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Fraser's Hill Debut

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I went to Fraser's Hill for the first time (ever!) on the first weekend of February with 3 other friends. Fraser's Hill is a popular hill station (approximately 2 hrs from KL) named after Scotsman James Fraser who discovered tin deposits in these parts and operated a gambling + opium den for workers. He disappeared mysteriously and when CJ Ferguson, Bishop of Singapore, failed to find him, he proposed turning the area into a hill station as a cool retreat from the warm lowlands. Today, Fraser's Hill is a nature reserve area dotted with colonial bungalows and several inns.    We took the route from KL > Rawang > Kuala Kubu Bharu > Fraser's Hill. Previously there was only 1 road to access Fraser's Hill and the direction is open in opposite directions every alternate hour, ie you can only go up during odd hours and go down during even hours. However now there's a road from the top to the bottom, so going up/down was a one way affair. We headed to Kua