Cameron Highlands Tea

Trip Start Nov 05, 2007

Trip End Jun 22, 2008

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Flag of Malaysia Tanah Rata, Malaysia
Thursday, April 24, 2008

It was time to move to a cooler climate, so we read in the book about the Cameron Highlands in the center of the country. A 5 1/2 hour bus trip changed the temp from about 85 to 70 degrees. We found a nice little inn on the hill over looking the town of Tanah Rata.

The Highlands were named after William Cameron, a British colonial government surveyor who discovered the plateau during a mapping expedition in 1885. The fame of Cameron Highlands then grew during the colonial era when British planters realised the potential of its fertile mountain slopes for growing tea, then a prized commodity.
The Cameron Highlands are still home to many tea plantations, being Malaysia's largest tea-producing region.

We went on some tours of the area which included: two tea plantations, butterfly and bee farm, stawberry farm and flower plantation. It was like being in England, each day we had tea and scones!.

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Darcy at the Plantation	Tea as Far as the Eye Can See	Tea Hills	Darcy -Tea & Scones
Bring tea up for pick-up	Darcy in the Tea!	In the Tea Valley	Workers in the Tea Fields
Worker Picking Tea	Flower Garden	Orange Flowers	Butterfly on Green Leaf
Close-up View of Large Butterfly	Bill: you said you could fly better than me!	Butterfly Feeding	Workers Opening up the Hive
Inside the Hive	Honey!	Bees, Bees, Bees	Keep Calm!
Bees Going in the Hive	LMG and the Rino Beetle