Sungai Palas Tea Plantation

We stayed at the Hotel Equatorial at Brinchang in Cameron, and it's a 15 minutes walk to the Sungai Palas Tea Plantation entrance. But don't be mislead, it's just an entrance/road to the Boh Tea Centre. If you walk, which we did, it's an hour to an hour half walk one way to reach the center, and yes, it's an up hill and down hill walk, with very very very narrow road! Sure you can take a cab or a tour bus there, but then, where's the fun in that :P And so we walked there.

The wonderful thing about the walk is, you get to see scenery along the way, hear birds singing, and walk right into the plantation whenever you feel like it. Do be careful of traffics, and use your common sense as the road is really really narrow that at some part, it's practically a one path road. If you walk there, along the way you can hear conversation from the car passing by that goes like "Look at those two crazy people.....". But who cares?

And behold, at the end of the walk, the spectacular view of the Boh Tea Centre tea house, hanging there in midair. I hear scones and freshly brewed tea calling my name already! If I ever have a house with a balcony like that, I think I'll be the happiest person on earth!


Side track a bit, I just wanted to share that when you travel on your own, the things that you get to experience are far beyond what any tour can offer you. And this photo is one of them, the village playground, overlooking the beautiful valley of tea. We couldn't help ourselves and went and took a ride on those swing. It was one of the free-est feeling one could have! Sure we got a few stare from the villagers who are mostly plantation worker, but after a while, they got tired of us and went back to their chatting, and we continue on swinging around until we got tired, and make out 1.5hours walk back to the hotel :)



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Boh Tea Centre
Hotel Equatorial Cameron