Durians

Went to a durian orchard today. One of our friends called in the morning and asked us to go for a visit to the durian orchard. Since it was Sunday, my kids missed Sunday School. Bad mummy. The durian orchard is located in Sg. Klau, Pahang. We left KL about 11.00am. Had lunch at Bentong town in one of the so called food court - there were not many stalls around and we opt for nasi campur. Nasi campur for 3 adults and 2 kids (they had a chicken each only without rice) cost us almost RM40. What a rip off. Friend commented we should have gone for KFC instead, yum yum. After lunch off we went on our durian outing.

Before leaving for Sg.Klau, hubby called his friend there to keep some durians for us. When we reached there, he told us the basket of durians he kept for us was accidentally loaded onto the lorry by the lorryman who were taking durians off to the buyers. Sighhhhhhhhh. No durians. So dissapointed. All the way and no durians.

His friend then asked us to go the orchard to pick durians there. Yippeeeeee. Off we went to the orchard to look for durians. Can you see the amount of durians hanging from the tree. Those are not ripe yet

My kids and I were really enjoying ourselves looking for durians on the ground. I was also busy taking pictures. We walked around the orchard but there were not much durians on the ground. (durians will fall by its own once it is ripe. You never pluck a durian). The ripe ones were already picked up in the morning. Anyway, we didn’t go back empty handed, hubby’s friend managed to get us some durians to take back.

These are the flowers of the durian tree (pic on the right).
In the orchard I even managed to see a ‘pulasan’ tree. The fruit looks something like a rambutan. See the tree. Too bad the fruits were not ripe yet or else I will be plucking and eating them non stop. Hehehehe. They even have a few cocoa plants here and there.
'Pulasan Tree' See the fruits hanging!
Cocoa

On the way back we bought some ‘buah salak’ ……delicious. Here are some pics.
Really really enjoyed my outing today. Too bad I came back too late for my project. Durian cake and fruit cake. (wink, wink). Oh well, there’s always next week.