Escaping hot, humid and sweaty Penang for the cool breeze of the Carmon Highlands sounded like a great idea! But if you can choose between riding 3 hours on the highway, or 6 hours on the backroads.. what would you choose? That's right! The long way round it is. I couldn't get enough of the gorgeous greenery around there so apologies for the endless footage of the stepped terraces but they were just so beautiful!