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Butterflies Farm in Penang– a school children outings?

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One of my friends were shock cause this is more of a schoolchildren field trips or outings. Actually all my friends and I have been to the butterfly farm since we were school children, either by followed the school field trips or our parents. Thus, we don’t really expect much excitement from it. Anyhow, doing the same things at different time with different people, it does give you different kind of thoughts and feels….hheheehe..Don’t you think so? However, to our surprise, all of us had a nice time visiting the butterfly farm as all our memories have actually faded on how the butterfly farm look like…Infact…you will find some other creatures insides besides the butterflies, scorpians, snakes, turtles and many other insects you will find in the city life..

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Do you know if you have apply any body powder or floral fragrance on your body, the butterfly will come to you, flying around you and of course there will not harm you. Isn’t it nice you can get close to the butterflies?

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What else can we do in Penang? besides food, beaches and shopping malls

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Tropical Fruit Farms in Penang

Penang has always been famous for its hawkers food, its sandy beach and temples. Being a local who live one and half hour from Penang island, I used to visit there ever since I was a schoolgirl. We like to go Penang for the beach, food and shopping malls which my friends and I used to go there for the same purposes.

During my recent trip Penang again, my friend and I were wondering what else we can do besides the food and beaches here. We then decided to pick up a leaftlet which is provided free from the Hotel lobby to check out the places that they are promoting Penang.

We then discovered that there are many places around Batu Feringgi where we can explore such as the Spice Garden, National Park, the Tropical fruit farm, batik crafting center and butterfly farm. Due to time constraints, we decided to go to the Tropical fruit farm. It took us about 25minutes to reach the tropical fruit farm as it is quite a distance from Batu Feringgi. When you reach there, we still need to pay an entrance fees of RM25 (about "8" USD) per person to enter the fruit farm by a van. It seems that the fruit farm is at a higher hills where private cars are not allowed or unable to drive up??….The entrance fees includes an unlimited fresh fruit juice as much as you want. Oh gosh, we thought that it is rather expensive and we then returned with disappointment and I suggested visit the Butterfly Farm while on our way back.

Has Anyone seen Sky Fruit before?

Anyway, have you ever since the sky fruit which grow up facing the sky instead of hanging down…I guess it is being called skyfruit due to its nature.Picture 017a  This is the picture of a skyfruit.

It is believed to be a healthy fruit which could cure many diseases too. The fruit on the right is the “Cempedak".

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Have you try sky fruit before?