On Wednesday, we took a nausea-inducing bus ride up to the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia, best known for growing tea and strawberries. We walked around in a light drizzle, and ate a delicious dinner at an Indian restaurant, Singh Chapati. We woke up early on Thursday for a full-day tour in which we rode on a sideways bench in the back of a 30-year old Land Rover over the bumpy terrain. We chatted with a British couple who we coincidentally ran into again in the Cameron Highlands and in Penang, hundreds of miles away. While the tour was convenient in that it provided transportation to a few interesting locations, we regretted not simply sightseeing on our own, since many of the stops were not so great. After seeing a museum that consisted of what seemed to be junk from someone’s attic with few descriptions, we visited a flower and cacti nursery, which was pleasant, if a little dull. We next went to see the tea fields, and the scenery was beautiful. We went for a nice walk through the mossy forest, then visited a butterfly center that had some really cool bugs, birds, and snakes. We ended the tour at a strawberry farm, and went to a different Indian restaurant for a dinner of tandoori chicken, garlic naan, daal, mint chutney, curry, and vegetable rice. This morning, we took another long bus ride to Buttersworth, where we caught a ferry to George Town, the multicultural food capital and former British colonial hub on the island of Penang. We are excited to spend the next three days exploring the city before heading to our final stop in Southeast Asia: Singapore.
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