This trip had been planned long ago...sometime in June. It was initiated from an article in My Paper on Came
ron. I was attracted by the nature and the description in the papers that I started to 'influence' Jeremy and my sisters if they will be kee
n. Glad that Jeremy is OK with my proposal and Grace decided to join as well. A pity mum and dad didn't want to join eventhough my intention is to give them a free trip on my expense. After much research and calculations, I have decided to fly to Ipoh via firefly, then booked a transport to bring all of us (7pax) up to Cameron. Hotel had also been set to stay in a 3-rooms apartment at Hotel Equatorial. The day finally comes.. and the kids are excited over the trip. It's the 1st trip for little Cieran and 1st time on a airplane. He is a cutie... he insisted to be carry a bag over his shoulder, just like his sister. Looking at their happy smiles, I am happy too! Cieran is extremely happy when he sees an airplane. This is our
1st time to visit the budget airport and 1st ti
me on board Firefly Air. It was better than I imagine. The budget air provides quite good service on board. Unlike jetstar who doesn't serve any food items unless you purchase them, firefly aire does provides light snacks and juice FOC. We arrived to Ipoh at 4.30pm. Smoothly met the driver and on the drive to Cameron. The children gets so excited that they 
refused to nap on the 1.5hrs journey. 
The children choose to sit together by the last row. The route up the 
highland has been easy, it was unlike what I have been told that the roads are rough and curvy. It was a comfortable ride, not as bad as I projected. I love the natural air-con from the cooling weather. Our apa
rtment turn out to be a pleasant one, bigger than expected. Th
e children have fun walking around exploring. After settling down the luggage, we went out for a sumptuous meal. Thanks to the hotel shutter service that gave us a free ride to Strawberry View restaurant for yummy steamboat. It's a pleasure to have something soupy and warm in such a cool weather (esp after rain!) Our 1st experience to enjoy steamboat on such cool weather. I love it! Back to hotel, we walked a
round the lobby and ended up having ice cream for desserts. Sitting at the fireplace, it's so relaxing. The children amuses themselves with balloons picking fr
om
an event held at the ballroom. Little Cieran is sure happy! He loves balloons. The next day filled the day up with educational tours! We have hired a coach for 6 hours, bringing us around to several farms. The 1st stop is Rose Garden. An eye opener for all of us to see such many rose varieties. Beside roses, the 3 old cactus caught our attention. The cactus was older than any one of us. Haha! They are 39, 40 and 41 years old! Natural, the l
adies are admiring
and enjoying the flowers while the men gets kinda bored...haha! Jeremy and Cieran rather wait for us at the souvenir shop. Next,
we stopover at the honeybee farm. The children gets the opportunity to see the different types of bees and wasps. Little Cieran is very curious...at least, he gets to see up close how a bee looks like. ;-p A good educational tour for kids indeed! As we drive along the route, we stopped by a small watercress farm. They serve
d steamboat as well, and we have decided to try that for dinner. Again, another eyeopener
r for us. 1st time we saw how watercress was grown. You'll be amazed how the folks here can drain the water through piping for the growth and watercress was grown in a pool of 'drainwater'.... how unhygienic...haha! But then, from the landscaping point of view, it does look beautiful. Just don't look down! Next stop is Boh Tea Plantation, a must to visit! Along th
e journey, you can already see how big the tea plantation is.... which means, how rich the own is! The factory is open free for visitors. We get to see how 
the tea leaves was processed. There's a simple introduction given by the driver, which was good information about the grade of tea leaves. I've bought 2 packs of Boh tea. 3-in-1 tea packs and ice tea with fruits for home consumption. We took a break at the Boh Tea Cafe. The children enjoys their cake...esp Little Cieran. He loves the cake, and I went off to buy another one for the children to share. After lunch, the driver brought us to the farm that the children had been waiting for. It's the highlight of the whole tour-Strawberry farm! The 
children has been asking since morning when they 
can picked the strawberries...! Look at the 3 strawberries? Which is juicer? The picking wasn't cheap, actually. It was half a kg at RM 20, but it comes with the fun of choosing own fruit and cut it with the scissors provided. The next hour was spent of busy walking around, in search of big, red strawberries. Ashley was really busy in picking her fruit, while Cieran was her assistant, carrying a basket fo
llowing her. The kids look so cute with their baske
ts. This is all our 1st time 
(sounds so familiar) to see a strawberry pot. The flower is beautiful, white petals with yellow pulps. The farm are grown from hydroponics. Organic with no fertilisers used. The children gets to eat freshly picked strawberries after the weighing, paying and washing. The most happy one again is little Cieran. He loves strawberries! Ashley on the other hand, doesn't like strawberries, but she enjoys too... 
