Friday, May 18, 2012

Destination 12 - Cameron Highland, Pahang

Cameron Highland is a one of attraction place located in the state of Pahang. It is the largest and most famous hill resort in the country also still retains much of the charm of an English village. Cameron Highland also being a primarily agriculture domain. There are lot of vegetables and fruits farms . Besides that it also one of the place that produce flowers and tea in Malaysia. Located on the Titiwangsa Range at about 1500 metres above sea-level and the temperature here can drop to 16 degrees celcius or lower at certain times. There are 4 main townships followed by smaller settlements at different elevations. The first town from the from the south is Ringlet then Tanah Rata, Brinchang, Kea Farm, Tringkap, Kuala Terla and Kampung Raja. In Ringlet you cannot find any hotels. It only one of main agriculture hub in the highlands. The Bertam Valley that located about 5km away is one of the main flower and vegetables producers. Tanah Rata is the place where the main bus station located. Most of the chalets and backpacker's accommodation is located here in and around Tanah Rata.

There are many attraction place at Cameron Highland. One of it is tea plantations. Trip to Cameron Highland is not complete without a trip to the tea plantations. A visit to the factories can learn about the tea making process and also have a sit and enjoy a cup of tea with the beautiful scenery of tea plantation place. The 3 top tea plantations are Boh Tea Plantation, Sungai Palas Tea Plantation and Cameron Valley Tea Plantation.

Boh Tea Plantation
Strawberry farms also one of the attraction place in Cameron Highland. There are a lot strawberry farms and it almost everywhere in Cameron Highland. There you will be offer locally grown strawberries and home made strawberry jams. You also can pluck your own strawberries and charge is according to the weight. The most popular strawberry farms are Big Red Strawberry Farms, Healthy Strawberry Farms, Kasimani's Strawberry Farms, KHM Strawberry Farms and Raju's Hill Strawberry Farm. 

Big Red Strawberry Farms 

Other attraction in Cameron Highland are vegetables farms, museum and galleries, flower nurseries, market, honey bee farms and butterfly centres.
Vegetables Farm


flowers nursery in Cameron Highland

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