We made it to a second tea plantation in the Cameron Highlands - Cameron Valley Tea.

This Plantation runs along the main road which winds through the Cameron Highlands. You have a great view of the Plantation from the road. This also mean that their tea room is right at the main road.

Parking was a nightmare. Our driver parked behind his "friend," and then moved the car up the highway after he had gotten us oriented to this Plantation.

Looking up at the Tea Room. 

This Plantation was an entirely different experience than the BOH Plantation. Cameron Valley Tea don't have a Tea Processing Tour like BOH does. Instead by paying the Entrance fee we were able to wander through Cameron Valley Tea Plantation and get up close to the tea plants.

It was $3 RG ($1 SG/CAD) to walk. For a few more dollars, there is a shuttle that you can ride down to the bottom and back up again. There were a lot of stairs. We wanted a little walk, so be only paid the $3. In hindsight we should have paid the extra so we could have just taken the shuttle back up.

The Plantation's shuttle bus.

We noticed the similarities with the BOH plantation. The plants look similar in size and age. They are trimmed flat across at about waist height. There are paths between the rows so that the leaves can be harvested. The breaks between the rows look all wavy depending on how each plant's branches have grown, but you can tell that each row was planted in straight lines. The lands were steep hillsides, rounded at the top. The combination of the rolling hills and the appearance of the tea bushes makes the landscape look so soft. We were happy to have experience the two different plantations though. They both had a very different feel to them, and we learned different things at each place.

One of the things we learned at Cameron Tea was that the brown sections on the hills are where the bushes have just been pruned - an important step in keeping the plants healthy and producing.  

Walking down through the Tea Plantation. It's steeper than it looks. 

Despite being on the main road, it was very peaceful at this Plantation. The hillside is so steep that as soon as you begin to move down the slope you lose the car noise. At the bottom, the stream has been funnelled in to a small waterfall and the sound dampens any extra sounds. There was a Food Truck at the bottom serving tea and snacks, but we chose to truck back up the hill to the main tea room where we enjoyed the view and the cool breeze coming into the open patio. In addition to the tea plants we noticed a few pockets of flowering bushes along the road down and near the stream - including tall Poinsettias growing their natural in tree form.

We noticed the Poinsettias growing as trees beside the road. 

After our hard hike back up the hill, we enjoyed a delightful cup of tea on the open air patio over looking the Plantation. The patio was packed when we ordered our tea, but a few minutes of watchful waiting snagged us a corner table right at the edge. Here we were out of the sun, but got to enjoy the fabulous view and nice breeze. I loved the tea here and picked up out a tin of loose leaf to take home.

This cheery mural greeted us just outside the Tea Room. 

We, of course, hit up the Tea Shop here too. Cameron Valley Tea (No. 54) was the first package of tea I opened at home. It's sadly getting pretty low after a month. I am excited though to get to move onto my BOH Garden Tea.

Just my tea purchases. Wish I had a picture of what the 3 of us bought all together in the Highlands.