7 days roadtrip around Malaysia (Cameron Highlands part 2)

the next day (5th of January 2008), all of us had to get up early to follow the tour around cameron highlands at 9AM..we were brought to the BOH tea plantation, bee farm, strawberry farm and butterfly&reptile farm, all for RM17..all of us had mild diarrhoea due to the high intake of fruits and vegetables yest nite :P

guy in orange is our tour guide, thiru..cool man..looking forward to seeing him next time

i forgot which one we went to first so ill just do it randomly..anyway, all of us woke up late (biasa la tu) didnt have breakfast so jus bought bread..we rushed to the bus station to board d local bus to go on the tour..starting off is the BOH plantation..the road was super narrow and just imagine the lorong belakang kinda road which only 1 car can move at a time, BUT now, it is TWO cars moving at once in different directions! one wrong turn and the bus goes rolling down the tea plantation hills..scary ride but the drivers here are professionals ;)
this is what BOH plantation looks like...

anyway, we were brought into the factory to see how tea leaves are being processed and also to the souvenir shop where there were wide ranges of tea of green to normal to black tea..nobody bought anything cause mainly we were on a budget trip and we still have 5 more days of travellin to do! scared pecah la d tea package..

next is the bee farm, nothing much jus well, bees :)

bee's creep...

next is the strawberry farm..we could have gone on a strawberry-plucking-spree but we had to pay BUT u can LOOK at the strawberries for free! ahhh..so y waste money? :D hahah not say we lurve picking strawberry's..we love eating it though :)

wai hong picking up a small strawberry on the floor..

lastly, we were brought to the butterfly and reptile farm..haha we were showed various insects such as this green thingie which looks like a grasshopper (makes a high pitch sound when touched)

the rhino beetles,

me with a rhino beetle..

and the scorpions

justin looking proud with a scorpion on his shirt and sin loong scared with the scorpion at hand

the 1000year old tortoise..

darren and his tortoise..dan heavy OKAY!

now, for the finale, the butterflies! haha do you know that they transport butterflies in papers folded nicely with the butterfly inside? and when they are freed from their paper prison, they will not take flight immediately..need some sunshine then only they will start to fly..hahah like solar powered only me holding a Raja Brooke butterfly which i opened from the paper :)

we even found a weird looking plant like bob marley's hair when it's short ;) tadaa!

anyway, that was the end of our short and nice tour around cameron highlands..everyone had fun thx to our funny and witty tour guide..all of us regretted not stayin and relaxing in cameron cause the weather there was cooling and nice :( we then boarded the 2pm bus and headed straight to ipoh!

*ipoh mali, ipoh ipoh mali*