Highland Tour

We got up about 10:30, but it was tough. We were both totally lazy and didn't want to get up, but we forced ourself. We had breakfast, showered, then decided to book the half-day Highland Tour for 15 ringget. They pick us up at 2:00.

Court and I walked downtown for a while, through the park, then back to the guest house, used the internet, bought our bus tickets back to KL for tomorrow, then about 1:00, went back downtown to get something to eat. We headed back to the guest house about 1:45 and the mini-bus came and picked us up at 2:00.

We picked up one other couple, and off we went.

First off was the Boh (Best Of Highlands) tea plantation and factory. Unfortunately, it was Sunday, a day off, so the factory was open, but not operational, so we didn't get to see it in action. It was quite interesting, and we had some specialty tea in their tea room, I had a banana-cherry tea. WOW, was it ever good. Court had something else (we forget), but it was quite tasty as well.

We also visited (not necessarily in this order), the butterfly farm, central market, rose garden, strawberry farm, Buddhist temple, and honeybee farm.

The butterfly farm was neat, lots and lots of butterfly's, and other cool stuff, like some snakes, and leaf insects (look exactly like a leaf), stick insects, leaf frogs (they look exaclty like a brown, fallen leaf), rhinoceros beetle (UGLY), and some other stuff. The Rose Garden was very beautiful, lots and lots and lots of flowers. The rest of the stuff wasn't that interesting.

The tour finished about 6:00, then myself, Court and Joey went downtown to indulge in the local specialty, a Chinese dinner called the Steamboat. It's where you get your own little stove, and they bring you all the raw meat and veggies and noodles, and you cook it all yourself. Everyone here eats them, and all the restaurants serve them. It was good, but not great, and wasn't very filling. But at least we can say we had it.

Court and I hit the internet for a while afterwards, then we went back to the guest house, packed our stuff and to bed. We have a bus back to KL tomorrow morning at 10:30.