Fri evening, I had tuition till about 8.30pm and then I went online to surf net and chat around. Then Saturday afternoon, after my mum came back from work, we went tomb sweeping. We took a cab to Mount Vernon and my sis's bf came along too. Then after praying, we had dinner at Bugis area before heading home. By the time we got home, it was about 6pm and as it was a warm day, I felt like fainting after reaching home.... Had an early night as I was going to Desaru with the religious group....
On Sun morning @ 730am, met the rest of the group at Lot 1 and we took the coach to Desaru. I met the Chua family on the LRT and we walked together. It was pretty cool for us in the sense that the customs were not too crowded when we went and came back. :) We got to JB at about 8 plus and then had breakfast at a coffee shop in Taman Tebaru. Then we took the coach all the way to Kota Tinggi. It was a pretty long journey, about 1.5 hours. Apple took photos of the breakfast but I did not... Anyway, let the photos do the rest of the "talking" for the trip....
Big signboards everywhere in the Desaru Fruit Farm... It was a nice big place but the weather was too hot. I think I turned "black" after this trip. There were lots of different fruits around and I took many pics but dun think wanna update them all here.
Apple & Me... Taken at the nice pathway formed by the passion fruit passage. Those coiling plants you see in this pic are the passion fruits... smell nice
At the end of the passageway, we reached the herb garden. I love this part... Pretty flowers everywhere, very nice surroundings... The signboard says "Welcome to Herbal Garden" in case it's not visible.
Some of the herbs seen along the way. This is the infamous Turmeric. A kind of spice.
We were trying to hide behind the tree and bushes... like those Indian dance... haha... TM (Apple's bf) took this photo for me...
Sort of "meseum" in the fruit farm. These are various types of pineapples....
These yellow boxes... contain bees... Basically they are there to help in the flower's pollenation. I bought a big bottle of natural honey... Tastes nice and not very sweet...
Me, posing in front of the little pineapple
More herbs... This smells very nice.. forgot the name...
The infamous "Jambu", aka water apple... very nice.. I bought some home coz we can't get these in Singapore... :P
Signboard that describes it all.....
See.... so colorful and so big.. They are sweet too....
When we walked towards the end of the farm, we saw lots of animals... Can't help cuddling these cute rabbits here... So nice... Reminds me of my chou chou at home... :D
See, so cute.... Tsk tsk
Eeek.... python, everyone ran away when this man took the python out....
This mother monkey is carrying her baby monkey... Got very agitated when people surround the cage and will start biting her baby.. I guess she's afraid we will "steal" her baby so we moved away pretty fast... There was another monkey chained nearby... took photos of it too...
Next, we had lunch - Sushi roll and fruits as well as a burger at the Desaru beach. Quite a nice place but as it was really warm and hard to find a place to sit, we went to a hut and sat there for lunch for 30 mins before moving on.... To the Ostrich farm... Note both the Fruit Farm and Ostrich Farm were quite far from each other and there were lots of travelling. Though both are in "siwan" - 4th turn and "wuwan" - 5th turn... but both turns are very far from each other... :P
huge ostrich with the wings opened
So tall and huge. Whole place full of ostrich, wah.... very "zhuang guan"
An ostrich on the floor - bathing... that's wat the owner told us... Interesting thing to note, those ostrich with grey fur, are females... those with black furs and red becks are males... the males are generally more "fierce"
An ostrich walking towards us while we were listening to the briefing from the owner... She's looking for food - corn... At first we were so scared coz very near ua, but in the end we still fed it, haha...
The ostrich farm owner
This ostrich very cute.. she walked towards the centre of the stage and sat down herself and allowed the little girl to climb up....
Then it suddenly stood up and had her "ass" facing us and pooped and peed.... The smell is overwhelming... gosh
Me feeding ostrich... Hee.... the little boy in yellow used to be my student. He took his PSLE last year and I'm no longer teaching him....
Me, "performing" a stunned by standing on 2 ostrich eggs without breaking them... Even big sized uncles won't break them by standing on them..
Holding the eggs... they are about 1.5kg each and 1 ostrich egg = 25 normal eggs.... The owner told us, the male ostrich are very strong.. 1 male can mate with 5-6 females daily... Wah, power lor...
The baby ostrichs... at 4 weeks.
These are at 2 weeks...
And finally, the artistic ostrich eggs... Very expensive though pretty....
Then we went back to JB and shopped at the new Jusco at the junction of Kota Tinggi. Bought a few stuffs from there as we had 1.5 hours to shop. Then we had had dinner near the customs at a vegeterian restaurant. It took a very long time to serve 8 dishes as there were only 1 cook and the place is pretty crowded with other customers. We took up 4 tables as there were 44 of us... The food is very very nice and something new for a change. :D
After dinner, the coach took us back to Singapore. Luckily there was no jam, so clearance was pretty fast and I got home at about 9.30pm... Packed the stuffs I bought and bathed, then off to bed I went. It's very tiring but fruitful trip....
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