Durian Secrets: Of Durians and Kayaking

by FH2o on August 23, 2006

If there is any silver lining to the hot weather, it has to be durians which ripen best in the hot and dry weather. And as luck would have it, there are durians trees a plenty lining both banks of the river where I normally bring guests to kayak on the weekends. Because some of the trees are right next to the river, so when the durians fall when they ripen, they fall right into the river and luckily they float! And they are there for your picking when they drift to the river banks.

If you’re not feeling lucky; where we put it at Bengoh, there are always villagers coming out of the jungles with sack loads of durians that you can buy from. We bought one sack full of durians containing 8 large durians for RM40/- last Sunday. We normally do not like to bargain with these honest folks for their time and labour in collecting the durians from the jungles.

Also on the river trip we normally take a break at Danu, a bidayuh village where we have another chance to purchase durians if we didn’t buy or had not found any along the way. In the worst case scenario we are also sometimes able to buy them at the take-out at Kg Semadang before we head home.

So that’s how we get durians when we go kayaking and this is just the beginning of the durians season in Kuching; so durians kayaking anyone?

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Wuching August 23, 2006 at 7:34 pm

imagine the smell of farts on the way home!

QuaVadis August 23, 2006 at 9:02 pm

Kayaking and then durian..hmmm…exercise and then put on the calories..my kind of exercise ahahhahaha..

Wuching..fart still okay..imagine the burping :P

FH2O August 24, 2006 at 2:56 am

the sheer joy and pleasure from eating durians overrides all concerns about breaking wind and such! *burp* *phooot* ;)

The Moody Minstrel August 24, 2006 at 7:16 am

Talk about a natural fringe benefit!

Ask and you shall receive!

bibliobibuli August 24, 2006 at 8:43 pm

v. nice blog … amkes me want to try kayaking partic. if i can have a durian feast at the end of it!

how do you display your pictures so nicely - i’m jealous!

Robin August 24, 2006 at 8:58 pm

how can anyone get excited eating such smelly ugly fruits?

ooopss… run robin run

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