Winter Garden Betong

Winter Garden Betong located about 20 mins drive away from Betong town.

Directions
After you clear Custom, drive straight and you will pass police station and Sri Betong Hotel on your right.
Go further until you reach Clock Tower roundabout. Take 9 o'clock and go straight. Follow the signboard of Piyamit Tunnel then Winter Garden. From here we drove to Piyamit Tunnel which located about 5 mins away (via short cut where road are steep likewise road to Gunung Brinchang of Cameron Highland). Will blog about it separately.

The entrance to the Winter Garden. We, the tourist need to pay RM3 per pax. Do you know Piyamit Tunnel is called Yau Yu Chun in Cantonese literally Friendship Village I while Winter Garden is the Friendship Village II?

The villagers here originated from Parti Komunis Malaya. Do you recall the Baling Talk between Tunku Abdul Rahman and Chin Peng that we study back in school? People in Friendship Village are Chin Peng followers who surrendered voluntary to Thai government and now become Thai citizen. 

 Winter Garden chalet 

Surrounded by jungle and since it located at near mountain the whole place is quite windy.

We notice along our journey to Winter Garden, there are many durian trees nearby. Upon inquired, we were told that their durian season is from July - September. This is the only place in Thailand where they practice picking the fruits after the fruit fall down by itself. It mean the durian here taste as good as Malaysia..yaayyy.  We are coming this weekend for durian fest..heheheee. Can't wait to try out their local fruit and Musang King  :):):)

Winter Garden
Friendship Village II
Betong, Thailand