Cameron Highlands - Day 3

The following day, we decided not to have breakfast at the hotel but to have scones for breakfast. Drove down to Tana Rata town at about 830 am ... but only to realize that the T. Cafe that we wanted to go to opened only at 10 am !!! So we decided to have our breakfast at the StarBucks Cafe.

While the adults orderd muffins and coffee, the kids indulged in animal biscuits that Mummy brought along for the trip. See how Joel and me kept comparing the biscuits to see what animals we have chosen


After a good breakfast, we set off for the Agricultural Centre at the Cameron Highlands. Was recommended by Uncle Chow (the owner of Uncle Chow's Cafe where we had lunch the previous day). And when we reached there, the place was really HUGE !!! Only the adults needed to pay entrance fee of RM 5 each. Considered really cheap for the experience.

Different kinds of flowers and plants everywhere in the nursery

The nice cooling weather really produced bright coloured flowers and huge flowers as well.

Not forgetting to take a photo at the cactus garden with Joel

And a family photo in the midst of the huge garden

Then came the fruits and vegetable section. Tomato, but not ripe

Zucchini .... and they had different colours : green, black, yellow

Huge cabbage, enough to last us for several days

Grapes hanging from the vines

And you guessed it right .... chilli padi

And see this interesting vegetable ??? Garden salad lettuce !!! Can just bring a bottle of Thousand Island sauce, put a bit on the lettuce and eat it on the spot !!! Ha ha

And trust your eyes ... a super huge winter melon weighing more than me!!! Daddy was so afraid that we will pull the winter melon off

Pumpkins on the ground. I was so excited to see the pumpkins.

Besides what was shown here, we also saw french beans, sweet peas, carrots, parsley, celery, asparagus, water cress, broccoli and cauliflower (still very small sprout), apples and pear trees (but the fruits were very small), capsicums, eggplants, and many more! Very educational for both adults and children since we don't have the chance to see all these in urban Singapore!

After all the educational flower and vegetable tour, we hit the children's playground in the garden

And yes, Camille was not afraid of the swing !!! See how she was enjoying herself ???

For lunch, we decided to go back to the T. Cafe at Tana Rata town since this was one of the recommended cafe on the Internet. Food was really cheap. A dish of fried rice is only RM 4.90. Daddy ordered pasta at only RM 9.90.

While waiting for food, Daddy went around the cafe and found out why the cafe was named T. Cafe ....

The T. Cafe was famous for their scones and apple pies. We ordered the scones and they were really nice. But was too full to have the apple pie (in fact, the apple pies were more famous than the scones)

After lunch, we drove back to Binchiang town and went to the Butterfly Farm. Each adult cost RM 5 and kids above 3 years old at RM2. But the place was really nice ... lots of butterfly free roaming in the compound

And lots of beautiful flowers .... and they were really BIG !!!

Besides butterfly, they also had other insects and reptiles on display. See the log-like frog

And scorpion on the Uncle's arm .... yucks !!!

Different kinds of snakes

And the most amazing insect must be this .... can you see where the real moving leaf insect was ???

Can you guess what the red palm weevil were doing ??? Mating !!!!

After the butterfly farm, we went to this strawberry farm, where we can pluck our own strawberries and then eat them. So Uncle Telang, Joel, Daddy and me paid RM20 (to pluck half a kg of strawberries) for the experience, while the rest waited outside for us (cos they were so particular, only limit 3 person if we only pay for 1/2 kg)

See all the strawberries hanging in the farm ....

And see how serious I was, when plucking strawberries. Daddy told me, I must only pluck those that were full red and big ... cos they will be real sweet. Joel did not want to pluck at all, so in the end Uncle Telang did it on his behalf

And the end result was a full plate of red strawberries !!!! This time, the strawberries were 100% sweet. Super yummy!! But I still only ate 1, cos I don't like strawberries....

Of course, the kids cannot resist all the attractive strawberry merchandise in the shop. All the 3 kids got a pair of red strawberry slippers .... and I was so eager that when I reached the hotel apartment, I insisted to try out my new slippers .... is that nice ???

We went back to our hotel apartment and played with bubbles before dinner. Since the balcony was so big, that was the ideal place for bubbles fun !!!

We had steamboat for dinner again (cos the cooling weather made it really good for steamboat) ... this time we tried another restaurant that was recommended on the Internet as well. Was better than the previous day. And the best part was disturbing Uncle Telang once Joel and me completed our dinner !!!

That night, I slept at about 10+ pm .... eager to look forward to the next day