Selamat Hari Raya and Happy Merdeka Day!
Somewhat late in my greetings coz been busy! Family decided to travel to Raub and visit relatives. The traffic was light as most balik kampung rush already done on Sat or Sun.
Traveling in Pahang, there is still much virgin forest and really enjoyed the scenery. Baby was excited for another excursion to take in new sights and adventure in discovery. He just recently learned how to walk unassisted, so to encourage him more, outings like this would spur him to explore more while doing more walks to strengthen his muscles.
Raub is not such a small town. The township is spread out a bit and boast several supermarkets. Our trip here visiting the relatives usually ended up with makan-makan! Nothing like a happy meal to foster better family relationship.
While travelling to Raub, I was thinking about the new route from Kuala Lipis which is near to Raub, that would take you to Cameron Highlands. Already there is narrow winding route from Raub to Fraser's Hill, so I wonder about that road leading to CH from here.
Well, won't be exploring about that route for now.
Just enjoying my stay here in an auntie's house which she also runs as a budget guesthouse for travelling salesman who need a place to bunk in for their business travel.
Nice to take break from my work and have a good bonding time with wife and baby!
So a belated Hari Raya and Happy Merdeka day!

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Night market is still in Brinchang. Although earlier this year there was talk by the Majlis of Cameron Highlands to shift the night market to Tanah Rata, in the end I suppose the night market traders were none too pleased. Perhaps the Tanah Rata location was not good enough. It was to be behind the food court at the foot of the hill where the Majlis office building was located. It didn't look big enough from what I see. So in the end the Brinchang night market still remained. That meant on super peak period it is best to avoid the Simpang Pulai way in as you would be caught in a massive traffic jam.
Frankly speaking, even for me, a tourist, I would prefer it in Brinchang. This was where it started, so it should be maintained here. Also most people would know it here so Brinchang night market is still best as is.

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BOH Tea Plantation Sg Palas is one the more popular stop for many tourist. Although it is not one of the easier location to travel as one will have to negotiate the narrow winding road and give way when there is oncoming traffic.
Despite having been there so many times, one still never tires of the soothing greenery of the tea plantation. The renovated tea centre makes very modern compare to previous wooden tea shop structure.
It is a draw many tourist bringing along their DSLR and snapping away at the scenery and self potrait photos.
When we left at the closing time of 5pm many are still making their way to the Sg Palas Boh Tea Plantation. They should have done their research or even read the old signage, coz they are going to be dissappointed when the security guard refuse them entry and turn them back at the plantation gate.
For us, it was time to say sayonara to Boh Sg Palas Tea Plantation and head on elsewhere.

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Just checked in Greenhill Apartment today. With loads of things to transfer from the car, everbody taking a relaxing break watching Astro AXN channel. Mind you 3rd floor and half the kitchen stuff and luggage and baby stuffs then three flight of stairs...
Ye, ye, good exercise. But got more to go in Cameron Highlands.
Sky kinda cloudy and threatening rain. That kinda put a hold on some of our outdoor activities. BOH tea plantation, no rain please!
Meanwhile better get a moving from Greenhill Apartments here!

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Waking up in Cameron Highlands. Temperature in the morn about 23.4 C in the hotel room according to my Casio watch.
Still felt very cold here in Heritage Hotel. Now planning for breakfast coz my dad's Heritage Vacation club don't have breakfast included. I think we will go Uncle Chow for breakfast coz my family has not tried it yet.
As for baby? Will let him sleep with uncle and auntie coz their paid room came with breakfast and they can take care sleeping baby while we quickly take our breakfast.
Good to be up in Cameron Highlands to cool off from KL heat. Kinda off peak this weekend probably due to Ramadhan fasting month.
So go for some chow chow now!

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Refreshing change instead of Cameron Highlands, made a trip to Genting Highlands instead. Hold up in Awana Genting Highlands for the night and next day Genting View Resort coz my church having a camp over there. Good to stay a day earlier and relax and enjoy a simple break.
Coz when the church camp runs is going to be a heady day of lessons and of course fun games and worship session.
I think I'm going to be late but no hurry. Let the day take care of itself. After all Jesus did say not to worry too much about tomorrow for today already have enough of its trouble. So take it as it comes.
For now I enjoy my buffet breakfast and have my cup of tea. Complete this blog and time to make a move!

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While browsing further and making my blog post, I found this HSBC Promotion too in the HSBC Smart Privileges brochure. So looks like Hotel De La Ferns Cameron Highlands is jumping into the credit card promotion bandwagon too! This hotel is much pricier than the Equatorial promotion although it comes with breakfast and steamboat meal. Well this hotel is new (it's been more than a year now, still considered new I suppose) and they have been improving on their service. As the last time I checked up with them they gave me a good nice tour of the place. Just need to find the time write the blog post because I'm so busy right now I haven't found the time to do a proper update.