with her strawberry smoothies. Besides strawberries, there's also a varieties of vegetables grown in the farm. Fresh lettuce best for salads. A pity we are not able to buy any of them... wont be fresh by the time we bring back to SIN. But the look of it, you will know that they will taste very yummy. The whole tour has been an enjoyable one. I believed all the children has a fruitful day. Back to the apartment, the children are still very energetic. They started to play the few toys that I brought. Snap, fishing game..and Uno. The guys, on the other hand, were so tired and took a nap in the rooms until dinner time. The dinner at watercress was an interesting one. N
ot the usual steamboat that we had, the soup base was kinda 'herbal'. None
theless, it was healthy. As the kids have a long tour in the day without nap, they are all tired over dinner. On our last day, we decided to walk out to the market on our own instead of hopping on to the hotel shuttle. It was a relaxing and cool walk. The
Kea Farm-day market was not far from our hotel. We have some fruitful buys, such as a strawberry umbrella that I have been eyeing for, a couple of key chains for Ashley to give to her friends in carpe diem, a strawberry shortcake bag for Ashley etc... Yes, strawberry... Cameron's token is strawberries! Good for the girls...haha... but nothing much to buy for the boys. Vernon felt so left out... I believed Cieran will too, if he is older. (Phew! He doesn't understands yet) Our 4 days 3 nights had been well spent in Cameron. Though short, but we all have a FUN time!
ron. I was attracted by the nature and the description in the papers that I started to 'influence' Jeremy and my sisters if they will be kee
n. Glad that Jeremy is OK with my proposal and Grace decided to join as well. A pity mum and dad didn't want to join eventhough my intention is to give them a free trip on my expense. After much research and calculations, I have decided to fly to Ipoh via firefly, then booked a transport to bring all of us (7pax) up to Cameron. Hotel had also been set to stay in a 3-rooms apartment at Hotel Equatorial. The day finally comes.. and the kids are excited over the trip. It's the 1st trip for little Cieran and 1st time on a airplane. He is a cutie... he insisted to be carry a bag over his shoulder, just like his sister. Looking at their happy smiles, I am happy too! Cieran is extremely happy when he sees an airplane. This is our
1st time to visit the budget airport and 1st ti
me on board Firefly Air. It was better than I imagine. The budget air provides quite good service on board. Unlike jetstar who doesn't serve any food items unless you purchase them, firefly aire does provides light snacks and juice FOC. We arrived to Ipoh at 4.30pm. Smoothly met the driver and on the drive to Cameron. The children gets so excited that they 
refused to nap on the 1.5hrs journey. 
