Cameron Highlands Tour

While in the Cameron Highlands we decided to take a "leisure tour" through the country side. This was actually the tour's name and along with 6 other people, we hopped in a van and headed to our first location, a rose farm. Despite this being a "leisure tour," our tour guide made it highly apparent that this was to be a precise, to the minute, scratch that- to the second tour. If you were gandering at a rose to long and a second too late, then you  were unapologetically left behind, as two stragglers in our group repeatedly found out. This became quite the joke and entertained us through a possibly boring tour otherwise, and we learned a very valuable lesson, never ever ever be late with an Indian tour guide.

 

Anyways, after the rose farm tour we were dropped off at a strawberry farm and looked at strawberry for two seconds and then raced in line for a strawberry milkshake and strawberry cheesecake (the milkshake is highly recommended!)

After the strawberry farm, it was off to a honey bee farm and then the "BOH" tea plantation- the pictures that look like a green carpet over the land are actually black tea. We were proper British, or in this case Scottish (BOH was started by a Scot in the 1800's) and drank cups of tea while gazing absentmindedly at the plantation before us.

 

We were then carted onto our final destination, a butterfly farm. Brian held a surprisingly cute gecko while our guide explained to out about the 276 species of snakes that live in Malaysia, 5 being deadly and even a deadly centipede. After hearing this news and looking at too many snakes, tarantulas, and scorpions that oddly found their way into the butterfly farm, we reconsidered trekking through the Cameron Highlands on our own and headed for some civilization instead.