Green View Garden
House of Lavender
Avant Chocolate
Lavender Garden
Cameron Valley Tea Plantation
Big Red Strawberry Farm
Cactus Point
It was a school holiday week, for 1 week right after the school
exam. It was just the right time for a break after all the pressure we both
endured. From Mon – Wed, Emeryn attended daycare for only the morning session.
In the afternoon, Ah Ma came and picked Emeryn from daycare. Though it was the
school holiday, the BM & Science tuitions were ongoing. On Wed afternoon,
daddy brought Emeryn out for a movie. Instead of watching some kiddo movie,
Emeryn wanted to watch The Mermaid and she insisted daddy to bring along either
Joel or Joey. At the end Joey joined them for movie. Daddy dropped Emeryn to
mummy after mummy off from work.
The next morning, Wed we woke up at 6am+ as we make our journey to
Cameron Highlands for a 2 days 1 nite stay. Mummy picked up her friend who is
joining us at 8am and off we went on with our journey. We stopped for breakfast
Sin Yoon Loong kopitiam before continuing our journey uphill. Emeryn ordered
fried koay teow and she happily finished it clean. Overall the food there was
very tasty. After filling up our tummies, we continue with our journey. After
driving for an hour or so, we reached our first destination, Avant Chocolate.
This place sells chocolate originated from Cameron itself. The same place here
hosts another 2 beautiful places Green View Garden and House of Lavender. We
visited the small hydroponic plantation filled with flowers and plants before
walking over to House of Lavender. These places were beautifully landscaped
with bright colors architure and even a windmill, and a small lavender farm. We
took many photos before moving to our next destination.
We drove for at least 30mins before reaching our second destination,
the Lavender Garden. As soon as we stepped in, we were greeted by the huge
blanket of lavender. This place is heavily decorated with cute decorative item.
Again we took lots of photo. The weather was very sunny and we sweated so
badly. We then drove towards our hotel, Copthorne Cameron Highlands. Before
checking in, we stopped for our late lunch at the stretch of eateries outside
the hotel. After check in, we rested for near to two hours before deciding to
drive to Brinchang night market. We were stuck in a jam for 50mins before mummy
got really fed up and make a u-turn back. All the cars were barely move and it
was bumper to bumper. Perhaps it wasn’t a good choice to visit Cameron during
the school holiday. On our way back to hotel, we dropped by at Kea Farm and had
a leisure stroll as most of the stalls were already close for the day. Only
handful stalls were still open. We had some light snack before heading back to
hotel. We had our dinner at a Chinese restaurant but unfortunately we couldn’t
finish our dinner as we had over ordered. We were definitely too full after the
dinner that we went for a walk outside the hotel, enjoying the night cooling
breeze. It was 17 degree that nite. After our outdoor walk, we went to the
hotel lobby where there were some kid’s activities and an open lounge. We
headed back to our room not long after that to get a good sleep before our next
day itinerary.
The next morning, we got off from the hotel at 8am and make our way
to Cameron Valley Tea House. On our way there, we stopped for breakfast at a
random restaurant. We had the famous Malaysian breakfast, roti telur, murtabak
and Emeryn had a western breakfast. Upon reaching the tea valley, we walked
straight to the plantation to enjoy a nearer view. The view was so serene even
though the sun was shining on us. Our next highlight was the Big Red Strawberry
Farm. After navigating our way using waze, we finally reach our destination. We
paid RM25 for 500g of self-pluck strawberries, an activity which Emeryn was
looking forward from day 1. We selected those big and red strawberries to be
plucked, hopefully it would be sweeter. This strawberry farm was very organized
in term of their plantation structure, the cleanliness, a quite huge selection
to pick from and best of all a place of us to sit back and relax while enjoying
our own harvest of the day. We ticked our last destination by stopping at
Cactus Point where we were amazed by the gigantic size of cactus. We bought 4
cactus plants and Emeryn requested for the “grass head”. After the quick
stopover, we went back to the hotel for quick refreshment before checking out.
We stopped for our lunch on our way downhill. After lunch we headed to Ipoh
where we hang out for a short while at Aeon Jusco before driving back to
Penang.
Mummy had a slight headache throughout the whole drive back to
Penang and yet we still managed to pull over for dinner before sending mummy’s
friend home. We then headed home straight.
