The hill station in the Cameron Highlands is one of Malaysia's most famous and is renowned for its tea plantations and strawberry farms. Must be the English influence as it was established by British surveyor William Cameron in 1885...

One of the best ways to see all it has to offer in a short space of time is to take a plantation tour, which takes you to a rose garden, complete with peculiar statues of things like Snow White and the old lady who lived in a shoe?! We then went to a tea plantation and saw the crop being processed, then drank some of the fine leaves as we had a nice afternoon tea on the terrace overlooking the plantations (so English!). There was an american guy with us who had never had a cup of tea before so we introduced him to the fine English beverage, and there's probably not a better place to try it than straight out of the fields! We also went to a bee farm and tasted the local honey, a butterfly house with seriously the largest butterflies I've ever seen, and it did slightly freak me out, and then finally a strawberry farm. Didn't spend too long there as to be fair I've seen my fair share of strawberries, having worked as a strawberry picker when I was a mere student. It was one for the basket and one for my tummy...and funnily enough I'm not so keen on strawberries any more!

Dinner in the highlands was an interesting experience. We had something called steamboat, which is bascially where a large bowl is placed in the middle of your table containing either chicken broth, tom yam soup (spicy) or half and half and then a whole selection of different vegatables, meat and fish. You just drop each thing into the boiling bowl to cook for a few minutes and then eat it all up. We had all sorts of food in it, including chicken, squid, prawns, mussels, crab sticks, fish balls, tofu, noodles, fish fillets, eggs and jellyfish - yes I really did eat jellyfish! It just tastes a bit like squid but slightly fishier...not something I think I'd choose to order on a menu but tasted ok in with everything else!