After the heat and hustle of KL we decided to head for the Cameron Highlands, a region high up in mountains. The bus trip was interesting, a surprising amount of Westerners traveling with their kids (all with mad names like Everest and Calypso, damn hippies) and unsurprisingly one of the kids spewed chocolate ice-cream all over his dad due to the bus bouncing over the twisting mountain roads.

We stayed in a really nice place called Father's Guest House and our rrom had an amazing view out over the hills and valleys around the town. The air was blissfully cool after KL although we did have to put up with a lot of rain, but what are you going to do? When the rain did break we went on a tour of some of the tea plantations and flower and buterfly farms that are dotted through out the hills. The Boh Tea plantation was great as we got to see the tea pickers selecting the best tea leaves – the Boh Selectas! Ho ho… I also got to hold some Leaf frogs and geckos in the Butterfly farm, which were not as slimey as I thought they might be. It's amazing how a frog can evolve to look like a leaf, nature is weird!

We really loved the place and got to meet some nice people – I talked to a guy called Taj from Canada who had been coming to the Camerons for about 15 years, probably to smuggle drugs out (which he told me he'ld been caught doing before and subsequently barred from the US as an "undesirable alien"). Elaine wonders how I get to talk to these people…

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