All About Your Child

Previous Post was on Ostrich Farm in Desaru, a place I had the most fun in. Today, it is my Fruit Prince, Binbin’s paradise : Fruit Farm in Desaru!

You can see his eyes all bright and glittering when we landed on this Fruit Paradise. In my opinion, probably because Fruit Farm in Desaru is more well-known than the other 4 places that we went, therefore, locating it, without any guide, was the easiest.

Thus after waving goodbye to the ostriches, we set off to meet the fruits of the world immediately in Desaru Fruit Farm and reached there after 3pm.

As we were without any guide, we started to roam around aimlessly like a headless chicken. Then we heard a tour guide signalling a group of tourist to go inside an air-conditioned room to listen to a short talk on how honey is made.

We thought it might be a good way to begin with, since all of us wanted a break from the hot sun.

Keatkeat and Binbin learned alot from this simple talk about bees and honey. As for me, I finally understand that you do not just get honey from bees. You get royal jelly, bee pollen and propolis too. Different things to benefit different parts of our body.

Did you know that there is such a thing called Young Honey and Matured Honey too? Well, it was something new to me again. And did you know that you CANNOT USE HOT WATER on honey or store honey in the fridge? By doing so, you actually destroyed all the nutrients in the honey. You should store at a cool dry place. Honey that has no ‘extra ingredients’ added, will dissolve in room temperature water easily.

We liked what we heard and so after the talk, Allan and I walked forward to the counter and bought 150gm of Royal Jelly, a small bottle of Propolis and a bottle of Young Honey.

The nice lady chatted with us and gave us instructions on how to get to our next destination : Crocodile World in Desaru! Allan was so happy! But among so many places that we explored on our own, I must say that the route to get to Crocodile World was one of the TRICKIEST!!! Well, I will talk about that in a separate post altogether. Wait for it!

On top of that she also told us that we should purchase our Desaru Fruit Farm tour ticket from the counter at the main entrance. We actually missed that counter after we parked because this counter is the SAME CASHIER COUNTER AS their souvenir shop. I never expected that. *faint*

When we backtracked our steps, indeed there was a small faded piece of paper at the side of the counter that mentioned it. If anyone stood at the counter for payment, this piece of paper would be totally blocked by the thighs of the person. Now THAT explains why we missed it. *eyes rolled*

The ticket was actually a sticker! That’s pretty cool, I thought. We are supposed to keep this sticker until the end of the Fruit Farm tour to exchange for a FREE fruit box containing pieces/slices of different fruits. Nice! *smile*

Keatkeat: “I hope they put apple or banana in the fruit box. If not I jialat already.” (because he does not like any other fruits)

Binbin (the Fruit Prince): “Nevermind, you can give me, I can help you eat.”

*laugh*

Almost immediately after sticking the stickers onto our shirts, another staff led us to THIS:~

We sat on it and head off to our 1 hour tour…

SOME of the fruits/plants we saw: ~

Suddenly a passion fruit dropped to the ground the moment we reached the passion fruit trail. My Fruit Magnet ran over to pick it up IMMEDIATELY! Binbin: “Mummy, Mummy, I got it.”

The following second, every other kid in the same tour as us started searching the ground. *giggle*

They saw the fruit, held the fruit, smelled the fruit, and it would be complete if they had tasted the fruit as well. And they did! My boys drank fresh passion fruit juice for the very first time during a mini-break at a beautiful fish pond inside the Fruit Farm.

It is here that the children can purchase a pretty big packet of fish food for only RM2 and the loving Papa bought two packets. *smile*

After the break, we saw more fruits/plants and were surprised to know that a mini zoo trip was part of this fruit farm tour!

The kids and I went crazy snapping photos and buying food to feed the animals! *laugh* We REALLY like to be in such places. Though many hates the smell, we have no issues with that at all. *wink*
Oh no! Not going to talk about the mini-zoo today. It will be in the NEXT POST.

At the end of the tour by foot, we were led to that well decorated lorry once again and it brought us back to where we parked our car. The others who were with us on that lorry were told to go into that same air-con room as the one we went before we purchased the tour ticket/sticker, thus we did not follow suit.

Instead, we went to exchange for our 4 boxes of fruits. The moment Binbin had been waiting for!

There were Papaya, Watermelon, Mango, Banana, Jackfruit, Guava and Honeydew. They tasted so good that Allan decided to make a trip here once again the next day just before we head back to Singapore to buy some fruits home. Nice! *Thumbs Up*

Next Post : Mini Zoo in Desaru Fruit Farm

Fruit Farm in Desaru