Land Rovers are awesome

I have seen some incredible Land Rover Defenders today.  The Cameron Highlands are awash with them, and the owners seem to feel a strong sense of place, with many of the doors including hand painted "CH"s.  The only vehicle I took a picture of was the one which had taken a side impact, with the owner remedying the damage by using a piece of string to hold the door as closed as was possible.  I have observed, although have no pictorial evidence to support, a "pimp my Defender" trend that is primarily manifested by the inclusion of Honda steering wheels within the vehicles.  Thinking about setting up an import business to bring over a few hundred of those thousands of Defenders the Army is about to sell off at 30 quid a time.....

We have survived the sun, and in Laura's case, the red head-eating snakes I have been warning her about.  Equally terrifying, if you were one of three young Chinese girls at the butterfly farm, were four inch wingspan butterflies.  They led to a lot of screaming and hiding in a father's shoulder.  One animal I have seen which wont survive long was a long-furred rabbit at the butterfly farm which has developed a taste for plastic hessian - I have never seen a rabbit arch its back to apply full force to something in order to consume it.

The rose garden was a lot more interesting than it sounds, and went on for about 400m of hillside.  The best flowers were actually not roses, but blue butterflies which hung from a trestle.  I am not convinced the name was right, but here's a picture

Here's the hillside:

We also found evidence to refute dad's claim that you cannot have many beehives together.  Perhaps you need to be ethnic Chinese to do so, but here's the scene we observed:

Steam boats, as previously noted, is a vessel - but one that cooks rather than floats.  They are not popular with Lauras.  Instead, our plan tomorrow is to have a drink here:

Then dinner with this view over the golf course:

And we've found ourselves reasonably solitary at most meals .... given we are in a mainly Muslim country during Ramadan.  The hotelier said the Muslim guests have dinner about 0400.

Tomorrow Laura is going to attempt to get me lost in the jungle.  I'll remind her of the red head eating snakes before that happens.