Wednesday 4th March

Got up early and called a taxi to the airport at six forty five. We caught a flight back down to Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) and picked up a car. We then drove three hours up to Cameron Highlands, up in the mountains where the rich go in the summer to escape the city heat. It was like driving into the highlands in Scotland, very green and defiantly a few degrees cooler along small winding roads. It was nice to escape the humidity. We found a hotel quite easily, and the heavens opened, it poured with rain all evening and into the night, it was the first night we slept without a ceiling fan or air-con since leaving the UK!
We had a steam boat for dinner which is very popular here they are like fondue, where you cook the raw ingredients at the table.

Thursday 5th March

Cameron Highlands is a big growing area for Malaysia, the main crops are tea, strawberry's, Watercress and veg. They also grow a lot of flowers and produce honey. We went along to a tea plantation, the bushes stretched as far as the eye could see and we tried the Cameron tea at the hill side restaurant. The tea bushes look sculptured on the hill sides very neat and in rows.
At lunch time we stopped by a lake and had coffee, the lake water was a nice reddy brown colour because of all the rain in the night. Cameron Highlands is the place where Jim Thompson, whose house we visited in Bangkok, mysteriously disappeared whilst on holiday, without a trace in 1967.