Before
picking strawberries at the Genting Strawberry Leisure Farm, we first visited the lavender farm located right beside it. Entrance fee is RM3 per adult and RM1 per child. Although the lavender farm is quite small, it is still worthwhile to visit if you are a nature or photography enthusiast. Children will get to explore and enjoy the beautiful surroundings.
A sea of purple..
If I am not mistaken, this is an extension of a larger lavender farm in Cameron Highlands. The lavender are planted in a large plot in the centre and then fenced off with white picket fence. No entry is allowed, so you just gotta snap photos from outside the fence line. Other types of flowers line the walls such as morning glory. You will also find lots of yellow daisies as well as honey bees here.
Once you have finished taking photos, there is a small gift shop at the front, selling lavender products. Oh by the way, when you walk through the entrance, you will smell lavender but it's definitely not from the flowers.
Morning glory
Yellow daisies and honey bees
My cute darling children... Baby C in her pink tutu skirt ;)
Fern in boots
Peach rose
After visiting the lavender garden, we
picked strawberries with the kids and then proceeded to the exit. It will probably take you about 20 minutes to get to the exit since you will go through all types of stalls as well as a vegetable/flower farm/shop and a mushroom farm.
Pine cone
They were selling honey here, and there was a small display with some honey bees.
Never seen tongkat ali root before, so I thought I'd take a photo. Tongkat ali, known as eurycoma longifolia is a type of medicinal plant.
We have a look around the vegetable and flower farm once we got there. I was hoping to find some herbs here which I can add to my herb garden, but they only had stevia. Lots of cactus, hydroponic vegetables, some other type of organic vegetables, passion fruit, crown daisy and even strawberry plants.
Cactus
Red rose
Lettuce, grown hydroponically
Crown daisy
Stevia, natural sweetener
Passion fruit
The final stop before exiting the place is the mushroom farm. Different varieties of mushrooms are grown in large canisters filled with a mixture of saw dust, paddy husk and lime. A pretty interesting insight for the children.
Black jelly mushroom
White oyster mushroom
Opening hours: 9.00am to 6.00pm daily. There is no entrance fee to all the other farms, except the lavender farm (RM3 for adults, RM1 for kids)
To get here, drive towards Gohtong Jaya signage, then when you arrive at the town, there will be signage leading towards "Genting Strawberry Leisure Farm."
Location: Genting Strawberry Leisure Farms, No.1, Lot 3707, Jalan Jati 2, Bandar Gohtong Jaya, 69000 Genting Highlands, Pahang Darul Makmur. Malaysia.
