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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