Spent 4 nights in Tanah Rata - the main city in the Cameron Highlands area of Malaysia. CH is somewhere around 6 or 8k feet above sea level and is much cooler - it was a welcome relief from the heat and a beautiful area. There are some muddy trekking trails in the area so I spent a couple of days back in my element :) Apparently the climate is good for growing tea, the area tea plantations were quite lovely and kind of surreal - they look like a funky carpet or something laying on the hillsides.
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| Beautiful Cameron Highlands |
I'm currently in Penang (arrived late yesterday) and am finding it quite interesting and full of character. Much of today was chewed up by a long walk to the Thai embassy in round 2 of an attempt to obtain a 60 day visa, I have to go back tomorrow to pick it up - hopefully all is well.
Penang is known for it's food and I have found some delicious food here - but then it's been pretty amazing all along since leaving Australia. I'm staying in the Georgetown area which is a world heritage site and clearly has a lot of history (something I'm looking forward to learning about). There is a National Park here (Penang is an island) and lots of other interesting looking things to explore in the area so I think I'll be spending several days here before moving on to perhaps Langkawi? or another island in the area.
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| This meal looks like it would eat you back! |
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