The vegetation begins to change gradually as you ascend the mountain - through the lower and upper dipterocarp forests that we commonly encounter in parks and reserves down in valleys and low lying areas that give way to the low montane forest where conifers thrive....
Weekday Stay at Smokehouse
Stay at Ye Olde Smokehouse, Fraser's Hill, during weekdays (weekdays constitutes Sunday - Thursday) and get a discounted rate.
Bukit Chini
Another interesting trek would be the Bukit Chini trail. Bukit Chini lies in the 'reserve' and is protected from loggers and plantation owners. There is an area deep in the jungle where the ancient sacred burial grounds of the Orang Jakuns are kept safe and away from prying eyes.
Maxwell Hill
The Japanese official made his residency on Maxwell Hill when Taiping was once again declared the administrative centre for Perak and Indonesia. He put the POWs to work on the building of the road. Today the narrow road winds painfully up the hill as it did when the road was opened in 1948, 3 years after the Japanese surrender.
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| Cameron Highlands | Bukit Chini | Fraser's Hill | Maxwell Hill | Bukit Jerai | Gunung Tahan | Penang Hill | |
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