 60 ringgit. You also have the option to add your dinner with steam boat in a hotel at a discounted price. An additional fee is paid for the night market.
Updated Mar 19, 2012
Address: Cameron Highlands
Since public transportation is not common in the highlands, I was compelled to avail of the packaged tours offered by agencies in the town. This could be pricey but this is the best option if you don’t have your own car here.
In my 2nd day, I went on a Nature Discovery tour as my morning tour:
1st Stop: Boh Tea Plantation
2nd Stop: a drive up to the highest point of Camerons - Mt. Brinchang, the height is easy to remember at 6666 ft above sea level.
3rd Stop: a short trek to the mossy forest
4th stop: a sojourn to the village of the natives, the Orang Asli
This tour costs 50 ringgit.
Updated Mar 19, 2012
Address: Cameron Highlands
The traders have value added or cooked their farm products for a better price at the Saturday night market. It has also ease the tourists to taste the food immediately. Today, the sweet potato, the pumpkin, the yam are made into just like a fish ball and serve deep fried. If you like deep fried food, you can get spinach, mushroom, yam cooked in this way. The Malaysian favourites food like nasi ayam, deep fried chicken, deep fried seafoods and many type of drinks are on sale here for you. Enjoy all of them, feel full and your dinner is done here, in the night market.
Updated Mar 18, 2012
Address: the Berinchang Main Road
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