Green View Garden – First Stop With Free Entry
If you need to take a breather and stretch out your legs on the way up to Cameron Highlands, Green View Garden is not a bad place to stop even if it’s not as pretty as it used to be.
Elders and those with mobility issues will appreciate how much more level Green View Garden is compared to other attractions in the highlands. But the major highlight of this place is that it’s free to visit.
Entry Fees
This is one of the few attractions in Cameron Highlands that doesn’t charge entrance fees. And it’s keeping it that way for now.
There’s a modest open-air car park in front of their main visitor building. This is free to use.
Because of this, it is a lot cheaper to visit Green View Garden than Hobbitoon Village. The latter is also on the way to Cameron Highlands if you’re coming up from Ipoh using the newer Simpang Pulai route.
What Can You Buy Here
For those that enjoy shopping, there’s also quite a lot to browse through at Green View Garden.
By the entrance to the main visitor building is a small fruit and vegetable stall. As well as a big sign out in front that says no outside food or drinks allowed or they will impose a RM50 fine.
The visitor center has lots of different goods for sale – some from local brands and others, in-house products. You can buy toys, chocolates and snacks of interesting flavors. There is also a shelf of selfcare products and aroma oils.
Food Sold Here
But if you walk straight ahead, this is where you can order their in-house pastries, ice cream, cakes, and mains with Japanese influence.
There’s a spacious and attractive seating section to the side of the counter where you can enjoy your purchases. Besides this, there is a Japanese styled café with the same menu.
The food is not terrible in our opinion, just overpriced. We quite like their chocolate and lavender scones.
Note: On weekends, they may open another seating section together with a larger shop.
What The Garden Is Like
Just past this seating area are the gardens. These are relatively flat and hence, more walkable compared to other more hilly attractions in the highlands. The central section has changed from a rabbit enclosure to a children’s vehicle pen to a sale section for potted strawberry plants.
If you like taking photos, there are many manmade and colorful structures throughout the garden that are made for this reason.
The lack of maintenance is starting to show through after a few years of operation though. The colors of various structures inside the gardens have started to fade, the fish banners outside the Japanese seating area have been taken down. Their plastic boats have degraded and there are signs of overgrown plants and weeds poking through.
Animals You Can See Here
Some small glass tanks with hedgehogs are a recent addition to the animals they rear inside the gardens. They still have rabbits but fewer. The ducks still have their same enclosure too, but the chickens are now free to roam in the gardens along with the goats.
The free-roaming animals look happy enough. And the rabbits have a lot of space but can’t say the same for the hedgehogs or ducks. It’s unfortunate that this place also feels the need to attract visitors by using animals.
Like Agro Market, they do have an aviary as well, but since it doesn’t have greenery in it or high ceilings, it doesn’t look as impressive.
