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18 Apr 2024
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Description
My name is Troji and I was born and bred here in Cameron Highlands.
Just like you, I love to travel and meet new people from all around the world.
After living around Malaysia New Zealand and in London I decided to open my own hostel in my hometown.
This all started because I am very passionate about sharing my hometown with you.
It is surrounded by forest and lush landscapes. For nature lovers, you will definitely love this!
I hope you will enjoy your stay here and I also hope to meet you!
I love taking Picture, listen GOOD music, and awesome movies
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
My guest house and flower farms are located in an old and traditional Malaysian village called Kampung Raja.
Maybe you are already aware of it but thanks to all the Indians and Chinese people who came to Malaysia back in the day, we now experience a big cultural diversity in this country. Malaysia's population consists of 68 % Malay people, 23 % Chinese people and 7 % Indian people.
In Kampung Raja you can find all of these nationalities living and working together, creating a buzzing and interesting mix you can hardly experience anywhere else.
Here, we still follow many traditions like moon cake festival, dragon boat festival, Chinese New Year and many more. So volunteers have the unique opportunity to be part of all the cultural differences and join in for all the fun festivals that happen like all the time.
Last but not least I think that cultural exchange also includes learning and getting to know about local nature.
The Cameron Highlands has one of the best natural sites of Malaysia to offer. With massive trees, ancient forests and many tropical plants, volunteers can learn so much about local nature and our environment.
Help
My guest house is set inside my parents flowers farm and I am currently also building another guest house.
So there are a couple of things I need help with:
1. Maintaining the Guesthouse
The Guesthouse is my main priority and you will most likely spend most of your time here. Helping here includes basic maintenance tasks such as hoovering and mopping the floor, help guests with check-in and -out, remove dirty bed sheets and put new ones. It's a pretty simple and straight forward but thanks to our local Chinese-Malay employees, who always puts on the best music it will never get boring and is always a fun thing to do.
Like I have mentioned above, just like you I am a traveler, which means I have - just like you - seen many hostels from inside. For me it has always been interesting to see how different hostels choose their interior design and what they do to make guests feel comfortable. However, owning my own hostel has shown me so many more things and taught me to really look deep into it. If you are interested I would like to show you what it means to run a hostel, how certain things can affect the comfortability of the guests and who knows.. maybe you will be opening your own hostel one day.
2. On the flower farms
We have two flower farms on which we grow Gerberas. Those flowers will be send all over Malaysia as well as all the way down to Singapore. We have four local guys working full-time on the flower farms and they are always happy to have you around and to learn about you and your travels.
Me and my family are very proud of our flower farms since this is the fourth generation working on it. Because of that we have great knowledge about conventional farming and flower production. If you are interested to learn more about where flowers come from, what needs to be done to let them grow in a good and healthy way, how they need to be treated and what needs to be done to ship them to many many stores all over the country, then this is exactly the right place for you. We would be delighted to teach you everything we know about our farms and what comes along with it.
As you see there are many different areas I need help with and I am happy to tell you that every day will be different and diverse so you will certainly not get bored.
I would be more than happy to receive many potential volunteers. So if all that sounds good to you - do not hesitate and come send your request. I would love to meet you.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Chinese (Mandarin): Fluent
Chinese (Cantonese): FluentThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
single room, dorm room or boss room
What else ...
On your days off you can go on plenty of incredible jungle hikes in and around the area my guest house is located in.
Also you have the unique chance to visit plenty of authentic farms and learn from local farmers.
There are plenty of tea plantations in the area that are a must visit when you are here.
Food situation:
Usually I will provide you with all the food for the day. So you can expect breakfast, lunch and dinner in exchange for your help.
However, sometimes, due to my job I might be traveling around, meeting business partners etc..
This normally happens in the evening. On these days (of course I will tell you as soon as I know) I would kindly like to ask you to prepare / organize your own dinner, since I won't be able to provide it for you.
So breakfast and lunch will still be included, but dinner might need to be taken care of by yourself.
Please note that you will have to organize your own food on your off days - But don't worry, there are plenty of super delicious and super cheap restaurants in walking distance. If you prefer cooking for yourself - no problem! Of course you can use my kitchen, spices and ingredients like oil etc.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
Space for parking camper vans
This host can provide space for campervans.
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day, or anytimes needed
Feedback (34)
WARNING!! For all the host do not ignore when my friends sent request, if not you will regret for hard working guys!
Many thanks again for all the beautiful help, see you guys… read more
Right from the off Troji was so welcoming and easy going. The work was so rewarding and varied which kept it interesting. Every two days we would package flowers in the morning with the workers - such a nice way to start… read more
Troji and his family welcomed us as we are relatives and we felt home from the first to the last day.
