After an amazing 51 days in Australia and New Zealand, it was time to move on to some Asian countries. We landed in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, on the 27th and we took a taxi to our hotel. When we arrived, Jodie and her family were waiting for us in the lobby. My mom and Jodie went to N.Practitioner school together and coincidently both came up with the same idea to travel the world. Jodie and her husband, Scott, and their kids Grace,10, Finn,12, and Jack,14, had been travelling the world but the other way. They started off in Europe and are ending in S. America. That night we went out for dinner and everyone sang happy birthday to me. It was a fun night! The next morning we went swimming in the most amazing pool I’ve ever seen. It overlooked the city. Later in the afternoon, we went out for lunch and tried these Chinese doughy buns. They were surprisingly good, but interesting. After lunch, we walked around the city and then we went to a temple and checked out the Twin Towers. We also went to a market and bought over ten different flavours of pop corn including an interesting type called salted egg. It tasted strange. The next day started off with homemade crepes. Then, we went out for lunch with Leelin, from Malaysia, who we met on the Cocora Valley hike back in Columbia. I ordered a prawn noodle dish. It was so good. The next day, we went up the Twin Towers. The Twin Towers are towers that were conjoined by a hallway 170m off the ground. It was so nice and the view was incredible. Then, we took the subway home and had a very traditional Malaysian dish called spaghetti. Spaghetti is pasta with tomato sauce. Just joking we just wanted a break from Malaysian food.The next morning, we had to say goodbye to Jodie and her family. Then we left for…………… Cameron Highlands, known for their strawberries.

Blue Mansion

The afternoon of the blue mansion was really cool. It’s a Chinese mansion.We got to the first room and checked in. We started walking into the second room and went up the stairs to our fancy lunch. The food was really good. The foods that I tried were squid ink risotto, snapper, chicken roulade.

Chinese new yers in Penang

We got to the lanterns at 7:00PM. The temple was called Kek Lok Si. It had beautiful lights. There were 10000 lanterns. We wrote messages on a ribbon and put them on a wishing tree.

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.