The drive here was beautiful, and when we finally got the 'Tanah Rata' in the highlands it was a tiny little village with mountains towering around all sides. I actually fell in love with this place within the first second of being here, mostly because as soon as we stepped off the coach there was a chill in the air, hoodies on we went walking to find a hostel. By night it was cold enough to wear clothes and sleep under a blanket, it was a comforting feeling to need to wrap up at night, something I didn't realize I'd missed so much.
Day 1
Today we had met up with Meika again and the three of us decided to go hitchhiking. There was only one main road through the mountains so it was easy to hop on and hop off.
Our first stop was a strawberry farm, unfortunately it was school holidays so they wouldn't allow us to pick our own :(. I was actually sick of seeing strawberries and strawberry memorabilia by the end of the day, it was EVERYWHERE!! I think i counted over 20+ strawberry farms on a 12km stretch of road.
We hitched a bit further but the traffic got so bad because of the school holidays we decided to get out and walk.
We found a stall selling 'Toddy Palm' it's some kind of strange fruit, tasted like licorice and was so refreshing having just walked 3km.
Next stop a random mushroom farm, this was my favorite. I have a soft spot for fungi ;)
Still trying to just pick one strawberry...
Ahhhhhh!
We then found a cactus farm which was pretty cool. I've realized by this point there slightly obsessed with 'farms' of any sort...
Haha
Next stop of the day was a ... yeah you guessed it a farm. A butterfly farm :)
The frog families.
We hitched back to Tanah Rata and had the best food we'd had on our travels. It was an amazing Indian place, we wen't back several times. We decided after this to Hitch to a Aborigine village which is marked on the map, in total we spent 3 hours looking for it. We finally bumped into a guy who told us that it didn't exist anymore, even though they advertise it on the tours, we couldn't help but laugh that we'd been trekking for so long in search of something that hadn't existed for over a year.
This made me laugh...
Such a wicked day.
Day 2
It had been pretty gloomy most of the day, Olly and I felt pretty brave though and we knew we couldn't miss out on seeing the tea plantations, so although we thought a storm was on it's way we hitchhiked again to see the tea plantations.
We ended up in a mini van with an Indian family, Ponita and the monkeys. Hitchhiking was fun! It's pretty exhilarating just jumping in a car with random people, we ended up meeting some real characters.
As we suspected the storm came in fast, we actually got stranded here for about two hours as the rain was so heavy we couldn't stand in it to hitch back up to the village. We drank a pot of every tea on the menu and then braved it and wen't out in the rain to try and get back to our hostel. Luckily we were only waiting 5 minutes before someone stopped, again such a fun mission we felt truly stranded at one point, but we made it back in on piece.
Olly's sad face and dodgy moustache as we got stuck in the storm. It's a shame we got no good photos of the tea plantations but we tried! :)
Tomorrow we leave for the Perhentian islands. Bye bye rain.
Hahaha - sounds like you are having a wonderful time and a complete set of adventures ... well done both of you :-D
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