DESARU FRUIT FARM
Still thinking for a destination for your family holidays or semester break?
Been thinking about spending your holiday in Desaru, Johor?
Need an escape from the busy working life in the office and surrounded in natural?
Desaru Fruit farm would be a great choice to fulfill these questions!!! Located in Desaru, Johor which required only two hours drive from the modern and developing Singapore, this farm offers an eco-tour for visitors to get close to the nature.
The farm offers wide variety of attractions such as mini zoo, herb garden, vegetable farm and fruit farm. Farming and fruit picking are allowed and the farm also welcome every visitors to have some fun while petting and feeding the animals in their mini zoo like chickens, turkeys, rabbits and goat. Visitors also have the chance to enjoy fruit buffet and all-you-can eat durian fiesta during the durian season from June to August.
Besides that, this farm would awesome for an educational purpose trip too, as you will see school trips bringing their students here for an outdoor practical class to learn about farming and interact with small animals, providing these young children an experience that they could not try out at home.
Here, SGMYTRIPS would like to share some to-do-list for a recommendation on what you can do upon visiting Desaru Fruit Farm.
DESARU FRUIT FARM TO-DO-LIST
1. DESARU FRUIT FARM TOUR
During a visit to Desaru Fruit Farm, do join their agro educational trip offered by them. This educational trip provide a green impact and natural holiday while gaining some insight into their fruit farm to learn about fruits that we usual consume. This trip do provide a great chance for an escape from the hustle and bustle of modern city to breath some fresh air and get close to the environment.
Here, visitors would be bring on a tour to Desaru Fruit Farm’s fruit orchards where a lot of fruit trees of both seasonal and non-seasonal fruits are planted. This tour offer great experience for visitors to recognize, pick and taste those fresh fruits on the spot. There would be a tour guide available in the farm sharing their experiences and knowledge on these fruit species too. Besides, interesting paths such as passion fruit trail, orchard trail and dragon fruit trail are open for a visit too.
2. VEGETABLE GARDEN VISIT
A visit to vegetable farm and learn more about vegetable plantations, vegetable harvesting and vegetable growing would be a fun experience to tried out as vegetable farms are hard to be spotted in cities nowadays. There in Desaru Fruit Farm’s vegetable farm corner, there are a lot of vegetables such as siew pak choy, lady fingers, brinjals, long beans and cucumbers available. Visitors can even land their hands on the vegetable seedlings and harvesting too. This do provide an opportunity to educate young children not to waste food and appreciate the farmers’ work as vegetables planting is not an easy job.
3. HERBAL LEARNING IN THE HERBAL GARDEN
The Desaru Fruit Farm’s Herbal Garden is located next to the fishpond. There are various type of herbs consisted in the garden for visitors to touch and smell them, learning about their usage in everyday life including cooking and healing. Precious herbs such as peppermint, cat’s whiskers, lemongrass, basil leaves and roselle which could not be found easily in the city are available in the herb garden too.
4. LISTEN TO HONEY TALK AND TASTING
Located just a few steps from the Desaru Fruit farm’s Entrance, this honey exhibition hall educates every visitors who pay a visit there about honeys and bees. This knowledgeable tour offers interesting information on bee keeping, specifics of raw and processed honey and honey harvesting procedures. At the end of this talk, tasting of the unprocessed honey would be offered and this honey is safe for visitors with diabetics.
5. KOI FISH FEEDING
There is a beautiful artificial fish pond full with koi fish available in Desaru Fruit Farm’s park. Here, visitors can get a top view of the fish pond and the koi fishes on a bridge over the pond while having a quick rest before continuing on their visit of the fruit farm. However, visitors an only feed these koi fishes during their feeding time, under the fish food provided by the caretaker there.
6. MINI ZOO
Aimed for visitors to get close and interact with animals, Desaru Fruit Farm do offer a mini zoo featured with various range of animals from rabbits, chickens, goats, turkeys and many more. In the mini zoo, petting these adorable animals are allowed and this activity surely becoming the most favorite part of all animal lovers and young children. If lucky enough, visitors are able to have a look of ‘super model show’ by the fluffy mini rabbits.
7. ANIMAL FEEDING
Besides petting them, visitors can feed those animals in Desaru Fruit Farm’s Mini Zoo during their feeding time. Visitors can grab some bunches of fresh vegetables, corns and fruits to feed these animals too. Besides, there would be an animal caretaker available there to provide explanations on interesting facts of these animals and making sure that they do not harm the visitors.
