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7-8 April 2007
As always, Cameron Highlands on non-peak seasons provided me with a serene
and quiet evening. I supposed the unhurried local people doing their things
plus the cool weather gave me the relaxed environment to kill a night with
ease.
It was pretty late in the evening when we went out for dinner. We finally had our dinner at the food-souvenir complex in Tanah Rata. Fried mee, fried rice and satay never tasted so good at 11 pm.
We adjourned to our apartment with some drinks and crackers to goof the remaining night off. Saved for Ivan and Rashid, we chilled out with cool beer and stout bought from Pasaraya Jimat, the neighborhood grocery store in Brinchang.
No, I didn’t had a good night sleep. Always hard as usual on first night on alien bed and pillow.
Never
less, we were ready for breakfast at Machik’s Illafiq Corner near the golf course. Nothing
fancy but then again eating plain nasi lemak with the subdued scenic golf
course around us somehow made the meal much tastier. Or it could be Machik’s
wholesome
charm and friendliness.
We returned to our rented apartment to pack up and get ready to head back to KL. But not before a stop-over at BOH Tea plantation for a cuppa of tea and some ang-moh-phor sightings. We needed some scenic photo-shoots anyway.
The extremely tight twisty mostly single lane to the Sg Pallas Boh Tea Centre was a blast to ride on.
In reality, the narrow road offered plenty of opportunity to skid off and sailing straight into the tea trees below. Thankfully, I don’t recall any car or bike ever skidded off the road. Loud horns helped and coincidentally my bike was recently fitted with a pair of air horns.
We had a fair share of tea-sipping and cakes munchings at the cool Boh Tea Cafe whist our eyes were trained at a one decent looking ang-moh-phor. The excellent settings of the Sg Pallas Tea Centre would be a waste without any group pictures taken for postings. The panarama view of the tea plantation was picture perfect at the time. Gunung Brinchang, visible from Boh Tea Plantation, is the highest peak in Penisular Malaysia accessible by road. Personally, I have yet to secure the guts to ride all the way up. Perhaps one day ...on a MX
It has been a blast riding around the cool mountain roads and sampling good food along the way.
Take a weekend off, get a ride or steal one and make the trip. As in the movie Wild Hogs, it pays to rev up your routine suburban lives with a freewheeling motorcycle trip and yeah .. a lot can happen on the road to nowhere ..just ask Rashid
