Excursion trip to 'rural' Singapore

[Justikanz]

I brought my family out for a tour of 'rural' Singapore a couple of weekends back... I told them since I was free, I will bring them to some places thay had never been to and will probably not think about going to anyway... In the end, they enjoyed the trip and my parents don't mind going back for a second time the next weekend... Which was when the pictures were taken...

I started at Qian Hu Fish Farm... where try as I might, they refused to have their legs sucked by the garras...



In the end I sneaked up on a stranger and asked for her to volunteer her legs for this photo...


My family enjoyed this first stop, which my mum termed 'an aquatic zoo'... They were fasinated and cannot understand that the small red and white shrimps that can never grow big cost so much, complaining why would anyone pay more for white when red is much better...

And they thoroughly enjoyed the bigger fishies...

My parents say this fellow looked like a very sad old man...


And luckily the price stopped them from thinking about buying these for CNY!!




The tortoises were ignore...

[Justikanz]

After the trip to the 'zoo' , I brought them to the orchird nurseries down the road... They were amazed by the colours and find the slipper orchids amusing...

Too bad it was the first Sunday of the month and thus, a lot of the flowering orchirds were at the Singapore Botanical Gardens instead...

But still, they were still fasinated by the myriad of colours and patterns of the orchids available...










I think this is my favourite orchid, based on its 'dalmation' pattern!











I ended up getting a small pot of jewel orchids, which are flowering soon at home...

Nice flowering tilly!!


And this dog decided to give us an early morning 'show'... which I luckily did not take a picture of...

[bryan]

For a moment I thought the nice pair of legs belonged to you and the fish had removed the hair, until I read the comments.

[Justikanz]

After leaving Choa Chu Kang, we made our way to Lim Chu Kang, where we stop by at Teo's Aquatic Plant farm.

We were greeted by the chicken shit smell, which my sister just cannot stand initially! But by the time we returned to the car, they had totally forgotten about the smell...



My parents felt that the staff at Teo's were very friendly and they were fasinated by the water sprinkling around and the packing of the plants... No more pictures as I had been to this place so many times, I don't even think about taking pictures there!

[Justikanz]

After that, we proceeded to my sister's favourite stop (the only stop if she has a say! )

Hay's Goat Farm


Plenty of goats there... Spent money helping the Hays feed their lifestock...















We were also treated to a 'show' there... Which my sis loudly asked me to take a picture of...

[Justikanz]

Next, the Dragon Fruit Farm next door...

Dragon fruit 'trees'...


Dragon Fruit flowers




Green developing fruits


Dragon fruits!


There were other stuff too... These are honeydew plants!!






There were quite a bit of stuff for sale... We bought dragon fruit drinks and pots of stevia and mint from them in the end...

Nice flower on sale too...


But couldn't buy... Running low on cash and car space...

[Justikanz]

It was WAY past lunch time and we still had not had lunch... So, we stopped over at Bollywood Veggies and had lunch there... We had some unique dishes such as papaya chicken, aloe vera tofu, banana curry, fried mani leave with eggs... Then we had a tour of Ms Singh's BIG plot of farmland... What I liked about visiting her place is the fact that you can see a lot of stuff you can hardly see in Singapore... These are a few examples...

Starfruits!


Lady's fingers


Longan flowers (the fruits were too high up...)


Others include padi, gingers, lemongrass, lime, jasmine, dill, pandan, cocoa, coffee, jambu, guava, various species of bananas and various other vegetables...

There were other stuff too, of course...

[Justikanz]

By now, we were quite exhausted... And HOT!! The sun was working that day and so we decided to wrap up the day by going to the Thomson nurseries... We managed to get some stuff for CNY there.

My family were thrilled by Far East Flora's cold room... It was a cool relieve from the day's trip! Given a choice, they would not leave there till dinner time!

Parting shots:

Lavender plants in pots




Colourful chillies for the New Year?




Thanks for reading!

[Happy Camper]

Nice journal Justikanz. Especially the 'goat porn'.

[fishgoogle]

Thanks for Sharing, now I know where to bring my family during the weekend.

Cheers!

[Freshman]

excellent photos!
*turtle.. not tortoise..

[celticfish]

thomas,
i think the dog manage to give a "show" in your picture of him...

[Justikanz]

Freshman, I thought red-eared sliders are tortoises... not turtles. Thought turtles have flippers instead?

Celtic... That 'show' is nothing compared to what it did with its tongue later...

[wei0204]

Thank you for sharing, I did enjoy reading through and seeing through the whole thing ... enjoyable.

[brianclaw]

Tortoises are generally terrestrial turtles. Turtles/terrapins are generally aquatic/semi-aquatic turtles.

Nice pics. Must have been a fun trip.

[Justikanz]

Maybe should have just addressed them as terrapins to reduce confusion...

It was a fun trip... Looking forward to going other places, such as Farmart, Pasir Ris and Seleter West Farmways...

[flashout]

Honestly, I never tough Singapore was more then a city itself! Man...i should come on one of there day, just a neighbour, yet never visited. Most ppl visit Singapore will just shopping here and there, thats all.

Anyway, good man!

[juggler]

Good write up and photos!
I will try to bring my family to the Bollywood place sometime.

[Justikanz]

I am planning another trip soon... To help me relax... Thinking of Farmart, some of the CCK farms, maybe further in Neo Tiew or even Jalan Kayu or Pasir Ris...

There are alot of such places in Singapore... Just that a lot of them are not very accessible via public transport, that's all...