On the Raya holidays, Nicole’s family decided to hitch me up to the Highlands, not the one with a casino, but one with a whole load of tea, strawberries and pretty flowers. Funny as it seems, the both of us love the silent countryside compared to the busy city. Perhaps this is just us aging.

Cameron Highland is a beautiful place, but with it being very much commercialized, the traffic and prices of he hotels are skyrocketing. A 4km stretch from Brinchang to the mountain’s peak (Equatorial Hotel), took us an hour. Blurgh, I am rather thrown off by the traffic. Thank you very much for the relaxing countryside yes?

The both of us agreed to get our arses up really early in the morning to enjoy the highland. We lunged the camera and headed up the BOH Tea Farm (highest peak). The road up was narrow and impossible for a bus to go through, but what surprised me was the way nature unfold with its biggest lamp, the Sun.

Sunrise, something that we’ve never done (we both are late birds), we got up to the best spot and started snapping away with her Canon 500D. And this is nature at her best.

Ewww, orange teeth… Mr. Sun did that to me.

As the morning grew, we drove up, trying to get to the peak of the mountain. Whilst doing so, we approach a camp site, and it was rather amusing to see a family camping out there, well nothing amusing about a family camping, but the way their tent was setup reveals that they have been there for more than a week.

They actually built a full sized kitchen, toilet, dining and bedrooms. Drying clothing is rather difficult up in the highlands as it is extremely humid and sunlight is always at its minimum, these guys thought of a way to dry their clothes, they started they car, lifted its hood and hung their clothing over the engine. Innovation!

Thats the Toilet

I am beginning to fall in love with Malaysia again.