FLOWERS OF HOTEL EQUATORIAL, CAMERON HIGHLANDS

All the photographs of flowers here were taken in the compound of Hotel Equatorial, Cameron Highlands. We drove up to the highlands via the Simpang Pulai road and found that the time saved was approximately one and a half hours as compared to the journey via Tapah. The road was more pleasant to travel on, too, minus the scary ravines we saw when we travelled via Tapah. We had not been to Cameron Highlands for more than five years and were surprised to see the vast amount of farming being done compared to the past. Today quite a lot of flower and strawberry farms come right down to the edge of the road. In the past, one would have to go off the main road and drive into one of the narrow off-roads in order to visit a farm. Now the flower beds are almost next to the road. In the hotel we read in the newspapers that the water sources in the highlands were quite polluted and when we expressed our apprehension about drinking water from the tap in the hotel to the staff, we were assured that the hotel water was safe because it was filtered.