The Cameron Highlands

The Cameron Highlands was the best place to get away from the freakin' hot climate at Malaysia's beaches with far over 35 degrees and a humidity which was not human at all. We spent the next nights on 1600 meters with a temperature of some 10 to 15 degrees at night. That gave me reason to finally try my new sleeping bag and hey, it is a great one. And guess the colors: It is black and, jep, correct, YELLOW :) The Highlands were not only cool but at the same time very beautiful. The first night we watched the game Germany - Italy and stayed up until six in the morning. Lets not talk about it any more...So we slept in the next day and in the afternoon we made our way to the nearest highest summet on 2031 meters. The trek led us once again through jungle looking forests (even though the locals call it Mountane Forest) luckily without any leeches which we were to meet some other place in Malaysia. Arriving on the top we had to find a way home and I told Uli: "Hey, don't worry, somebody will take us...Lets just hitchhike once again." There was exactly one car at the top. The family from Kuala Lumpur was really nice and rich and we could enjoy a 12 kilometer lift home in a car with air con and leather seats. We made some stops to take great pictures of the tea plantations, designing most of the mountains surfaces. We spent most of the nights in our great Guesthouse with a couple of beers. For the next day we booked a half-day excursion to have a look at a Boh Tea Factory, a butterfly garden with all sorts of colorful butterflies (I remember my brother tearing them appart when he was younger), a honey-bee farm, and a temple. The tea plantation was great, it is just a nice view on those small tea trees and quite interesting how they make tea out of it. Boh Tea produces four million kilograms tea each year equaling 5.5 million tea cups a day - unbelievable. The temple was not to great - Thailand definately has the most precious ones. Right in front of the temple of a line of Chinese people and we first thought they would be waiting to get into the temple. Luckily not - they were waiting to see that one holy priest telling them what they were suffering from and curing them at the same time....strange, strange....At Mr. Boh Tea's souvenir shop Uli and I bought some Teacino with vanilla taste and enjoyed that the next weeks with our breakfast. Try it, if you can get it. In the afternoon we did a short trek with two British girls (sometimes I think the British don't like their country because there are tons of them travelling South East Asia :) The next day we left for paradise...