I've always wondered where is Bukit Cheeding situated because of the labelling on BOH Tea's packaging (looks like that would lead to the next adventure, to find Bukit Chantik...). I remembered having googled it some years back and there were suppose to have some visitor center there but a recent check didn't turn up quite the same - in fact there isn't any info on their site on the subject of the place. Curious, and with a day's break last Wednesday, I went there with a friend using GPS in his car (Garmin). What an adventure it turned out to be as we were directed to the back of the estate with no link road at Jenjarom and later another maze of toll gates and link road, finally found Bukit Cheeding (by entering SK Bukit Cheeding!). The plantation was a few kilometers before the school and is discreetly tucked away inside an oil palm estate next to Sime Darby's. No price for guessing - it was just a dirt road leading into the estate through 2 guard houses but beside some worker's quarters, there weren't anything to see. The tea plants were planted under the shades of old oil palm trees and weren't as healthy looking like those at Sungei Palas. Nevertheless, the place still exudes an old colonial planter charm the moment one drive into the estate...
The buildings reminded me of my childhood days playing around old government buildings in Raub, and my school used to have windows and corridors like these (the old hospital too...).
The tea plants were still young and do not have the robust looking shades like those in Sungei Palas. The tea labelled as "Bukit Cheeding"is a very distinctive dark tea.
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