Family Short Trip to Bukit Tinggi

No special occasion, no special celebration, no special guest... most probably me and my parents were looking for a break during the weekend and so, I suggested Colmar Tropicale Bukit Tinggi and right away my dad said yes! (usually he preferred to go somewhere without me).

Here we are!
I haven't been to Colmar Tropicale Bukit Tinggi since... I forgot. Everything seems the same, except it's not as happening as last time, some shop become more commercial. I remember last time there are souvenir shops, selling some unique item, then art room, for the tourist to do painting on plaster or what, French restaurant and so on, but now, it's non other than a mini size of fun fair. A bit disappointed about that, but I'm still very happy, because my dream is to travel to overseas with my parents.

The entrance

One of the prize if you score in the game

Used to be the French Restaurant, I'm not sure whether it was close during the day or it has ceased operation.

The tower, allow you to have an overall view of this area

View from the tower, very nice roof top, just that, the view will be better if there were more people and more happening on the street.

Another view from the tower, let's sing -

The hills are alive with the sound of music
With songs they have sung for a thousand years
The hills fill my heart with the sound of music
My heart wants to sing every song it hears

My heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds
that rise from the lake to the trees
My heart wants to sigh like a chime that flies
from a church on a breeze
To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls over
stones on its way
To sing through the night like a lark who is learning to pray

I go to the hills when my heart is lonely
I know I will hear what I've heard before
My heart will be blessed with the sound of music
And I'll sing once more

The weather is cooler there, so, we are able to see some beautiful flowers

Now they collect entrance fees (they do so previously?)
RM10 per person, including the entrance to Colmar Tropicale and Japanese Village and shutter to either places.

We had our lunch there, in the Italian restaurant, food quite authentic and nice, wonder how is the restaurant surviving throughout these year, because really, not many people visit to the place.

Got the carriage somemore

The black swans... so pretty

The white swan (there are actually 2), I still remember them... but are they the one that I saw before?

This swan very funny, we've been standing there for almost 15 minutes, wait for him/ her to stop scratching his/ her body so we could take a picture of him/ her nicely...but, till we left, he/ she was repeating the same action.

Next, we took shutter van to Japanese village, should have more photos but my camera is run out of battery (because this is a spontaneous trip, I also didn't realize I've not been charging my camera for quite a period of time).

Japanese village is still awesome, all building and plants are well maintain, hey people, we should really go support our local tourism...

p/s: the road to Bukit Tinggi is under construction (when I went there), so, there is an alternative road, a bit farther than the original one, as long as you are following the road sign, reaching there isn't an issue. Just that people with motion sickness need to get yourself prepared.

Toward the evening, on the way back, we turned in to the Bentong village for fruits, then Gohtong Jaya for dinner... what a pleasant day!