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BOH Tea Centre at Sungai Palas Cameron

We were in Cameron on Chinese New Year’s eve and the first day of CNY. FL’s relatives live there and our whole family went up to celebrate CNY together with them. I can still remembered the weather was pretty hot during CNY and when we were in Cameron, it’s like in heaven, cool and fresh air and most importantly, you can really feel the CNY mood up there, a lot of fire crackers, cny songs from houses, the sound of mahjong, laughter….

We spent the whole night eating, drinking and ‘dry swimming’ (play mahjong lar. hehe…) and the next morning, we decided to go out yum cha (at the tea farm). Nobody wants to follow us out as they know it will be super jam (lot’s of ppl took the opportunity to go Cameron during the long holidays). They were right, the town is full or ppl!

There are a few tea farms in Cameron but the largest and the nicest one is the BOH tea farm. Of cos, it’s also more far away from town! It took us about 30 to 40 minutes to reach the entrance of the tea farm (there were a lot of cars) and took us another 15 minutes to get to the BOH tea farm. The road to the tea farm is pretty small and some parts only enough for 1 car to go thru.

here we are, at the Sungai Palas Boh Tea Farm

see, nice right? that’s the place for ppl to yum cha!!

We will need to climb up there. There are two ways to go up, one is the recommended way, hehe, nice road but a bit far, and the other way is the closer way, have to go thru the muddy road and also the tea farm. We decided to take the short cut, the mud road. 10 minutes later, after all the turning, jumping, climbing unequal stairs (some big, some high, so wide, some small), we’re there!!

Welcome to the BOH tea centre @ Sungai Palas

and the place to yum cha…

Before we go yum cha, we went to take a look at the little boh tea museum..

some history.. i didn’t really stop and read. hehe..

a tv room for ppl to watch the making of tea

and more tea related articles

the old rolling table for tea manufacture

this is the tool to cut tea leaves.. erm, i think so..

gunny sacks to transport tea leaves

and this is the old tea factory

the souvenir shop, i didn’t buy anything there, cos seems like we’re able to get everything from the supermarket, and cheaper too..

After a short visit at the museum and souvenir shop, we went to the yum cha place to have a cup of tea!! It quite nice to yum cha up there, with a cup of hot tea in your hand, you can enjoy the nice scenery + cool weather. NICE!!

Nice view!!

and more..

We were there for about 1 to 2 hours, chit chat, enjoying the view and the weather, then we went back. On our way down, we decided to take the recommended way, hehe, which is definitely nicer to walk. and guess what, it’s not that far also, as compared to the muddy road.. :p

on our way down

bye bye Boh tea centre!!

Tags: boh tea centre, cameron, CNY, sungai palas, Travel