One sister was on her semester break and the other was waiting for her entrance to form 6 and I had leave which could be put to good use so up we go to the cool chilly hills for a short family trip. Our expedition begins on Saturday and I summarized it in a few categories below. It feels to me like ranting with good info for those who intend to go there sometime soon. Enjoy the read. ;)
Accommodation
Hotel Titiwangsa located @ Brinchang.
RM 288 per night for a family room consisting of 2 king beds with breakfast and dinner for 4. Cheapest deal we could get, for a place in Brinchang. Decent hotel I must say. We were allowed to check in about 2 hours earlier. Check in timing was 3pm. The only setback for this is the food that tasted just average (50/100) and the fact that the room faced the main road, which can be quite disturbing.
Rating: 6.5/10
Our hotel!
Hotel room. Not bad looking right?
There. Our steamboat dinner. Clear soup. Additional RM3 per person for tom yam soup. #Fail
SUPERB! It was about 20 degrees. We were contented.
10/10
Activities
On the first day, we went cruising around Brinchang and started our tour at the peak. We began with the cactus farm, followed by the bee farm, then 2 strawberry farms. We basically went to all the farms because that is all they have there. Lol!
Pretty pretty flowers @ the cactus farm.
Humongous!
Trying to see if it's sharp or not.
When sometimes it's better to take our own pictures. ;)
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My cute parents.
She is just being curious.
Another word of advise. Strawberries are cheapest at the night markets.You can choose to purchase them at the farms but those a slightly pricey. Strawberries can't be kept long so if you intend to bring it down, buy it only on the day you're going back home. Not even the day before. We bought some and learned our lesson. Some of them turned overripe just within the night although the weather is cold. Now the tip on where to buy. Go to the market located near hotel equitorial. They have the same exact things at the night market and the people there are more friendly. If you like roses, look for dried ones there. They look exactly like the live ones just that this one don't need water and it can last for about a year or 2? Seems like I'm promoting the Equitorial market. I think because that's the place we got rather good deals from the stalls. Haha!
Came second day, we went to the morning market and then took a drive down to Tanah Rata to see the 'hutan lipur' and the boh tea plantation.
The stalls look all the same.
Mother nature.
Today was just more for rest and relax under the nice weather. Dinner again sucked. We opted to eat out of the hotel to try something else but it failed on us too. To add salt to the wound, the price wasn't that fascinating. Oh well... tourist area I guess.
Tea plantation
Playing hide and seek.
#musttry strawberry tarts. Available at the shop below our hotel. RM 2 each. yums!
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Loved the weather. Disliked the food. One weird thing we realized during our whole stay in Cameron's is about the ambulance. They go up and down the road, with the sirens on mind you, for a good couple of times. Not sure if there are really a lot of sick people around. I also disliked most of the people there cos they're so cool. My sister says it's because of the weather. Hmm.. I wonder...




























































