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Durian Hunting

2007.12.31

Wilson is looking for his socks, getting ready for the "trip".

It's still dark out there...

First one!

The silhouette of durian trees against the breaking dawn

Watch your head, you'll never want a durian to fall on your head!

This is the team where they've got themselves almost 60 durians!

This is the reaction when they heard "THOOP", means a durian just fell to the ground.

Well, this man got it first

Photography session

The sun is rising high

There's a lot of durians still hanging on the tree branch

Clearing off the mud that stuck on the boots

Time to go

Wilson trying to bargain with this teenager at a low price at one of the stall by the roadside

Another seller

The display shot of our trophy for today

Begin another tour...

Meet a lady waiting for durian to drop

This is the muddy path you have to walk through

Look at my muddy pants and boots!

We came across an underground water source, the water is crystal clear and nice to drink

We met another old couple in the forest, and they treated us a durian

Wilson is "killing" the durian

Waiting to see how good the fruit is

Argghhh...

This old lady is camera shy

A lovely couple

Hey, you want some?

Feasting the fruit when reached home

For your information:
Durian is called the “King of Fruits”, favored by almost everyone in South-East Asia. It has a very strong scent which can be smelled from far and the smell usually keeps the tourists from either America or the Europe away, because they don’t get use to the “stink” of it. However the flesh of the fruit is sweet, creamy and buttery like. Once the durian is ripen, it will fall all the way to the ground.

It’s approximately 5:50 am when I reached Wilson’s place, where we’ve planned to look for some durians for throughout the morning. At first we went to a durian hill named SUA, about 3 minutes drive from his house. The land belongs to the Bidayuh natives where only their own people can get in the forest to collect durians. For me I’m exceptional as I’m following Wilson.

Besides us there were the others looking for durians as well, but Wilson knew them as they’re from the same village. We also met a team of trio who has been here from 10pm last night; they have already collected almost 60 pieces of durian.

At the durian hill, if you heard a durian dropped on the ground, you have to yelled “Woo”, if nobody answers you back, the durian is yours. After 3 hours of searching we decided to go back, and we only got ourselves 9 pieces.

When we reached Wilson’s house, we took a rest and went to the durian hill at the back of his home, but we got ourselves nothing at all. Before I left, Wilson gave me all the 9 durians we found at SUA, thanks to him!

In order to get yourself a durian, you got to have a pair of good eyes, a sensitive nose and some luck too!

And finally, say farewell to 2007 and Happy New Year 2008 everyone!

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