Bukit Tinggi Rabbit Park

Ordinarily, Rabbit Park is not somewhere I would take the trouble to go to as I always had this impression that rabbits are smelly creatures. But being a mummy makes you do unusual things and fortunately though, our trip to the Rabbit Park in Bukit Tinggi did not turn out to be a smelly affair, to our(my sister and I) pleasant surprise, those little fury creatures did not smell bad AT ALL. Wow! Anyways, let me start step by step, i.e. how to get there:

From TTDI we drove into LDP heading towards Sg Buloh, kept right after the Penchala tollgate (heading toward Kepong) and just went on & on straight into Karak highway, there will be 1 more tollgate at Karak where you need to pay RM5 (well, i remember it used to be RM2! bloody hell!) and kept going pass the Genting Sempah stop on our right and also the old exit to Genting. After this point the view was magnificient, there were hills after rolling hills of vegetable farms, neatly laid out from the top of the hill right to the bottom (wish I had pictures of this!). Pass Janda Baik and Kampung Bukit Tinggi exit (Kampung Bukit Tinggi is on the left and Janda Baik is on the right side of the highway) and the next exit is Berjaya's Bukit Tinggi resort.

Our first stop was Rabbit Park, obviously. We paid RM3 per adult x 3 of us and since Nia is barely 11 mths, it was free for her. We were greeted by these the moment we set foot into the "paid" compound.

Hubz and Nia were enjoying themselves looking at the baby rabbits from newborn to 4 mths olds

Look at her getting giddy with delight looking at all the little fury creatures ...

Oh, a friend! Hello pretty in pink, how do you do?

Let me go daddy, I wanna follow the bunnies, she seem to be saying..
We thought this panda-eyed bunny was too pretty to miss:

Can we please take this one home, daddy? The other animals at the Rabbit Park.. Spotted deers and donkeys, they even have donkey rides for children, I'm not sure if you'd need to pay extra for it, I know they have it coz I saw a boy riding this white donkey in the picture

Moving on to the rest of Bukit Tinggi - this is at Colmar Tropicale, I spy with my little eye something with a long black neck..
Yes, what do you know? It's a black swan.. ain't it beautiful?
Up, close & personal with the black beauty
And of course, the white one.. it was such a breathtaking sight to behold abeit the small pool area for the 3 swans to share

I remember going up to Bukit Tinggi long time ago when they were just opened, I think the ticket to go up was more expensive then, now it's only RM10 per adult which is a little too much considering there's not much to do up there plus the prices of food are exorbitant. Hubz & my sister have never been up here so I thought although somewhat tacky, the whole French Village thing will be an experience for them. Originally we thought of doing the Japanese garden & tea house thing and grab a bite at the Japanese restaurant but we made the mistake of driving there straight which means, you got to park at the foot of the hill, climb an almost 45° steep hill for 300m (or so the sign says, but who knows if it's really 300m!) to get there. At first we thought what the hell, let's just do this, so we walked up half way of the visible part of the ascending path, then we noticed how dark the sky was and decided to not take the risk and turned back towards the car and drove over to Colmar Tropicale instead! Apparently the better way of getting up there is to get the shuttle service from the hotel at Colmar, well, I didn't know that, so maybe next time.