Day 1 (Singapore - Cameron Highlands)
We drove up from Singapore, via the Tuas link. It was quite a drive. We started off at around 645am, and reached Century Pines at Cameron Highlands at 3pm plus. We took the Simpang Pulai exit instead of the Tapah exit. Apparently there was a Simpang Pulai RSA before the exit, where there is a petrol kiosk. As we were not too sure, we pumped gas at Tapah RSA instead, which is 1 RSA ahead.
The drive up was quite long. But we did expect around 8 hours, which turned out to be 8 hours including lunch time. So that was pretty good. We had lunch at Klang, Bak Kut Teh. It was not really fantastic, but at least some other places we have not tried before. We fully relied on the GPS to locate this lunch location. GPS is quite useful sometimes.
The weather was cool, perfect for steam boat, overlooking the watercress farm.
Day 2 (Cameron Highlands)
Breakfast was included. It has quite a decent variety of food, consisting fried noodles, fried rice, porridge, cereals to bread for staples. And many more others.
We visited Cactus Valley and Big Red Strawberry farm. It claims to have about 200 parking spaces. But it is a steep way upwards, with about 10 lots at each level. Then we had the Strawberry shake, Strawberry yogurt/lassi, Strawberry juice and Strawberry sundae at the cafe near the top. It was quite a nice walk up. Weather was cool, and lots of plants, vegetables, flowers, strawberrry plants, tomatoes along the way up.
Next, we went to the Boh Tea Plantation at the Sungei Palas.
The way there was indeed a one lane road mostly, except at some turnings. So driving there was a little bit troublesome but aint difficult. It was really pretty as what I have seen in pictures. But too bad, they do not serve meals there. They only serve tea and cakes. We visited the tea factory too, since it was free admission, but there was not too much about it. There were only a couple of machine, and a couple of boards that explains the 5 steps to tea-making.
Then we were hunting for a lunch location, which we finally settled outside Kea Farm at this Strawberry view chinese makan place.
After lunch, we turned in the same road, and visited the Rose Centre. It was a long walk upwards. But pretty nice. Lots of flowers, and plants to see, and a view down the valley when you are the top.
The rest of the day we hopped from bee farm to night market to multicrops farm, and lastly dinner at yoo foo restoran at Brinchang Town. The food was pretty nice. It is basically cooked chinese dishes and steam boat served with white rice.
Day 3 (Cameron Highlands - Genting Highlands)
Today we woke up wanting to go to Ipoh, but they all decided to go to Genting Highlands instead.
We drove down to Ringlet, Lakehouse. LakeHouse is really quite pretty. But it overlooks the lake which is a patch of brown muddy water.
Next, we stopped by at the Cameron Tea Valley. It is quite pretty from the cafe. The view is quite nice, rolling hills with tea plants. Then we checked-out and headed for more vegetables at Kea Farm before departing Cameron Highlands.
Vegetables was cheap. It was like 12 corn for 10RM, or 8 packs of vegetables for 10RM. One grilled corn was about 3.5RM.
Then we went down the hill via the Kg. Raja and headed to Genting Highlands, solely relying on the GPS. Think we reached around 5pm plus.
Day 4 (Genting Highlands - Singapore)
We checked out at 12noon. Then drove out for lunch. Think we started on the roads again around 2pm.
We had a simple fishball/yong tau fu dinner at Yong Peng.
Finally we reached the Tuas checkpoint around 820pm.
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