8. GOAT BARN VISIT
Need not to travel far just for a look of the goats. There, in Desaru Fruit farm’s Mini Zoo, there would be a goat barn featured with many goats. Feedings are also encouraged and visitors can grab the goats’ favorite food such as fresh vegetable leaves and grass from the caretaker there. This activity would create a memorable experience for the visitors, especially young children as they are able to have close interactions with the goats.
9. UNDERSTAND BIO-FARMING AT AGRICULTURAL GALLERY
Situated in Desaru Fruit Farm’s hall, this agriculture gallery serves every visitors with informative and useful information to know about local agriculture practices and bio-farming, which create awareness about the importance of practicing them. While touring, visitors are able to see different graphic type posters with quick bits of information of agricultural industry, crops, trees and plants.
10. ENJOY FRUIT BUFFET
After touring around Desaru Fruit Farm under a hot day, visitors can refresh themselves by having a healthy fruit buffet offered by the farm owner. There, visitors can directly enjoy the fruits as they are already cut and sliced before they arrived the cafeteria. Wide variety of local fruits such as guava, pineapple, honeydew, dragon fruits, watermelon, banana, mangosteen and passion fruits would be provided in a generous amount too. For visitors who would like something sour, they may land their hands on those hand made pickled fruits served.
11. ALL-YOU-CAN EAT DURIAN BUFFET DURING DURIAN SEASON
What’s better than enjoying durian during the durian season ?
Yes, an all-you-can eat durian feast!!! Whenever the durian season hit (June, July, August), Desaru Fruit Farm would offer Tropical Fruit Fiesta with unlimited tropical fruits such as rambutans, mangosteens, drago fruits, mangoes and even durians. The owner generously provided this opportunity for visitors to try out these fruits and it could be a heaven for durian lover as they can eat their hearts out from the buffet with durian dishes available too.
12. SHOPPING IN MINI MART AND FRUIT SHOP
Never miss out buying some fresh local fruits to bring back home at Desaru Fruit Farm’s mini mart. These fresh fruits from the farm are provided in whole or readily cut and packaged, to ease visitors for a quick snack while heading home.
Besides buying fruits, visitors can also purchase local products such as bottled mature honey, Tongkat Ali (Malaysian Ginseng) Slices, bottled fruit juices and raw honey mask which benefits both health and skin too.
13. PAINTBALL BATTLE
This adrenaline junkies outdoor provided by Desaru Fruit Farm would totally make every visitors feels excited and also nervous. During this paintball war, players can have a chance to battle with their friends or family to emerge champion. This do test their shooting skills too. A full face mask, paintball gun,torso protector and paintball pallets would be provided after paying for the package. There would be a certificated paintball marshal on spot ensuring every players’ safety till the end of the game. Options of paintball target practice for young children would be provided upon request.
14. GO-KART RIDING
Unlike common go-kart ride, Desaru Fruit Farm’s go-kart ride is a real go-kart ride on rocky sand road, not on the tar road! Players need to make laps of five, tackling on the dirt course with bends and turns, and speed till the finishing line during the ride. Players can choose to challenge their own friends and family members or have a race with other players on track too,based on their preference. This track is able to accommodate a maximum of six players per race, hence players need to wait patiently in order to start a new ride if there are other players racing on the track.
15. HIGH ROPE ACTIVITY
This exciting activity surely would left every challenger with adrenaline rush as walking on this two-storey height’s high rope. If you are an active person who like to try something special, try Desaru Fruit Farm’s high rope walking. During the high rope walk, challengers needed to balance himself or herself and walk to the other end of it at its opposite side, with safety feature provided.
16. BBQ DINNER
Having a barbecue dinner in Desaru Fruit Farm would be amazing after a tiring day of farm tour and nature learning. Only using the freshest products from the farm, this barbecue dinner is guaranteed to be delicious and would crave for more.
DESARU FRUIT FARM ENTRANCE FEE
Adult: RM 26.50
Child (3-11 years old): RM21.20
Above rate include fruit farm tour and fruit packet.
DESARU FRUIT FARM LOCATION AND OTHER INFORMATION
Address: No 1, Sungai Cemaran, Desaru, 81930 Kota Tinggi, Johor Darul Takzim
Contact: +607-830 8017 / +607-822 3886 /+607-822 5886
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