Cameron Highlands

Malaysia

May 2005
5 days

Gavin wrote:
quite a bit has happened over the last week or so, we left KL although not before finding the largest shopping mall in malaysia (it was massive) which also had a theme park with a mental roller-coaster indoors! and some other insane rides that left both lorraine and i feeling a bit ill.

they also had the largest Imax in SE Asia and we saw this dinosaur movie (wearing manditory silly 3d glasses) - the 3d effects were very good, the movie was ok, bit soppy - not enough dinosaurs eating stuff.

we left KL and went to the Cameron Highlands which was such a change, the weather was more like englad (raining and cold most of the time) - we did a couple of jungle treks including going to a mossy forest (very wet) in which lorraine managed to find the biggest muddiest puddle and fall in it! We also went
on this 2 hour trek through proper jungle following this native bloke with a massive machette - we saw the worlds largest flower there (apparently it blooms for only 5 days at a time so we were very lucky to see it - althouhg i thought it would be bigger!)

Lorraine wrote:
Really enjoyed my 5 star hotel although it has now spoiled me for the rest of the accomodation. Had a good last day in KL where we went to a huge shopping mall and they had a theme park in there including a big roller coaster. So spend a couple of hours running round on all the rides.

Left last Sunday and went to the Cameron Highlands for 3 days. Bit of a contrast as it was very chilly at night. Did a day trip which included visiting some tea plantations and a jungle trek to see the largest flower in the world - it was very tiring. But the flower only is in bloom for 5 days so was lucky to see it, even though my trainers got covered in mud and now absolutely stink(and I fell in some mud - typical me!)