Cameron Highlands has a lot more to offer than just tea plantations despite its size. It is also a very good place to shop for fresh fruits, vegetables and plants. Shopping, however was very far from my mind that day . I wanted to see and explore.

My other highlight of this trip was a visit to the butterfly farm. Although I haven’t been to a butterfly farm before, I was a little skeptical nevertheless, thinking that the butterflies in the farm must be so small that it’s not worth my money for going in and ‘hunting’ them down myself. I was so wrong.

The whole place is like raining butterflies and they are huge! Some of them are as big as my palm and they are everywhere. On the ceiling, on the plants, on the floor, and the walls. We had to be careful when walking around so as not to accidentally step on one. These butterflies in the picture above were all over the place, ‘hanging’ on the plants around us, motionless. I was even in doubt whether they were just decorations to remind visitors that they are in a butterfly farm. I reached out and touched its wings gingerly and they didn’t even bother to fly away but just flapped its wings, like they were trying to tell me, ‘Hey, stop disturbing me. I’m as real as you‘. My ‘decoration’-theory just went down the drain.
Although I might add that I was a little disappointed because there aren’t many varieties of butterflies there. Most of them look more like giant moths than butterflies. To me butterflies are delicate and pretty (like the picture above), but moths are disgusting and scary (like the picture below). Ughh.
I guess these butterflies are used to having humans around that they seemed so unperturbed by our presence and nearness. We ‘ooh‘ed and ‘aah‘ed excitedly and they didn’t seem to notice nor did they fly away when we approached.
The whole place is built like a tropical farm with a lot of hanging wild orchids and jungle plants. Another highlight at this butterfly farm is its giant hibiscus in every color! They are as big as my head! I haven’t seen such huge hibiscus before. It never occurred to me that our national flower can be so beautiful.
Some other attractions at Cameron Highlands are vegetable and strawberry farms as well as flower nurseries. You can’t miss it. These farms are open for walk for visitors and you can buy vegetables fresh from the farms. The strawberries here are planted in pots in greenhouses and alleviated above the ground unlike in Germany where they are planted on the ground and in open fields. Well, there is the difference between these strawberries from greenhouses and those planted in open fields which have a slightly better aroma.
If you ever happened to go to Cameron Highlands, I would really recommend you to buy these sweet corns called ‘Pearl Sweet Corns’ or 珍珠玉米 from the markets. Unlike those normal plain yellow sweet corns, ‘Pearl Sweet Corns’ have some soft white corns in between. They are the sweetest and juiciest sweet corns that I’ve ever eaten and huge! Well, you can guess already, they are a tad expensive than normal sweet corns.

For more pictures of Cameron Highlands, I’ve updated them in my photo album. Have a nice week ahead everyone!