Stop 2; Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands

So, let's roll back the weeks shall we.  We both got a bit chuffed with ourselves for figuring out how to get the bus up to the Cameron Highlands - its in the middle of Peninsula Malaysia (4 hours north by bus) and a million times cooler at an altitude of around 1400m (I think).

As much as I liked KL this turned out too be far more to my liking, a lovely little place oddly akin to a town in the Alps:



It was a great few days away from the heat and the hustle and bustle, excellent walking along jungle trails and bagged our first summit (Gunung Berembun, 1840m).  Bad weather prevented another summit, but we did befriend two local dogs who came on a 4 hour hike with us through the jungle...I'm not sure this will be bested in Bex's opinion!  A quick tourist trip to tea plantations, strawberry farms and the summit we could not hike and we were on another bus north again....



(Also spotted our first wild monkeys; a troop of long-tailed macaques high in the trees - very exciting at the time, but the "jungle mafia" are VERY familiar to us after a month in Asia!)