The best activity for Desaru Coast, Malaysia: try fruits at Desaru Fruit Farm 🥭🍌🍈🍍
There are a few ways you can explore the farm – check the packages on site or online, but there’s usually no need for pre-booking.
We went for the 60-minute Jeep Riding Tour with a guide. He showed us all the tree species grown there – and on top of that, we got a huge fruit platter, a bottle of fresh dragon fruit juice and a fruit box to take with us!
We saw mangosteens, the last of the durians, pulasan, abiu (it was my first time seeing this fruit), papaya, custard apple, sour plum, red and yellow rambutans, bananas, jackfruits, passion fruit and others – such an amazing experience for an urban girl like me. I simply can’t express how delicious the ripe mangosteens, rambutans and pulasan were, having just been hanging on a tree. (All the fruit picking you see was allowed by our guide.)
Pulasan has definitely been a discovery of this trip to Malaysia – I first tried it a few days ago, and it’s been amazing to see it growing, too. This fruit rarely makes it out of Southeast Asia, and if you come anywhere you can see it, make sure to try it. It’s a relative of the rambutan and longan and is native to Southeast Asia. And you have to twist it to open it.
And I’ve just mentioned rambutans (I’m a big fan!)… but what about yellow rambutans? I didn’t even know they existed – they’re fully yellow on the outside when ripe! It’s a super rare version of rambutan with a different taste.
Desaru Fruit Farm also has outdoor and indoor zoos. Skip the indoor one and have a look at the outdoor one!
If you don’t have time for a tour, make sure to at least shop some freshest fruits there for a price incomparable to Europe.
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