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  1. Getting Lost in the BOH Tea Plantation

    Blog: Living the Dream: RTW - 7 July 2011

    I never fancied myself to be a tea drinker, however one of my top destinations in visiting Malaysia had always been the famous rolling tea plantations of the Cameron Highlands.  The same region, also famous for their bountiful strawberry harvest, is a bit of an anomaly in South East Asia for it's abili

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  2. The Great Strawberry Challenge!

    Blog: Living the Dream: RTW - 16 December 2010

    Cameron Highlands, Malaysia is famous for many things: temperate weather due to its elevation, fertile ground for production of tea leaves, honey, and my personal reason for visiting, strawberry fields.

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  3. 6 Things To Do In Malaysia

    Blog: As We Travel - 13 August 2010

    Malaysia is a country where you will find an obvious West /East meeting point – combine the two and you get a crazy mixture – where Dutch clogs go with Indian curry and Portuguese churches.

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  4. Know Your Gestures

    Blog: Desperately Seeking Root Beer - 23 April 2010

    Our van twisted up the mountain through tea plantations on the road to Tanah Rata. It was gray and drizzly, and in the dry warmth of the van I felt sorry for the two soggy backpackers we passed trying to hitch a ride in the opposite direction. They were obviously Westerners: ginormous backpacks, shorts, bandanas, thumbs up in the air trying to flag down a ride as cars hurtled by.

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  5. Melting Pot Malaysia

    Blog: Wanderlust - 2 March 2010

    Cameron Highlands, Malaysia My last two days in Perth came and went as I made my way back up north to Malaysia on February 24. Since I wasn’t planning on traveling through Malaysia on this trip, I was completely clueless as to what the country had to offer.  I flew into the capital Kuala Lumpur and made [...]

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  6. Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

    Blog: Patrick and Katrina do the Globe - 12 November 2009

    Imagine a Boston summer day. Then imagine donning a winter coat and jeans and going for a one mile jog along the Esplanade. Follow that up with pouring a bucket of warm maple syrup over your head and then hopping on a jam packed green line train only to get stuck between Arlington and Copley. That would be about half as hot, sticky, and uncomfortable as walking outside for five minutes in Malaysia. Ok, maybe that is a little bit of an exaggeration, but there is a reason that cool mountain retreats are much appreciated in this country a few degrees north of the equator.

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  7. Tea Time in Cameron Highlands Malaysia

    Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 16 April 2009

    When travelling to Malaysia, one normally doesn’t think of tea plantations and mountain chalets.

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