Trip to Cameron Highlands

 

 

 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.