The children choose to sit together by the last row. The route up the 
highland has been easy, it was unlike what I have been told that the roads are rough and curvy. It was a comfortable ride, not as bad as I projected. I love the natural air-con from the cooling weather. Our apa
rtment turn out to be a pleasant one, bigger than expected. Th
e children have fun walking around exploring. After settling down the luggage, we went out for a sumptuous meal. Thanks to the hotel shutter service that gave us a free ride to Strawberry View restaurant for yummy steamboat. It's a pleasure to have something soupy and warm in such a cool weather (esp after rain!) Our 1st experience to enjoy steamboat on such cool weather. I love it! Back to hotel, we walked a
round the lobby and ended up having ice cream for desserts. Sitting at the fireplace, it's so relaxing. The children amuses themselves with balloons picking fr
om
an event held at the ballroom. Little Cieran is sure happy! He loves balloons. The next day filled the day up with educational tours! We have hired a coach for 6 hours, bringing us around to several farms. The 1st stop is Rose Garden. An eye opener for all of us to see such many rose varieties. Beside roses, the 3 old cactus caught our attention. The cactus was older than any one of us. Haha! They are 39, 40 and 41 years old! Natural, the l
adies are admiring
and enjoying the flowers while the men gets kinda bored...haha! Jeremy and Cieran rather wait for us at the souvenir shop. Next,
we stopover at the honeybee farm. The children gets the opportunity to see the different types of bees and wasps. Little Cieran is very curious...at least, he gets to see up close how a bee looks like. ;-p A good educational tour for kids indeed! As we drive along the route, we stopped by a small watercress farm. They serve
d steamboat as well, and we have decided to try that for dinner. Again, another eyeopener
r for us. 1st time we saw how watercress was grown. You'll be amazed how the folks here can drain the water through piping for the growth and watercress was grown in a pool of 'drainwater'.... how unhygienic...haha! But then, from the landscaping point of view, it does look beautiful. Just don't look down! Next stop is Boh Tea Plantation, a must to visit! Along th
e journey, you can already see how big the tea plantation is.... which means, how rich the own is! The factory is open free for visitors. We get to see how 
the tea leaves was processed. There's a simple introduction given by the driver, which was good information about the grade of tea leaves. I've bought 2 packs of Boh tea. 3-in-1 tea packs and ice tea with fruits for home consumption. We took a break at the Boh Tea Cafe. The children enjoys their cake...esp Little Cieran. He loves the cake, and I went off to buy another one for the children to share. After lunch, the driver brought us to the farm that the children had been waiting for. It's the highlight of the whole tour-Strawberry farm! The 
children has been asking since morning when they 
can picked the strawberries...! Look at the 3 strawberries? Which is juicer? The picking wasn't cheap, actually. It was half a kg at RM 20, but it comes with the fun of choosing own fruit and cut it with the scissors provided. The next hour was spent of busy walking around, in search of big, red strawberries. Ashley was really busy in picking her fruit, while Cieran was her assistant, carrying a basket fo
llowing her. The kids look so cute with their baske
ts. This is all our 1st time 
(sounds so familiar) to see a strawberry pot. The flower is beautiful, white petals with yellow pulps. The farm are grown from hydroponics. Organic with no fertilisers used. The children gets to eat freshly picked strawberries after the weighing, paying and washing. The most happy one again is little Cieran. He loves strawberries! Ashley on the other hand, doesn't like strawberries, but she enjoys too... 
with her strawberry smoothies. Besides strawberries, there's also a varieties of vegetables grown in the farm. Fresh lettuce best for salads. A pity we are not able to buy any of them... wont be fresh by the time we bring back to SIN. But the look of it, you will know that they will taste very yummy. The whole tour has been an enjoyable one. I believed all the children has a fruitful day. Back to the apartment, the children are still very energetic. They started to play the few toys that I brought. Snap, fishing game..and Uno. The guys, on the other hand, were so tired and took a nap in the rooms until dinner time. The dinner at watercress was an interesting one. N
ot the usual steamboat that we had, the soup base was kinda 'herbal'. None
theless, it was healthy. As the kids have a long tour in the day without nap, they are all tired over dinner. On our last day, we decided to walk out to the market on our own instead of hopping on to the hotel shuttle. It was a relaxing and cool walk. The
Kea Farm-day market was not far from our hotel. We have some fruitful buys, such as a strawberry umbrella that I have been eyeing for, a couple of key chains for Ashley to give to her friends in carpe diem, a strawberry shortcake bag for Ashley etc... Yes, strawberry... Cameron's token is strawberries! Good for the girls...haha... but nothing much to buy for the boys. Vernon felt so left out... I believed Cieran will too, if he is older. (Phew! He doesn't understands yet) Our 4 days 3 nights had been well spent in Cameron. Though short, but we all have a FUN time!
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