Hotel De La Ferns did admit their café restaurant service still need to be improved upon so let's hope this promotion which includes breakfast and steamboat dinner will live up to the improvement of F&B services.

As for the rooms, they are superb and probably charge a premium if comparing against other star rated hotels except YTL, Smokehouse and Lakehouse which are far more expensive. So you want nice and good, Hotel De La Ferns is the place. Location is great too! Just between Brinchang and Tanah Rata.

So study the HSBC Smart Privileges brochure which I extracted here and if you owned a HSBC credit card you can go for it if you feel the rates is within your budget for a Cameron Highlands vacation, right!

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I'm sure some of you guys are holding a HSBC credit card so looks like you can take up this Equatorial Cameron Highlands promotion. HSBC Smart Privileges brochure has something yummy for everybody, so while I was browsing it through I happened to bump into this hotel promotion. Such promotions are good for us right? After all it is cheaper than the usual rack rates. But of course you can still give a comparison by calling up Hotel Equatorial and ask them whether they have any other promotional rate, then compare that with the HSBC Smart Privileges promotion and see which offer is better. Shop smart mah!



I have stayed in Equatorial some years back with my wife and we certainly enjoyed our stay there saved for the rather slower maintenance / housekeeping service, in which they didn't seem to come to our room to fix up the faulty bathroom lights despite calling them so many times till finally the men came when we were about to check out. Hopefully you won't suffer any of that kind of nonsense while you stay there. This could happen in any Malaysian hotels not just here I suppose. Just a management issue. They did send an apology letter later. Hey this is a service industry and we need to compete against our neighbours like Thailand and Indonesia which I felt seem to give better hotel service when I travelled to those places. So buck up Malaysia Hotels!

Meanwhile study the promo which I extracted out from the HSBC newsletter for your perusal. Hope it meets your vacation budget!

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Read a comment in Facebook about the most strategic Apartment location in Cameron Highlands. I'm not sure what it means by strategic. If it means close to shops and amenities, apartment located in the two main towns namely Tanah Rata and Brinchang would be most strategic. If you have a car, and want to be close by to either Tanah Rata and Brinchang, then the halfway point between the two towns such as Desa Anthurium would be most strategic.

For note, most apartments in Cameron Highlands are slight off from the town centre, so some are within walking distance, and some actually needs a lot of walking to reach the town centre and might be better off to drive down to town.

Well I hope the above explains as to the most strategic apartment location in Cameron Highlands.

Cheers!

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Wishing all my blog readers, facebook and twitter friends, a Happy and Properous Chinese New Year!

As the rabbit hops in to usher the New Lunar Year hops in prosperity, good health, good friends and brings the family closer together!

May God smile on you grant you wisdom, blessings and abundance overflowing!

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

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Oh, wow! It's raining cats and dogs here in Cameron Highlands! Spoke with a denizen here and he said it's been like this since Sep 20th 2010. Hmm, he seemed to take note of the exact date the Cameron Highlands weather has become real wet for monsoon period.

Guess it is going to be like this for a while longer more till Chinese New Year!

This morning woke up with an 20.3 degress Centigrade temperature. I was freezing a bit too when I was at Uncle Chow Kopitiam.

Then it became really hot around noon time and now it is raining cats and dogs. Will have to go back to my room to charge up my digital camera. Collected lots of info too.

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According to my Casio watch, the temperature now is 22.2 degrees Celcius in my room. With the monsoon rain, I'm feeling a little cold. I didn't bring my jacket and resorted to wearing 2 t-shirts to keep warm. Fortunately I just bought a pair of jeans from Queensbay Mall the other night and decided to use it without washing it first. Now I'm tired and will plonk off to sleep! Cheers!

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Ah, it is nice to meet up with old friends, Mr Foong's black pepper steak was great. It was medium done, juicy, and very popular with guests. They even have thicker version for special order case. Good beef comes from Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Argentina. I didn't know about the latter two but they sure taste real great!

Now that they have renovated the place and open up the front, I would say that greatly improves their 'fung sui' a lot more as more walk by customers can walk in!

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I'm giving this Eight Mentigi Guesthouse a try. Initially I was to 'tumpang' my accommodation in Father's Guesthouse but Gerard wants to introduce his friends lodging which was started not too long ago in 2010.

A great way to boost up 8 Mentigi vacancy by having me stay the night and then later blog about it on my CHD website.

I blog more about this place later as I didn't sleep so well last night in Penang. Don't know why I'm having insomnia lately; could be due to too many things in my mind.

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Oh, if you see this gobbledygook, c0866d15b80a4ab990d25eaaea88fda8 , in my feed, just ignore it-lah! I'm trying to get this blog verified with some service. Cheers!

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