Highlands park in deplorable state

Highlands park in deplorable state
Friday December 21, 2007

I RECENTLY visited Cameron Highlands with my students and their parents. I was amazed as well as a little sad to see the development in the area.

Gone are the views of hills which have been replaced by buildings. The weather too is not as cool as before.

However, the biggest disappointment to me was the park (opposite the hospital in Tanah Rata). The flowers were beautiful, but the condition of the park is terrible.

The Cameron Highlands is a popular tourism spot but the condition of the park is really uninviting.

This is what greeted us as we stepped into the park. The rubbish didn’t look recent but a few days old. It was shameful.

The play equipment were not in proper condition. The swings were broken, the strings to the other equipments were frail and looked like they could break if any child were to step on it.

There was no proper place to sit as the wooden benches and tables were all mouldy and dirty.

It is not doing “Visit Malaysia Year” any good if the condition of our parks are like that.

I wonder what our foreigner visitors would think it they walked through such a park. I saw a lot of foreigners up in Camerons that weekend. Please do something about it fast.


MICHELLE CHEAH,
Ipoh.