During our stay, Troji was away 10 days and our main mission was to manage his guesthouse. Even if it's a small house, it can be… read more
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WARNING!! For all the host do not ignore when my friends sent request, if not you will regret for hard working guys!
Many thanks again for all the beautiful help, see you guys… read more
Right from the off Troji was so welcoming and easy going. The work was so rewarding and varied which kept it interesting. Every two days we would package flowers in the morning with the workers - such a nice way to start… read more
Troji and his family welcomed us as we are relatives and we felt home from the first to the last day.
During our stay, Troji was away 10 days and our main mission was to manage his guesthouse. Even if it's a small house, it can be… read more
Me and my family was super happy to having both of them during the staying,… read more
So I can recommend this volunteering to everyone!
Thank… read more
Awesome dude
During the stay he helped us on the construction site sanding and cutting some wood for furniture, even flower farm helping with the packaging and also in the guesthouse. We are so lucky to have opportunity to try some of delicious… read more
I've spent time with them, learn a lot about Malaysian culture and taste so many typical new dishes and his fabulous cheese bread!
During those days I've helped cleaning the guesthouse, packaging the flowers and in the construction field of… read more
He always helpful and always willing to learn new things, we have good time working in the new construction work, and cook food for us sometimes. Thanks again for everything and hope to see you again.
Luca is a super nice and friendly person, me and my family was happy to having him in the house around, helping with the wood work and exchange food skills. we will see you again
Troji introduce and welcome me to his family and I have been treated like one of the them.
The guest house is located near the flower farm so every morning i could enjoy a delightful and colourful… read more
He is a clam and easy going person, thanks a lot for the time spending with us in the flower farm with transposing the flower to all the flower shop, packing flowers, and at new construction site, always he always try his best do do the best work for you.
We all love you… read more
I have gotten to known them as anticipated and fun workers, who engaged in several different tasks
such as working in and around my guesthouse, helping on my flower farm as well as on a construction side
for my new project.
About Mike:
Thank you Mike for coming over to help me with my… read more
First of all, location is really amazing! Cameron Highlands is a great place, with awesome hike trials, stunning wievs and pleasant weather (22 degrees is pretty cool after heat in other parts of SE Asia!). Our job was really cool and every… read more
He always followed every instruction, proving me I can let him work… read more
The accommodations are so nice and clean, you can tell the place was created with a whole lot of TLC.
There is a lot going on and a lot to do, from the family flower business to a whole new… read more
And we become good friend as well. can't wait to see you guys again and having you guys here.
HVALA~
Was very nice to host Jorge in house, super easy going person.
highly recommended with other lovely host.
see you Jorge
also we do spending very great time together went to hiking.
Hope we will meet again one day!
Many Thanks
love you :D
He and his family feed us so much. All the members of the family were rather sweet. I loved that you felt creativity everywhere around his family. His brother's wife is a great book artist and I was so much inspired by her and… read more
We spent a week with Troji and his family. Our experience was PERFERT! Troji is a great person, fun, very easy going, hard worker, he makes sure that every moment is special...he loves food like ourself (his mum is great cook) we were so lucky to try different dishes...(you should try his kaya is delicious)
He has a… read more
Troji was not there but his brother Tokku and his wife Norico looked after us very well. We ate some lovely food together and shared some funny moments too!
The work was very easy and the hostel was very nice. I… read more
I told you, the most beautiful thing is that is a family business but you and walk the workers are… read more
hope can see you guys again.
It's a very quite place, in the middle of Cameron Highlands... although there are other houses around the hostel, the place is very private and to seems to be in a secret garden.
Troji take us out to eat every day, lunch and dinner, everytime delicious!!
First two… read more
I stayed only for around 2 weeks and I really enjoyed my stay! You will be surrounded by a lovely and caring family who is willing to spend a lot of time with you. It doesn`t matter if you are just arrived or if you are already staying there for a while, they will welcome you immediately to their family.… read more
will see you somewhere! and cook some delicious food for me :D
He teach me many skill about coffee ,hope to see you again and we can roast coffee beans together and drink coffee together, was so much fun.
I really enjoyed the pace of life there, from the quiet early mornings to the boisterous family dinners.… read more
see you again my friend!
hope we can having you again and hope to see you somewhere again.
me and my family really enjoy stay with him all the day, and hope can see you soon. Door always open for you, be my guest next time!
I actually spent least time with Troji than his family because the reason I was there was because he was away. But the 2 weeks or so I spent with him was really special. He was very welcoming and talkative, We had many good laughs. He introduce me to so much good food and taught me a lot about Malaysia.
The Family:
I spent… read more
was so pleasure and greatful to having Marcin in my house, he will do everything prefect for you.
A huge HUG from cameron's family. hope to see you soon.
非常感謝你!!
