The day of the trip was actually last saturday and I had to wake up at 5am and go to the designated area for the coach to pick us up and then go the Desaru. After arriving there, we went to one of the areas in Desaru to have our breakfast. I ate plain roti pratas and a few pieces of bubblegum for breakfast. I had to eat bubblegum because who knows when I can get the chance to go overseas and eat them again?
There was nothing much in the morning, after our lunch(the only course that was nice was the one with the fried mini lobster), we walked around our dining area to visit some of the small shops in the small town (:
They were baking 老婆饼，老公饼 and 豆沙饼 in the bakery of that small town. First time I tasted those fresh from the oven, and they were piping hot and crisp, instead of the limp texture that you find from the ones kept in a plastic container in the supermarket. They have many roadside fruit stalls too, here's a pic from one of the fruits stalls.
Guess these fruits shown below:
You guessed: Papayas
The answer: Mangoes
Yup these mangoes were practically the size of papayas and some of them were perhaps even larger. They were going for 9RM each, but my mum didn't buy one for me. But looking at them all lined up here, you can't help thinking about the juicy yellow flesh hidden under that cool green exterior.
Next up, we got to go the the OSTRICH FARM! It's the largest in Desaru and maybe one of the largest in Malaysia. There were ostrichs everywhere, in pens, walking about freely all over the place and eating their food, which comprised of wild veggies and crushed corn. I got to see a baby ostrich that was only one day old, as well as some many other baby ones that were a few weeks old.
Feeding the ostrichs were the most fun part, because at first I was pretty scared of those ostrichs crowding around me with their long long necks stretched out for a bit of the corn in my basket. And their eyes are so big and they're much bigger and taller than me >.<
Having seen the ostrichs up close and having stroked their long necks, we went out of the ostrich farm to have a taste of the ostrichs. It's roast ostrich satay time and my family bought 3 sticks of ostrich satay to eat.
Ostrich meat basically tastes like normal chicken meat, just that it's more tender and chewy, not as dead and limp like the chicken meat. Perhaps it's because the ostrichs had more place to run about in the farm...The satay was roasted just right and it tastes quite delicious paired with the curry peanut sauce.
After visiting the ostrich farm, we proceeded to the desaru fruits farm, where many different kinds of fruits were found. According to the workers harvesting the fruits, the fruits there are all totally organic because they did not use any kind of pesticide at all.
They had rambutans, lycees, durians, water apples(shui weng), mangoes, breadfruits and many many other types of fruit trees growing in that big piece of farmland. I was surprised to see that the baby durians actually look pretty cute hanging on those trees like little keychains xD
The last event of the day was FIREFLY VIEWING! We went to another small town and sat a boat to go into the swamp areas to see the fireflies. Along the way, we saw many small huts along the rivers as well, where Malay men fish under the pale light of the huts. But the fireflies can only be found deep inside the swamp area, where there were no light or human disturbances. I wish I could capture a picture of the fireflies but they cannot be captured on cameras at all. Basically, we can see lots and lots of light twinkling on the low trees of the swamp, and they looked like christmas tree lights. They were really beautiful and cute from the boat that we were on and the water's reflection make them appear even brighter. There were basically quite a lot of fireflies all along of the swamp area. They were like little lights draped on the trees. My tour guide said that that place has now became like one of the wonders of the world, because of the large number of fireflies residing there.
Sigh, humans are ironic and self-contradictory beings. We love the exploit and destroy the habitats of so many species of animals just for our own needs but yet we like to pay money to crowd onto a small boat or go to so called "backward" countries like Africa to see the animals that were made endangered and rare by us. Sometimes i cannot understand the things that we do and being just a girl of 16, I can't do much about it much except to seat back and laugh at everyone, me included.
But I went home dead beat but happy to see so many fireflies :D
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