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Cameron Highland Sept 03 
A surprise holiday 
My last trip to Cameron Highland was a good many years ago. This one was not really planned. Just a detour on our way to Shah Alam. With a nine days school break, the kids were asking for another holiday. We reckoned a short stopover would make them happy, and busy. At the same time introducing them to their own beautiful Malaysia. It took us twelve hours from Kuala Terengganu via the Genting-Batang Kali Highway, inclusive of the numerous stopovers for prayer, food and restrooms. After the 'must-stop' stopover at Mc Donald Genting Sempah, the kids were excited when we drove up Genting Highway expecting another holiday in Genting. They were there few years ago and now they are taller, the prospect of taking another go at Solero Shot excite them. Last time Amir was too short to qualify. He think he's tall enough now. But they were in for a surprise when we drove pass Gohtong Jaya, northward to Batang Kali, Tapah and up Cameron Highland. It was a long way and nightfall when we checked-in. Nothing much to do except for a steamboat dinner and a short walk in Tanah Rata.
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1.  At a souvenir shop in Tanah Rata 2. Dinner at Heritage 3. At Cactus Farm 4.In Boh Tea Factory

A changing place
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3. First light over the upper ridges. 4. Heritage Hotel 

Once upon a time, not too long ago, had there been environmentalists as there are aplenty now, they would have made noise when the planters cleared the hills for tea planting. Obviously there were none. The environmentalist 'mems' were too busy keeping cool in the weather or keeping their 'tuans'  off the local ladies to think of the environment. After all they have the good 'ol  England to return to after the tour of duty. The extent of jungle clearing must have been massive. It had been scraped barren I'm sure. How else can you explain the missing trees in the plantations. Of course they were not using excavators or large trucks. They had none.  But given the differing dimension of time, the first steam tractor up the track was as much destructive as we would perceive an excavator today. Only the scale of destruction now is much larger.

Cameron is still a cool place, at least after nightfall and up to ten in the morning. Afterward, its fine in just  t-shirts. But the town has changed much. Partly to the worse. Demand for tourism and agro production pushes for some degree of punishing on the environment and the townscape. It is something that can't be avoided even if one wants to, unless we chose to forgo the economy for mother nature. True, both can co-exist. But life is such that nothing is free. Loss of nature is the price we the 'rakyat' pay for the money they, the capitalists make. Inside, I share with this place a feeling I share with Terengganu. Part of me wanting to let the place be as it is, as it always was, the other part wanting to see it grow through the paces like in other places. But whatever your wish and wants, you can't slow down the progress of time. You can only hope that, whoever has a hand in the development has a thought for the environment. I pray that what's done for the worst is the steps to a better future. Nature, I am sure has a way of taking care of itself. Just give it time. A long time.

More buildings were build over the last few years to cater to tourism. If you are not  too busy to notice, you will see abundance of 'faux' Victorian cottages of wrong scales. Was there a decree of some kind in place? No price for guessing. 

We were in Cameron Highland a day before the school holiday. It gives us a chance to see a less busy place before the droves of tourists arrive. And arrives they were. The street through Ringlet up to Tanah Rata and Equatorial Hotel at the peak of Brinchang was an endless stream of cars and buses. TDC marketing of local tourism must have worked well. The number of tourists were much larger that it was in the many years ago. I miss the quiet town. I miss too a number of thing and yet I find some new surprises, some pleasant. Gone were the cool climate. But in its place, there's plenty of strawberry garden (my favourite is one owned by one Haji at the kampong), strawberry jam come with a controlled price tag - RM6, dried flowers are replaced by the silk version (China import), the vegetables come with 'ulats' (proving use of less pesticides, I think), cactus flower  (this is funny - my daughter discovered) was glued on and  honey sold by orang asli seems to come in standardised bottles (yet they claimed its from the wild). Well, so much for commercialism. The most I miss was the manual packing of tea. I had told my kids of the old Indian ladies packing teas I saw last time I was at Boh Factory. I just can't proof my story. Maybe to make up for the loss of the one 'National Geographic' like experience, Boh was kind enough to set up a small information gallery and to allow tour inside. They even have a tea house and sells the exotic teas which we bought and discovered cheaper at Giant
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8 Bharat Tea Plantation 9 Bharat tea house terrace

Bharat Tea Plantation is at the lower elevation. I cant remember this one the last visit. Maybe its new, maybe its renamed, or they were not famous like Boh. The tea house is good, well designed, overlooking the tea valley with a short visitors path through the plantation. They sell souvenirs too. If only the sales people were nicer....

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