Xiao Pang Diary: Xiao Pang in Cameron Highlands Day 3 (17/12/14)

Hello! This is Xiao Pang again! Today, I am going to talk about the third day of our trip! This was one of the best and worst days. Well, the best thing is getting to touch and see a snake up close! It's not poisonous, of course. Leaving Lakehouse, which is the worst thing. After two days here, Lakehouse feels like a home to me now. Anyway, everything began like this...

     I woke up and felt a sense of dread, I was leaving Lakehouse today. How I wish I never woke up! I didn't want to leave Lakehouse. Ever. Anyway, I went downstairs and had breakfast for the last time in this visit. :( The breakfast was scrumptious. Then we packed up our things and got ready to leave. I was very reluctant to go as I felt welcome and at home here. I wish I could stay here forever! We carried our luggage down and we proceeded to checkout. We noticed Yen Yin(read Day 1) wasn't the receptionist, so we asked the person at the reception where Yen Yin was. He said she to leave to attend a wedding. Sad, now I wasn't able to say goodbye to Yen Yin and the Jungle Trekking Guide(read Day 2), I didn't even know what his name was. We board a van from Titiwangsa Tours and Travel and the driver drove us to the Titiwangsa Headquarters. He dropped us of there and he went to pick up some other people. When he came back, we boarded the van again and we went for the Nature Discovery Tour. The driver, who was also our guide, drove us to see a tea plantation. We took some photos and we boarded the van AGAIN. Then, he drove us to the top of Gunung Brinchang and we climbed to the top and there was a tower. We had climbed to the second level, when I couldn't take it anymore, as it was cold and the steps were very narrow. And I am AFRAID OF HEIGHTS! Besides, there's so much fog you could hardly see scenery. If there wasn't so much fog, you could see Ipoh from the tower, I think. There were three levels on the tower. So, we climbed down the tower and board and van yet again, where we were drove to the Mossy Forest, which we passed on our way to the top of Gunung Brinchang. Our guide pluck a leaf from a tree and showed us the white sap. He told us that these were edible and explained to us how to check which leaves are poisonous and if it is poisonous, how to remove the poison from your skin. He also to us the leaves will make your blood circulation slower, so an adult only can eat 5 leaves a day and a child can only consume 2 leaves a day. Next, he show us some little red berries, and he explain that the smaller kinds are less poisonous, but it can be used during hunting to paralyse small animals. While the bigger berries are more poisonous, I forgot what he said that the berries could do, but they were more poisonous than the smaller ones. When were given half an hour in the Mossy Forest and we saw a lot of trees covered in moss. The forest looked really grey, like the kind you would see in Harry Potter movies. I think it give the place a cold feeling. With all the fog and everything. I think we were given too little time. There wasn't enough time to see the whole place. :( We were out in half an hour and our guide drove us to the 'BOH' Tea Factory. There was a nice view of the whole tea plantation from there. There was also the history of 'BOH' Tea. We bought lots of tea and also some souvenirs. The history of 'BOH' Tea was very long and I haven't finish reading all of it when we had to go. I was sad because I was very interested in the history of the 'BOH' Tea. 'BOH' stands for 'Best of Highlands'. Anyway, we boarded the van again and we were drove back to the Titiwangsa headquarters, which means the Nature Discovery Tour was over. We went to eat lunch, which was steam boat. It was very very very delicious. :) When we finished our lunch, our guide for the Leisure Tour had arrived. The guide drove us to the bee farm. We saw some bees buzzing around and there was a maze. We entered the maze and it was very dark. We kept coming back to the same place. We finished the maze, which was quite big. We bought some honey and key chains and left. Next, we went to the Butterfly Farm. There were snakes! We also got one of the workers there to take out a snake! The snake that we were allowed to take was the Whip Snake. The worker said it was very friendly. We took lots and lots of photos since I like snakes. But we had to go because we had other places to go. We left reluctantly and our guide drove us to a strawberry farm. We could pick our own strawberries! We could even eat it fresh. It tasted wonderful. We picked lots of strawberries and it was really fun. But occasionally I would spot a furry strawberry, the whole strawberry is covered with mould, so much so that it looks fluffy. It looks very disgusting. Anyway, after picking our strawberries, we went to the Rose Garden. At the Rose Garden, there were lots and lots and lots of flowers. Other than flowers, there were only more flowers. But the place was gigantic. Even though, we reached the top, there was still a long, long way to go. But due to time limit, we had to leave. We were then drove to the Titiwangsa Headquarters to have dinner. Dinner was steam boat too. It was fantastic. By then, it was quite late so we were drove to Copthorne, our next and last hotel. We went to our hotel rooms and called it a day.
     Well, that's pretty much everything that happened on Day 3. Feel free to comment anything! See you soon!
                                                                                                                                ~Xiao Pang