Cameron Highlands Trip Updated

Ok.. now I can story about this Cameron trip...

Alkisahnya, atok and nenek Rayyan & Rayhana ni bersama-sama dengan bakal mertua auntie si Rayyan & Rayhana ni nak plan pergi holiday kat memana la... tambahan pulak bakal adik ipar auntie Rayyan & Rayhana ni baru habis SPM, so nak pergi holiday la 2 big families ni... memandangkan salah satu favorite destination choice to go for a holiday was Cameron Highlands, so I was in charged to book 2 units of the 3-bedroom apartment under RCI, which was the Greenhill Resort at Tanah Rata. They had a special promotion for RCI members (my mom is an RCI member through Tanco). The rate was something like RM500 for two units of the 3-bedroom apartment for the whole week! Gilababs murah! Sampai babs pun tak gila macam tu! :)

RCI gave us 3 tentative weeks where they still have vacancy for 2 units. So I gave the dates to both heads of the families to choose which one suits them. They decided on one date.

Last minute, Rayyan & Rayhana punya auntie punya bakal mertua and their whole family tiba2 cannot make it. Ada important business meeting that the head of that family had to attend to. So diorang semua tak jadi pergi except Rayyan & Rayhana punya bakal uncle.

So off we went in two cars. I brought mine, where me, Ja, Rayhana and Rani the maid were in it. Rayyan as usual would go with his Atok & Nenek, his auntie, and his bakal uncle in another car.

We went all the way to Simpang Pulai and came down to Tanah Rata from the north. The roads were not as winding but lama gila nak sampai.. close to 4 hours.

At last sampaila kat Greenhill Resort, Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands... nak dijadikan cerita, there were no units at the ground floor, or the first floor so we had to take the 2nd floor units. Kesianla Atok & Nenek Rayyan & Rayhana tu... since we have one extra unit, me, Ja, Rayyan, Rayhana and Rayyan & Rayhana's bakal uncle took one unit, and Atok, Nenek, bibik and Felishia took up the next unit. We've been to Green Hill Resort before when we had a company trip for all the staff and their family.. we paid dirt cheap macam ni jugak.. at that time we took 3 units... but not as cheap as this time.. mana nak dapat RM500 for 2 units for the whole week?? That's the cheapest dirt you can ever find! hehehe


We arrived around 3 pm like that. Lepas makan, we wanted to go out see whatever we wanna do. First up, strawberries!! Masa on the way, since we were coming from the north, we drove pass all of Cameron Highlands' attractions. We noticed some cool strawberry farms.. we didn't wanna go to the Kasimanis or whatever farm yang glamer2 sangat tu.. overrated. So we went to this HUGE farm... kalau nak masuk kena bayar sorang RM20, pastu isi strawberry sampai setengah kilo. Kalau tak nak beli setengah kilo sorang takleh masuk.

So all of us went in la.. bayarla dalam ntah berapa ringgit ntah for everyone kat Indons yang jaga counter tu.... Banglas yang jaga dalam farm tu pulak suruh kitorang jalan sampai hujung dunia baru boleh petik.. macam2 la diorang cakap.. yang dekat2 tu semua baru letak ubatla, rumput baru kena racun la etc...


Dah lepas petik semua jalanla keluar balik.. we got lots of strawberries.. cenonet je sume... some were sweet, most were not. So pastu balikla apartment balik.. that's the agenda for the day...

Besoknya pulak we have set ourselves to go to BOH at Sg Palas. The last time I went there was like 7 years ago... how things have changed.. it's a really cool place with the viewpoint siap boleh minum2 teh while eating scones, etc... cool.. dulu takde...

One thing yang sama... jalan nak sampai kat BOH Sg Palas estet tu... nauzubillah! We were stuck close to 1 hour sebab kereta tak boleh bergerak at 3-5 spots on that narrow and winding road leading to that place. Reason? 2 way traffic nak lalu jalan sejengkal tu... dengan basnya lorinya.. GILA!!! They should have only way traffic alternately every 15 or 30 minutes...

Dah sampai kat parking area tu kena jalan kaki pulak about 200m naik atas... it was cool walking kat situ.. breezy and not hot! Dalam tengah jalan-jalan tu adala pulak minah kampung sorang ni nak suruh ambik gambar dia... hahahaha...

Dah sampai atas, we went straight to the factory first... it was Rayyan's first time.. so he was somewhat excited... 'coz before this I already brought him to the Beryl's chocolate factory in Seri Kembangan...

Lepas keluar the factory we went straight to BOH's visitors' center... they really made this place nice.. dulu takde... I wish I had more time alone sipping tea duduk kat anjung tu... nice....


We had scones, sandwiched, etc.. Rayyan had his usual mushroom soup... but they are all OVERPRICED!! Macam makan kat Europe la pulak...


While the rest were still eating I brought Rayyan down to the tea trees... showed him the tea leaves and got him pluck some leaves to give to his teachers... Gambar bunga kat bawah tu is bunga pokok teh... I never knew pokok teh ada bunga... hehehe


Lepas gi BOH ni we went to my mom;s favorite strawberry farm... Rajoo's Strawberry Farm. The last we came Mr Rajoo himself gave my mom 3 long bags (like you see in the 2nd set of pictures above) of strawberry plants and we brought them home! This time the Rajoo couple still remembered my mom, but this time bawak cucu-cucu and menantu and bakal menantu pulak... hehehe

The Rajoos are honest and murah sangat rezeki diorang... tak berkira sangat... when we came, they provide us with lots of strawberries.... tabur icing sugar, letak whipped cream, etc... suruh semuorang yang datang kat tempat dia tu makan... of course we got extra.. hehe...

We only stayed in Cameron for 3 days/ 2 nights, although the rate we paid was for the whole week. But RM500 for 2 nights for 2 units of 3-bedroom apartment in Cameron Highlands is still cheap.

On the way back, we followed the fastest way down... through Tapah... nak sampai Tapah tu yang seksa.. jalan berpusing-pusing... sampai driver pun macam nak muntah... tapi control macholaa.. but the maid muntah 2 kali... majikan dia pun paksa berenti kereta sampai 2 kali.. sebab dia pun nak muntah... hehe...

So when are we going to Cameron Highlands again? Hmm.... definitely not within these 5 years kot... hahaha