Currently I am sitting drinking tea and eating scones with cream and jam in the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia. Here the British used to come to escape the heat during colonial times – it rains from 3:30 onwards here. There are lots of tea plantations and strawberry farms (very British) and beautiful rainforests. So far all we have done is go to the tea plantation and a Buddhist temple. To get about the villages we hitchhiked; once on the back of a pickup once on an old school bus and once with a middle aged Malaysian couple all of whom were wonderfully friendly.
Today I had my first hot shower on my trip – ace. Tomorrow we are going for a hike into the rainforest to hopefully the summit of the nearest mountain.
Prior to the Cameron highland I was in Tamen Negara a rainforest area. Here I went on a trek along a canopy walkway and then a long day trip into the forest with three others and two guides. One of which was a small funny chap who upon finding elephant tracks ran around the back of a tree and picked up the elephant dung high above his head with a big smile on his face. In the jungle there are loads of leeches and by the end of the trek I had 15 leech bites on my feet and blood soaked socks and shoes. On the boat ride back we stopped off at an aboriginal tribes home, which although very touristy was interesting and we got to have a go on the blow dart. Unfortunately as we were a large group we didn’t see many animals on the trek only a few monkeys and different insects.
So after a long day trek and losing pints of blood feeding the leeches I moved onto the Cameron Highlands where I am now eating tea and scones.
Some pictures of the trekking group
Laters taters
Leon
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ooooh, leeeeech!
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