Trip to a fruit farm
Last weekend my family visited a fruit farm. We bought discounted tickets at a convention centre a few months prior and finally found time to make the journey. Every weekend before that involved going back to hometown or servicing the cars, so it was a nice break from the monotony. I also decided to bring a compact camera for taking photos (a Lumix FTC-25, nothing to write home about). I hadn’t got a chance to really take a picture with this camera in a while, so I was expecting some nice photos.
The place is around 2 hours away from our home. This meant that we had to go out quite early in the morning. At least as early as we could have, we went out at 8 a.m.
The place itself was fine. The parking has a small fee, understandable. The place seems to be recently opened, as evident of the clean toilets. The scenery near the parking is a valley where they mostly grow guava trees. The guava fruits were wrapped in plastic to make sure no pest would eat the fruit before it’s harvested.
The place is too big to be on foot only, so they provide a tram service (well, it’s a couple carts that’s hooked up to a tractor, but hey). It’s a unique experience going through the fruit farm in the tram while enjoying the scenery there.
The first stop of the tram is a checkpoint. There’s a cafe, some nice photo spots and also an animal farm. A decorated walkway that’s shaded by the trees connects all of them together. We walked through the walkway before going to the animal farm. There’s an additional fee there but it’s not expensive. The animal farm is the usual kind. Iguanas, hamsters, snakes. Also some chickens, goats, raccoons and hamsters. It’s quite nice touching and feeding all the animals there.
Next stop was the deer enclosure. There’s also ostrichs there. We gave them longbeans to snack on. They quite like it. Um that’s it really. Good stop, but I can’t write anything else :P
Then we went to a lake. A red clock tower can be seen near it, centering a roundabout. The activities there are boat related, offering canoeing, paddling or speedboat ride. We went with the speedboat. The ride lasted for around 15 minutes. We circled the lake for about 4 times, though it was nerve wracking seeing the water line get ever so close to the boat when it turns.
We ended the ride at a duck pond that’s in an enclosure. Umm that’s how I would describe it. The ducks really want bread, I can give you that. And that’s how I know ducks have sharp nails at the end of their webbed feet. There was also a place to shoot paintball bullets (I don’t know how to explain this either)
Another tram ride and we’re almost at the end of our trip. The last stop was a place to sort of eat and lounge at. There’s also a house replica there where they showcase old appliances like how it is from back then (though I forgot which time period they said). The place to eat wasn’t a building or on a concrete platform. Just some plastic table and chairs on gravel. Reminds me of wedding caterings.
There’s also a honey stand from across the road. They have multitude of honey, though not from other bees. More like flavoured honey. There’s one with ginger that doesn’t taste strongly of ginger, there’s garlic which is strong, and another with a herb that tastes very bitter. It took a good 5 minutes for the bitterness to wash away from my mouth.
The last tram ride brings us back to the parking spot. We were quite thirsty by that point so we went to the convenience store to buy some drinks. Apparently they sell local produce and products. Just a tad bit more expensive than what you could get from a supermarket, but it’s not like it’s robbing us with that pricing. Plus, support local produce? That’s enough justification really.
It was a pretty good trip overall. Quite a nice way to spend the time.
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