When traveling in Malaysia, you cannot miss the tea plantation located in the Cameron Highland, where various types of tea are grown. Green bushes covered with tea leaves make it one of the most picturesque places in mainland Malaysia.
Cameron Highlands Mountains
Tea bushes produce the best quality crops at the right altitudes, in the right soils and at the right temperature. The one in the Cameron mountains is favorable and fluctuates around 16 degrees at night and 25 during the day.
It is no coincidence that the Cameron Highlands plantation is located on the hills, at an altitude of about 1000 m above sea level, where all these conditions are met. All it takes is a proper processing and good-quality aromatic tea leaves are created, from which a golden drink is made.
Cameron Highlands - BOH tea plantation
One of the largest tea plantations, called BOH, has over 1,200 hectares. Each hectare of this plantation produces about 3,000 kg of tea leaves, which is more than 4 million kg of tea annually.
Is that a lot? As for Malaysian conditions, it's a lot, but compared to, for example, Srilanka, it's almost nothing.
However, there is a small disappointment while visiting this beautiful corner. Namely, the entire harvesting process does not take place as it used to, whether as it is now in China or Sri Lanka, by hand, but unfortunately by machine.
So it is useless to look for women with baskets, in specific headgear, bustling among the lush greenery of tea terraces.
On the plantation we will find a place where its history is described, we will learn a lot about the type of teas and the technological process they are served.
There are also antique machines and accessories formerly used to harvest tea leaves.
There is a small bar in the buildings, where we can eat and taste tea from the local plantation.
If someone is a tea connoisseur, he should not set himself up for some euphoric experiences. The tea is decent but no frills.
Strawberry Frenzy - Strawberry Plantation
While walking around Cameron, you can also visit a strawberry plantation. For Europeans, it's basically the same as going and seeing a potato field, there's no excitement about it, no adrenaline like painting a fence.
The Malaysians, on the other hand, are crazy about strawberries. There is everything with strawberries, drinks, ice cream, cakes. The strawberry symbol appears wherever possible, on benches, as graffiti, as monuments and advertising gadgets. This phenomenon is a real strawberry-mania that has gripped the Malaysians.
A kilogram of this delicacy costs not little, about $ 12. For me, this fruit is overrated, because firstly it is grown in greenhouses on a strange substrate in bags, fed with chemical mixtures, and secondly, it looks nice, as it does not have the taste of real strawberries. Well, there is nothing like our Polish ground strawberries appearing in June.
Lavender plantation and related gadgets, or vice versa?
Exactly. When you enter a lavender plantation, you get the impression that you are visiting some kind of amusement park full of lavender-themed merchandise stalls, and the lavender plantation itself is just an accessory that has been created to match.
In my opinion, it is a waste of time to visit this shrine, it is better to stay longer in the tea plantation and enjoy the greenery of beautiful bushes.
Summing up the plantation, due to the beautiful views, it is absolutely worth including this place on your Bucket List.
