Ringlet in Cameron Highlands: tea, farms and getting there

What Ringlet is like

Ringlet is the town to pick if you want quiet rather than cafés and souvenir shops. BOH Tea describes it as a smaller town, mainly residential and agricultural, and recommends it for a quiet, peaceful retreat⁴.

Ringlet is one of the three main towns⁵ of Cameron Highlands, in the state of Pahang³, and sits close to the state border with Perak². Wikipedia calls it a hub of Malaysia’s vegetable farming and international flower farming², and the cool climate suits passion fruit, strawberries and grapefruit¹.

How high is Ringlet?

Ringlet sits at 1,100¹ to 1,135 m² above sea level; two Wikipedia pages give these slightly different figures. That’s below the 1,500 m Tourism Pahang quotes for the highlands as a whole, and below Brinchang, the highest of the three towns⁵.

The Lakehouse, just outside town, gives its own height as about 1,000 m⁶.

Things to do around Ringlet

Ringlet’s draws are tea gardens and farm country rather than sights in the town itself. Tourism Pahang names BOH and Bharat as the tea estates best developed for visitors⁵, and both have a Ringlet connection.

BOH Tea Garden Habu

BOH Tea Garden Habu is the main sight here, with the address 39000 Ringlet⁴. BOH says Habu, at over 465 hectares, is the largest and oldest of its tea gardens, and has its first tea factory, built in the 1930s⁷.

• Opening hours: 8.30am–4.30pm, Tuesday to Sunday⁴ (checked October 2026)
• Garden entrance to the tea centre: nearly 2 km⁷
• For BOH’s other big garden, see BOH’s better-known Sungai Palas estate.

Bharat tea plantation

The Bharat tea plantation lies on the Tanah Rata side, toward Ringlet³. Wikivoyage calls it the second-largest tea producer in Malaysia³.

Bertam Valley

Bertam Valley is a farming village in southern Cameron Highlands, with its entry at Ringlet⁸. For a drive through farm country, the road from Ringlet to Sungai Koyan is, in Wikivoyage’s words, a particularly picturesque mountain road, starting with countless greenhouses³.

The Lakehouse: afternoon tea, dinner and rooms

The Lakehouse is a Tudor-style hotel on a hill overlooking Sultan Abu Bakar Lake³, at 30th Mile Ringlet⁶. Afternoon tea is served daily on the Lakeview Terrace from 2pm to 6pm⁹.

Tea set	Price	Minimum
English High Tea Set	RM108 nett9 (checked October 2026)	at least 2 people9
Afternoon Tea Set	RM160 nett9	at least 2 people9

• Dinner: a steamboat or a classic English dinner¹⁰
• Cameron Bar: open 11am to 11pm¹⁰
• Rooms: the Lakehouse describes itself as a 19-room¹¹ hotel; its Deluxe Room is 32.2 sq m, for 2 adults and 1 child¹²
• Rates: Wikivoyage lists the Lakehouse from RM465³

If a cream tea is the main reason for your trip, the guide to scone spots in Cameron Highlands covers the rest of the plateau.

Staying in Ringlet, or nearby

Beyond the Lakehouse, this guide has no checked stays in Ringlet yet, so widen the search to the rest of the plateau:

• finding a good hotel in Cameron Highlands, by area and budget
• Cameron Highland homestay listings for a local, family-run stay
• Cameron Highlands apartment prices if you want a kitchen
• a camping site if you’re bringing a tent

How do you get to Ringlet?

You get to Ringlet by road, the only way into Cameron Highlands⁵: leave the expressway at Tapah and take Route 59³ up, or come in from the Pahang side through Bertam Valley. Ringlet is the first town on the Tapah road.

1. 01

   Leave the expressway at Tapah

   By car, exit the North-South Expressway at Tapah and take Route 59.

2. 02

   Climb the mountain road

   BOH Tea puts the climb at about 60 km, taking 1.5 to 2 hours.

3. 03

   Reach Ringlet

   Ringlet is the first town, about 1 hour 30 minutes up from Tapah.

By bus and train

• From Kuala Lumpur: buses leave Terminal Bersepadu Selatan for Tanah Rata, taking about 4½ hours and costing RM48³.
• From Singapore: overnight buses stop at Ringlet and the Lakehouse³ on their way to Tanah Rata.
• By train: the railway is at Tapah Road⁵, a separate town 10 km west of Tapah¹³, and a Regal bus¹⁴ runs between Tapah and Cameron Highlands.

Fares and departures for each route are on the page with bus fares and routes up from KL. Without your own car, a half-day tour such as Klook’s Cameron Highlands and Mossy Forest tour is one way to see the higher ground.

From Raub and Kuala Lipis

Ringlet is where the roads from Raub/Kuala Lipis and Tapah meet⁵. From Raub or Kuala Lipis you climb via Sungai Koyan¹ and enter the highlands through Bertam Valley.

Avoiding the crowds and the jams

Ringlet’s roads are quietest outside the holidays. Plan around these dates:

• High season: November to January⁷, especially around the holiday period, according to BOH Tea
• Year-end school holiday (Group B states): 5 to 31 December 2026¹⁵
• Off-peak months for avoiding crowds: June and September⁷