BOH plantation Cameron Highlands: hours, tours and fees

BOH Tea Centre (Sungei Palas Garden)

Photo: Google Maps

Type

Tea manufacturer

Address

Brinchang, 39100 Brinchang, Pahang

Area

Kea Farm

Entry fee

Two unofficial sources agree there is no entrance fee for the Sungai Palas Tea Centre, though you pay for food, drink and shopping (BOH's own page gives tour prices but no admission fee). This is the first of the two.²ForeverVacation also says there is no entrance fee for the BOH Tea Centre, but guided tours or special experiences may cost extra.⁶BOH's Tea Tasting and Factory Tour starts at 9 AM and costs RM50 per person, with a minimum of 2 people.¹

Time to spend

BOH's Tea Tasting and Factory Tour at Sungei Palas lasts 1 hour.¹BOH's Tea Tasting, Factory Tour and Plantation Walk starts at 11 AM, lasts 2 hours and costs RM100 per person, with a minimum of 4 people.¹

Google rating

4.3 (6,520 reviews) on Google Maps, checked October 2026

On the map

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Opening hours on Google Maps, checked October 2026

Day	Hours
Monday	Closed
Tuesday	08:30–16:30
Wednesday	08:30–16:30
Thursday	08:30–16:30
Friday	08:30–16:30
Saturday	08:30–16:30
Sunday	08:30–16:30

What you can do at Sungai Palas

The BOH Tea Plantation at Sungai Palas (BOH spells it Sungei Palas) is a working tea garden with a visitor centre and café that BOH built in 2007³. Here’s what’s on site:

• Tea factory tours that show how BOH makes its teas. BOH says the factory tours are open¹.
• Tea tasting sessions that teach you how to appreciate tea³.
• The BOH Café, serving BOH teas with light bites and confectionery³. Its J.A.’s Balcony is a 20-foot¹ overhang that doubles as a viewing deck over the tea fields.
• Tristan’s Terrace, the newer café section, which seats 200 people³ and looks out over the plantation.
• An exhibition area on BOH’s history and the art of perfecting tea¹.
• The gift shop, for BOH tea souvenirs³.
• Photo spots against the tea fields, plus a hill on the plantation whose climb is worth it for the view⁴, according to Wikivoyage.

Opening hours and tour times

BOH lists its tea gardens as open Tuesday to Sunday, 8.30am to 4.30pm¹. Google Maps shows the same hours, with Monday closed⁵.

BOH runs three paid experiences at Sungai Palas, each at a set start time:

Experience	Starts	Lasts	Minimum group
Tea Tasting and Factory Tour	9 AM1	1 hour1	2 people1
Tea Tasting, Factory Tour and Plantation Walk	11 AM1	2 hours1	4 people1
Tea Tasting, Factory Tour and Afternoon Tea	3 PM1	1.5 hours1	Not stated

Is there an entrance fee at BOH Sungai Palas?

No. The travel guide cameron.com.my says there’s no entrance fee² for the tea centre, though you pay for food, drink and shopping. The tour company ForeverVacation agrees, adding that guided tours or special experiences may cost extra⁶.

BOH’s tour prices, from RM50 per person (checked October 2026), exclude 6% sales tax¹, so expect to pay a little more at the counter.

How do you get to the BOH Tea Plantation from Brinchang?

From Brinchang, follow the main road towards Kampung Raja, turn left onto the narrow hill road after the Equatorial Hotel⁴ and follow the signs.

1. 01

   Leave Brinchang towards Kampung Raja

   Follow the main road out of Brinchang towards Kampung Raja.

2. 02

   Turn left after the Equatorial Hotel

   Take the narrow hill road on the left just after the Equatorial Hotel.

3. 03

   Follow the signs uphill

   Follow the signs up the hill road, which is very narrow in places.

4. 04

   Reach the tea centre

   The estate sits just off Jalan Gunung Brinchang (Federal Route 432), a main route to Sungai Palas.

For a sense of distance, KAYAK puts Wan Alyasa Hotel in Brinchang 2.6 km⁷ from the plantation.

Getting there without a car

BOH itself says spots such as the tea plantations need transport¹, so sort out how you’ll get up the hill before you set off. Your options:

• Taxi: available, but BOH warns taxis can be expensive because of the hilly terrain¹.
• Oastel’s half-day Land Rover trip: Oastel says it visits the Mossy Forest boardwalk, the BOH Sungei Palas tea plantation and tea centre, and Raju’s Hill Strawberry Farm⁸.
• Discover Camerons’ half-day tour: the company says it takes in the Boh tea plantation, the Mossy Forest/Mount Brinchang and a strawberry farm⁹.

Prefer to book online before you arrive? Klook sells a half-day tour that pairs the Mossy Forest with a tea plantation. Its title doesn’t name the estate, so check the itinerary for Sungai Palas before you pay.

4 hours

Day tour

Cameron Highlands Half-Day Mossy Forest and Tea Plantation Tour

4.4 (42 reviews) on Klook, checked October 2026

From US$19.75

See dates on Klook

Coming up from KL just for the day? The bus to Tanah Rata takes about 4½ hours⁴, so read up on getting to Cameron Highlands for the day before you commit.

Other tea gardens to compare

Sungai Palas isn’t BOH’s biggest garden. BOH says its Habu garden is its largest and oldest, at over 465 hectares¹, and keeps the same hours: 8.30am to 4.30pm, Tuesday to Sunday¹⁰.

Tourism Pahang names BOH Tea and Bharat Tea¹¹ as the tea plantations best developed for visitors. Bharat sells its tea as Cameron Valley.

If Cameron Valley fits your route better, the Ringlet guide covers the other stops at that end of the plateau.

Who owns BOH, and is its tea grown here?

BOH belongs to BOH Plantations Sdn Bhd¹², and yes, it grows tea here: the Sungai Palas garden’s address is 39100 Brinchang, Cameron Highlands¹. The company in brief:

• Founded: in 1929 by J. A. Russell, a British-born businessman¹³.
• Run by: Caroline Russell¹³, whom Wikipedia lists as CEO and executive chair.
• Size: Wikipedia calls BOH the largest black tea manufacturer in Malaysia¹³.
• Sungai Palas: bought in the 1950s, after BOH’s then chairman, Tristan Russell³, saw its potential.

Nearby stops to pair with it

The estate sits just off the road to Gunung Brinchang¹, and Brinchang is the starting point for Gunung Brinchang, the Boh tea plantations and many farms⁴. These fit into the same outing:

• The Mossy Forest on Gunung Brinchang, which both half-day tours above add to the tea stop.
• Strawberry farms near Brinchang, such as Raju’s Hill on Oastel’s trip.
• The floral park, if you want flowers after the tea fields.
• Everything else on the list of what to do in Cameron Highlands.