Cameron highlands – by Amelie

Cameron Highlands is known for their strawberries and tea plantations. We were there for only 3 nights, so we could only do a certain amount of things. When we first arrived, our parents went out to book a tour. When they got back, we all headed out for a nice supper. We had a very traditional meal called a “steamboat”, which is a small oven on your table and you can stove with boiling soup. You can cook all sorts of things on your own, we had sea food, chicken and noodles. The next morning we had a morning tour so we got up at 6:30 and had Indian pancakes for breakfast. We started of the tour with a trip to the tea fields, where we learnt about the process of picking the tea leaves off the trees.. Next we went into the jungle and went for a 45 minute hike and learnt about the different plants. After that we went to the tea factory where we had tea and strawberry tarts. We also bought ice tea and green tea latte. We went into the factory and watched them roll out the tea, dry it and shred it. That after noon, we went to the strawberry farm and they had a lot of different things to eat that involved strawberries (some didn’t even have strawberries in it). We got a strawberry milkshake, and we started walking back to the hotel and we saw some very nice flowers and plants. The next morning, we had more pancakes at the same place and started off the day with a hike. We had already started the hike when we realized we did not have bug spray, so my mom ran back to the hotel and grabbed it. We hiked up the mountain and it was quite steep but we made it to the top. We were at the top for about an hour before we headed back down another way. Going down was more fun and longer than coming up, because it was steep and it was like rock climbing. There were ropes you had to hold on to to stay alive. We arrived at a little village at the end of the hike and went to the tea house where we had cake and ice cream. On our way home we hitch hiked in the back of a truck! That day we did 23000 steps! The next a day, we had to leave so we had pancakes AGAIN and then we headed to Penang.