We went for a family trip to Cameron Highlands for a 3D2N stay (5th-7th Feb) with Mah-mah, Yeh-yeh, Koo-koo, Koo-jeong and Hayley jie-jie over the long weekend. We started our journey on Sunday morning and the eight of us went in two cars. We headed to Ipoh for breakfast as planned and packed an assortment of Ipoh goodies up the hill resort for lunch.
Traffic was good all along the way until the final 6km of our journey. Inching uphill at snail's pace, it took us about 1.5 hours to move 6km to get to the Equatorial Hotel. Traffic jams and crowded places aside, the trip was overall good and enjoyable. Here are the highlights of the trip...
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| Had "donkey noodles" (hor hee) for breakfast in Ipoh... I call it the donkey noodle because "hor hee" sounds like a donkey's bray haw-hee-haw-hee-haw when it is repeated multiple times haha! |
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| Checked-in to our Vacation Club's 2-room apartment at the Equatorial Hotel where we had our lunch of Foh San dimsum, egg tarts, JJ swissrolls and Pusing rice dumplings ... all tapau-ed from Ipoh |
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| While the rest of them stayed at the apartment (which could only accommodate 4), daddy, mummy and I stayed at the newly refurbished hotel room :p |
The traffic there was so bad that we didn't dare to drive anywhere. Luckily the Kea Farm was just a 5-minute walk from the hotel. We even had our dinner in a restaurant just within the hotel compound.
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| Checking out some of the stuff at a stall in the Kea Farm market |
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| A strawberry popsicle treat |
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| At the main entrance of the hotel lobby, ready to go for dinner. The weather was cool and just nice. |
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| Dinner time... steamboat and bak-kut-teh to warm us up |
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| Day 2 - Family breakfast at a coffeeshop in Brinchang |
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| Some of the food that we had |
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| We visited the Smokehouse... but they didn't welcome non-patrons so we just "lepak-ed" outside |
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| Hayley jie-jie and I were fascinated by something on the wooden bench there... |
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| A newly metamorphosized butterfly! |
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| At the park in Tanah Rata |
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| Sitting on a giant corn! |
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| Got playground, will smile :) We spent about an hour here. It was scorching hot and some of us got sun-burned. |
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| From playground to tea plantation... very scenic! (Bharat tea plantation) |
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| Let's go down for a tea-plantation walk! |
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| Daddy and I walked down to explore... and I asked "Is this a giant maze?" Hahaha! |
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| Happy family :) |
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| Tea-time! (at the Bharat Tea House) |
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| More snacks... yummylicious strawberry waffle with vanilla ice-cream at Glory 78 |
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| Mummy, look! I see little fishes in the little pond |
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| At the children's playground in Strawberry Park Resort |
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| Colourful cacti at Cactus Point (a flower and cactus nursery) |
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| Thorny beauties... different types of cacti all planted in one pot |
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| Rows and rows of pretty flowers in the nursery |
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| Day 3 - Walking on the deserted street of Kea Farm. Unfortunately, at almost 8am, the stalls were not opened yet. The early bird had nothing to catch! :( |
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| We left CH soon after the ladies' morning marketing in Kea Farm. Stopped at the Iskandar Waterfalls on our way down to Tapah. |
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| Lunch at Bidor before heading home to PJ... I had wantan mee (my favourite) as usual. |
