Cameron Highlands in Malaysia, is famous for two things – tea and strawberries. It’s hard to walk around Cameron Highlands without seeing strawberries. From strawberry milk shakes, strawberry ice cream, strawberry cakes, strawberry cushions, strawberry keychains, strawberry bags, strawberry t-shirts – you name it, Cameron Highlands got it.
After all, strawberries can only grow in cooler climates and being near the equator, the hot weather is not conducive for strawberries to grow unless it is high up the mountains like Cameron Highlands.
Even before reaching the heart of Cameron Highlands, we saw a number of strawberry-related shops. Strawberry chocolate fondue and a strawberry high tea at Avant Chocolate was a great choice after driving up from Ipoh to Cameron Highlands.
Picking strawberries at a Strawberry Farm
Strawberry farms were abundant in Cameron Highlands and a number of them allowed visitors to pick their own strawberries. My little girl wanted to pick strawberries. Of course, she didn’t understand that it costed much more than just buying a pack of strawberries. We went to one in the afternoon and it was a bad choice. There were hardly any good ones left after bus loads of tourists visited the farm in the morning!
The second farm we visited was just outside of Equatorial hotel where we stayed and it only allowed strawberry picking on Thursdays to Sundays. My little girl was again disappointed at that time, but it was truly a blessing because when we visited the farm again on Thursday morning, we got the best pick of strawberries since we were the first to arrive!
My girl enjoyed the experience of picking strawberries. She learned the proper way of picking strawberries i.e. plucking from the stem instead of tugging at the fruit. Check out our harvest below, half a kilogram of big, fat and juicy strawberries!
Accommodations
As it is not enough to visit Cameron Highlands in one day, it is best to stay overnight. Here is a list of accommodations in Cameron Highlands.
