Category Archives: Tanah Rata

Malaysia 2007 – Surprises and Highlights

My Malaysian blogs are almost at an end. I have focused on the aspects of our journey that were of most interest to me, and in so doing have left out much I could have mentioned. I’ll leave comprehensive coverage of “the sights” to the travel guides; the following is but a brief summary of personal highlights and impressions I want to record in closing. Continue reading Malaysia 2007 – Surprises and Highlights

Menu Malaysia: Fourth Course – Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands

We were dubious about the Cameron Highlands. We’d met some tourists who had not been impressed, and the Lonely Planet guide (unreliable and disappointing in general, but that’s another blog post) implied that in recent years the region’s character had been wrecked with commercialism and its natural environment ravaged and plundered. The facts as we saw them? Continue reading Menu Malaysia: Fourth Course – Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands