The Cameron Highlands was a very long day, departing from our City Centre hotel at 5am and returning at 8pm. There was plenty to see and do ranging from tea plantations to fruit farms, a butterfly garden, rose and orchid gardens, local market and a home visit in a local village. We never felt rushed and had plenty of time to spend as much time as we wanted at each stop. Our included lunch, at the Sultan Ahmed Shah Golf Club included the quite unique (and unexpected) experience of seeing the King of Malaysia presenting awards before departing by helicopter! The only negative was the heavy traffic during our return drive to Kuala Lumpur. We would recommend avoiding weekends for this tour if possible.

The guide Mr Pillai was very kind. It was fun listening to everything he had to say. He also did his best to make sure we had fun and drove very safely. But, the tour itself is probably overpriced. It says that entrance tickets are included, but the only thing that actually cost to enter was the small insect museum which was very cheap (10 Malaysian Ringgit) - we certainly did not have time for the biform. which takes us to the next point: the schedule is too tight: no chance of reaching all the attractions without stress. The most fun was the tea plantations and we almost wish we had only skipped half of the other and had more time on the plantation (for example, we did not have time to go in and walk in one of them, which looked very nice). One last thing was also that they changed the pick up time for us from 5am to 7am. The company announced this at 12pm when we were already asleep. As a result, we got up unnecessarily in the middle of the night and had our dinner plans canceled.

We booked a private tour to Cameron highlands with get your guide. The rates were cheaper than what was offered at the hotel concierge but not inexpensive. Our driver and guide Mr Imran Ganesh arrived right on time and also kept in touch before that through Whatsapp which I appreciated! He was friendly, informative and such a great host. The places we visited were bee farm, strawberry picking, bharat tea farm, bugs/insect house, local market, aborigine village, vegetable farm. We not only enjoyed all the places, we enjoyed Mr Imran’s company even more. He fed us local favorites like pao kaya, curry puff, apple guava, jackfruit. I would highly recommend this company especially Mr Imran. Request him and you will enjoy your trip double fold!