Durian Hunting

Dry season that stretch from May to October has already started and we can see lots of typical summer fruits sold everywhere. And for Durian, their spikes and smell are everywhere in this town since two weeks ago.

An unexpected hunting. We were lucky to get a chance to join a small family group went for Durian hunting last weekend. We were buying lunch at the canteen next to Mr.Chai's monastery and decided just to jump right in with them to Blalau, about 45 minutes drive from LLG.

I didn't actually understand when they said they were going for Durian hunting. I thought they just going to visit some market then look for the best durian, but this trip was more interesting than that.
We drove through some rubber plantations, tall grasses and small roads only fit for one car, but the view are magnificent even under this thick heavy humid hot weather (God bless car air-con).

After driving (and lost twice) for almost an hour, we finally reach a small village, here are some photos. See.. it's clean and so quite, even people are still have their bath in the creek together with their ducks.

After a short rest then we went in to the small wood behind the village. We met the owner at his small hut and kind of stay there for a while and then.. BOOM!! and everyone cheer.. one of the boys run deeper to the wood then came back with one durian on each hand.
Now I get what they said durian hunting.  We were suppose to sit there waiting the durian to fall down from the tree and eat them directly. But I still think that the process were dangerous. Imagine a mature durian tree can reach, what.. , maybe more than 25m high, what if a durian feel down and hit your head while you picking the fruit!

Anyway,we all had fun. I only eat three fruits, better stop before get nausea and vomiting, right? We stayed there until we get more than 10 durians. Some photos here while we were waiting for durian...

 

Above are some photos of the rubber trees around the wood and the cut on the tree's skin to get the rubber sap.

I love what I see on the way (lots of trees and tall grass), crazy about the timber houses in the village, and the experience of waiting durian fall down from the trees are priceless.