Our guest house here in Tanah Rata (a "small", one street town) books outings in the area for you. We chose the all day discovery tour. On this tour we began by hoping into Land Rovers that looked like they were about a thousand years old (speedometer broken btw), no seat belts, and we cruised at pretty high speeds around the s-curves on the mountain, eak! Our driver and guide Bob (there was also a guide named Kumar which is funny in itself), was great! He knew everything about the plants in the jungle and we learned a lot. After some stomach churning driving we stopped to see the view of the tea plantations.
Wow is it breathtaking. You have to see most views in the morning because it rains everyday in the afternoon and the cloud descend down so that you can almost touch them! Anyways, we had some fun playing in the tea fields and taking photos. We then went trekking in the jungle. It wasn't a long trek but it was by not means easy...there was mud and wet and climbing and sliding the entire time! Debra did a nice move like Tarzan and I wish I had my camera!!! We emerged from the jungle covered in mud only to hop back in the vehicles to get to the tea plantation. We had a cuppa and some tarts, yum. At this point we harassed our tour guide Bob to take us t a strawberry farm. Evidently these farms are big here. They don't export at all but the make the most exquisite jams, the ice cream, and tarts, and everything is sooo tasty! OUr favorite were the tarts (Debra is a bit obsessed) and the milk shakes. Also, all of the tourist shops have strawberry themed merchandise that is straight out of a Strawberry Shortcake cartoon nightmare. Seriously, so fun! We also met two new friends Larkland and Joanne from England. They were doing to the all day tour as well. Some folks only signed up the for the morning but we went for the full day!
Next stop was the Orang Asli Village. These folks still live in bamboo huts and live a basic tribal existence. We got to try their blow gun weapon (Colby rocks and hit just a cm below the target) and we also went into the houses. It was soo cool. The kids in the village were fascinated by us. Mainly because were with our two friends were Larkland, a super tall muscley black guy with a think English accent, and Joanne, a petite platinum blonde also with a think accent...and Debra and I. Needless to say the kids were interested in us:-)
After all of this we topped off the day at dinner with a steamboat. A steamboat is a local fun dining activity. It's basically like fondue but with soup! You have a big steaming pot of soup on a burner at the table and you have tons of raw meat, veggies, tofu, noodles, etc. and you cook it at the table and enjoy the soup. It was great fun!
We are off on a bus to the island Pulau Pangkor today. Hopefully this bus's suspension will actually exist compared to the one on the way up here that took s-curves at high speed and bounced like a baby chair!!!
More to come on the adventures of Debra and Colby....
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