Located in Pontian, Johor, Sri Tanjung Leisure Farm is an open eco-farm that offers a golden opportunity for visitors to get close to the environment and stay away from the busy city life. This place is surely suitable for all natural and animal lovers, as there would be wide variety of wildlife, local tropical trees and plants available there.
Sri Tanjung Leisure Farm is used to be a fruit orchard that grew various types of fruits until requested by an association to reorganize the farm for tourism and educational purpose. So, besides fruits, the farm is now occupied with different animals and vegetables to be shown to the visitors.
This farm is suitable for both young children and adults, because this place do consist of large educational value as some younger generations nowadays may never seen how the fruits or plants grow and how does these wild or domestic animals mentioned in the encyclopedia look like. Some schools and kindergarten even apply for outdoor studies here to teach their students practically beside having some fun.
Well, wait no more, SGMYTRIPS would like to provide a To-Do-List for you whenever you are planning for a trip to Sri Tanjung Leisure Farm if you happened to pass by Pontian. We sincerely hope that this list would provide useful information to you during the planning process.
SRI TANJUNG LEISURE FARM TO-DO-LIST
1. MINI-TRUCK TOUR
A Mini-Truck Tour around Sri Tanjung Leisure Farm would be great whenever visitors decide to visit the farm, especially in a hot day. Along the tour, visitors can sight-seeing huge number of sheep glazing on the field, wide area of oil palm plantations, amazing greenish eco-farms, beautiful bird species and even cute domestic and wild animals. There would be an experienced tour guide explaining useful information of Sri Tanjung Leisure Farm during the tour too. So, be prepared and focus yourself to learn something new!
Mini-Truck Tour Timetable: 10:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 2:00pm, 3:00pm, 4:00pm, 5:00pm(last trip)
2. BE A CLOSE FRIEND TO THE SHEEP
In order to let every visitors to get close to the animals, Sri Tanjung Leisure Farm do provide fun experience of sheep feeding and sheep petting where visitors are allowed to feed and cuddle with these white fluffy sheep. There would be a tour guide available there too, explaining the breeding process of the sheep and also ensure the safety of every visitors. Besides, visitors can personally see the sheep’s milking process if they reach the farm early in the morning.
3. MINI ZOO VISIT
This probably would be the most popular spot for young children and animal lovers. Sri Tanjung Leisure Farm’s Mini Zoo is occupied with many adorable animals including swans, deer, horses, ostriches, hedgehog, peacock, rabbits, golden pheasant and tortoise. Besides interacting with these animals through their feeding time, visitors arr allowed to take memorable pictures with them too.
4. MINI VEGETABLE FARM FUN FARMING
As mentioned, Sri Tanjung Leisure Farm do occupied with vegetable farms for educational and tourism purpose, where school children and visitors can learn about natural. Experiences of sweet potato planting, digging, cooking and eating are offered so that visitors can enjoy the fun while learning.
5. HARVESTING GOLDEN RIPE CORN
Do you love the golden sweet corn?
Do you know how corns are planted and harvested?
Have you ever seen a corn ‘tree’ ?
In Sri Tanjung Leisure Farm, grab yourself a chance to insight the corn plantation and growth process demonstrated by the farmers there. We highly recommended that you should pay them a visit during the corn harvesting season, where you can gain an extra experience of picking these corns. The farmers at Sri Tanjung Leisure Farm’s Corn Field are generous enough to let their visitors to have a try of the corn picked, so, why not giving it a try ?
6. PINEAPPLE FARM GUIDE
PINEAPPLES…… PINEAPPLES EVERYWHERE…..
Be ready to be fascinated by an ultimate pineapple farm occupied with thousands of yellow pineapples in front of your eyes. Upon reaching Sri Tanjung Leisure Farm’s Pineapple Farm, you defiantly will smell the juicy tropically sweet pineapple aroma first before landing your first sight on any pineapple. This pineapple farm is becoming one of the highlight of the farm as it provide informative tour that educates every visitors about the growing process, type of soil suitable for pineapple planting and the harvesting process of these yellow spiky fruits.
7. OIL PALM PLANTATION TOUR
Take an advantage to learn about cultivate oil palms during the mini-truck tour. Here, visitors would be able to know the oil palm plantation process and appreciate the workers’ hard work after the visit, since growing high quality oil palms is not an easy job and requires lots of time and energy to look after them before the harvesting.
8. BACK TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Sri Tanjung Leisure Farm is dedicated to provide demonstrations on how does this stone mill works too, instead of just merely showing it to the visitors. Besides, visitors can even have a try to operate this stone mill using the correct ways under the guide of the staff working there. It could be a great experience to be tried out as this good old days’ stone mills are getting lesser and lesser after the technology advancement during these few decades.
9. SEASONAL FRUITS AND FRESH GOAT MILK TASTING
Don’t ever missed out trying Sri Tanjung Leisure Farm’s home-produced fresh goat milk and fresh local seasonal fruits such as durian, jackfruit, rambutan and mangosteen available in the farm during the fruit season. This simple yet enjoyable food tasting would totally be every visitors’ favorite during their visit to the farm.
*All photos credited to JOHORNOW
Location:
Address: Ptd 5577, Parit Lan, Kayu Ara Pasong, 82010 Pontian, Johor.
Contact: +6016 – 708 4860
Email:
weefong@stl-farm.com.my
aiboon@stl-farm.com.my
enquiry@stl-farm.com.my
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