Brinchang Town & The Warriors of Cameron Highlands

Brinchang town (N4°29.508' E101°23.324') - located about 5KM up north from Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands. I noticed this small town occupied by many luxury and budget hotels. Beside that, there are also many choices for Steamboat Restaurant...(that's why I said before, you need to travel both town frequently). One of the famous restaurant here is 'OK Tuck Steamboat Restaurant', but we don't have a chance to taste it yet...

It's only has few main roads here (for the moment) and pretty easy for you to move around...
The hotel (Rosa Passadena Hotel) that we stayed is just situated in the middle of the town, it's really convenience for food and daily necessity.

This small town is under heavy construction for hotels and apartments to cater more visitors and tourist during public holiday, I feel this situations might overkill the greenery of the Beauty Nature!
My disappointment is...Cameron Highlands is not as cold as those day since my last visit (year 2003), maybe because of the 'Global Warming'? Maybe....
...hopefully it will be back to what it was...


Another interesting scene is...there are many Land Rover Series 1 & Defender in this Highlands. I called them as "The Warriors of Cameron Highlands". Without them, farming will become big problem! At the moment, I don't think others vehicle can replace it because normal lorry will not complete the task in the plantation...

Let me share some photos of the Warriors...








All the Land Rover here are having different type of Road Tax compare with normal vehicle in Malaysia. Have you notice the words : "CH"? I believe that's their "road tax".
No wonder, my friend always tell me that...Cameron Highlands is the Home Of Land Rover!

Disaster Respond Unit

If you are beer drinker, please visit this minimart below...they are selling the cheapest beer in town! MYR4.80 (SGD2.00) per can for Carlsberg.


Brinchang, I will be back!

My Cameron Highlands Trip - September 2009
* Rosa Passadena Hotel at Brinchang, Cameron Highlands (D1)
* Tanah Rata Town of Cameron Highlands 2009 (D1)
* Dinner at Rosa Passadena Hotel - Brinchang, Cameron Highlands (D1)
* The Mossy Forest of Cameron Highlands (September 2009) , Pahang (D2)
*Mount (Gunung) Brinchang Lookout Tower, Cameron Highlands - Pahang (D2)
* The Sungai Palas BOH Tea Plantation, Cameron Highlands (D2)
* The Time Tunnel Musuem of Cameron Highlands, Pahang (D2)
* Lunch at Cameron Highlands, Pahang (D2)
* Mr Nachimuthu's Strawberry Farm at Brinchang, Cameron Highlands (D2)
* Big Red Strawberry Farm of Cameron Highlands, Pahang (D2)
* Bala's Holiday Chalet at Cameron Highlands, Pahang (D2) - Bad impression
* Traveler Pub and Bistro at Tanah Rata of Cameron Highlands, Pahang (D2)
* The Morning Fruits & Vegetables Market at Brinchang, Cameron Highlands (D3)

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The Morning Fruits & Vegetables Market at Brinchang, Cameron Highlands

The market (N4°30.210' E101°24.416') located at the Kea Farm area along the road to Rose Centre. The stretch is about 150 meter from the main road. Shops are selling vegetables, flower, fruits and souvenirs at the both side of the road.

Most of shops are closed during our visit.

The best timing to visit this street will be weekend of public holiday, most of them are close during week day. But I believe they sell the same stuffs...

Strawberry stall along the road

Many tourist also visit this street by their tour agency during the morning session. My wife and daughter having their window shopping and I had a cup of Teh Tarik (Tea) at one of the coffee shop...

Vegetables here are really cheap and fresh! The stall below selling the vege 16 packs for MYR15.00. You can choose any combination you like...All of them are packed.
My wife took the attractive package. At least we bought something...haha!

This is the place (beside the wet market) where you can buy most of the vegetables and others which planted on Cameron Highlands.

Vegetables stall

The flower stall

We didn't buy many stuffs from the here on our second visit, but we loved the fresh air and the feeling of walking under the sun. We stayed around for about 1 hour, then we had a cup of tea again! :)

They sell Cactus too...

My daughter was staring at the tibits which make from fruits

Not crowded during our visit, it was quite a nice walk along the street.

Red Strawberry

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My Cameron Highlands Trip - September 2009
* Rosa Passadena Hotel at Brinchang, Cameron Highlands (D1)
* Tanah Rata Town of Cameron Highlands 2009 (D1)
* Dinner at Rosa Passadena Hotel - Brinchang, Cameron Highlands (D1)
* The Mossy Forest of Cameron Highlands (September 2009) , Pahang (D2)
* Mount (Gunung) Brinchang Lookout Tower, Cameron Highlands - Pahang (D2)
* The Sungai Palas BOH Tea Plantation, Cameron Highlands (D2)
* The Time Tunnel Musuem of Cameron Highlands, Pahang (D2)
* Lunch at Cameron Highlands, Pahang (D2)
* Mr Nachimuthu's Strawberry Farm at Brinchang, Cameron Highlands (D2)
* Big Red Strawberry Farm of Cameron Highlands, Pahang (D2)
* Bala's Holiday Chalet at Cameron Highlands, Pahang (D2) - Bad impression
* Traveler Pub and Bistro at Tanah Rata of Cameron Highlands, Pahang (D2)

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Cactus Valley, Brinchang - Cameron Highland

We visited this big nice Cactus Valley (N4°29.674' E101°23.200') on the 2nd day of the trip (Sep, 2003). I cannot remember the entrance fees now......hmm, my poor memory!

Basically, it's full of choices of the Cactus and colourful too!

The Biggest Cactus in the valley!!

One of the visitor of this blog – Mr Kumar told that there's a Big Red Strawberry Farm and the back of this Valley. But you have to walk through Cactus Valley.....and it's FREE entrance! If you are happen to here the Cactus Valley, it's worth visit this Hi-tech farm few steps further up!


Related post :-
* Cameron Highland in 2003, Pahang
* Lata (Waterfall) Iskandar at Cameron Highland


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