We drove by bus to Cameron Highlands.
The area was discovered by Sir William Cameron in 1885. In the highlands are small towns consisting of people working on the many farms.
It was lovely weather in the morning.
During the first hours of the day we had blue sky and the weather was clear, but it was raining during the afternoons and nights and it was much colder than we were used to, max 20 degrees at day and colder during the night.
Carina did not feel up to go on a tour so Markus went with this jeep on a half day tour to see the surrounding tea plantations.
This is a picture from the tea factory. The middle part of the opposite hill is for growing tea.
This was the first stop of the tour. The view was amazing. Tea everywhere!
More tea.
And more tea. A bit closer this time!
The workers of the tea plantation come mostly from Indonesia, our guide told us. They live next to the tea factory and get accommodation for free. Some of them had their families with them and most of them send part of their salary back home to the ones who needs it the most.
After the first stop at the view point we drove up the hill to see a cloud forest. Because of the humidity in this area, all the trees have somekind of moss growing on the trunks and branches.
In the forest we saw different kind of plants, like these meat eating plants, or monkey cups as they are also called.
They came in different colours and sizes.
The tour was nice way to spend a day. After the tea plantation, cloud forest and the tea factory we went to see butterfly/snakefarm and also stopped at a strawberry field, which wasn't that special.
After staying here a couple of nights we went on to George Town.
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