Since we relocated to Taiping early this year, we have hardly gone out of town except for one day during Chinese New Year. Sounds depressing, right? Please don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining though. Anyway, the reason behind this is because hubby is perpetually on-call, being the only guy in town to go to for any heart conditions. Besides, I was also bogged down with my own job and managing baby Nate at the same time.
There’s hardly or shall I say there’s never been a day that we’re not occupied with work, except for today. The weather lately has been less wet than it used to be about two weeks back. For your information, Taiping also known as Rain Town has been the wettest town in Malaysia from time immemorial. After returning from church, we had a short nap and before long, everyone was woken up by the cries of baby Nate. It was then that hubby suggested we should all get out of the house and go somewhere. Needless to say, that somewhere had to be within a 30-minute drive from his hospital.
Well, there isn’t that many places in Taiping that we’ve yet to explore. In my mind, I was hoping hubby wasn’t going to bring us back to the same old places. Nope, he wasn’t! Instead, he brought us to a place I didn’t even know exist, much less heard of – Trong Leisure Farm & Resort. It’s located approximately 20km from us, in a small town called Terong (variant spelling for Trong) and along the main road – Jalan Kuala Trong. The journey there took us just 28 minutes, to be exact.
Trong Leisure Farm & Resort is probably the only duck-themed leisure farm in Malaysia, something extremely peculiar. I presume the owner of the farm must have been a great fan of ducks. The farm’s compound is vast and stretches as far as your eyes can see. It seemed like an old palm oil estate interspersed with many lakes that had been re-innovated to be what it is today. Very brilliant of its owner, what a foresight indeed!
At this point, you must be wondering what has this farm got to offer its visitors. Rest assured, you’re not alone as I did wonder too. But, you’d be surprised that there are in fact several activities you can indulge in, such as visiting the duck farm, observing the egrets, fishing and pedal boats. However, you’d have to pay a reasonable entrance fee of RM8 for adults, RM6 for senior citizens and disabled people; and RM4 for children between ages 3-12.
After paying our entrance fee, we took a tractor-drawn cart that sent us deep into the farm where thousands of ducks and cute little ducklings awaited us. Quack, quack, quack…ducks everywhere! It felt somewhat like we were on a safari, but the only exception was that the animals were ducks. Once inside the duck farm, you can purchase a packet of duck feed for RM1 and start feeding the ducks and ducklings. This was probably Nate’s first close encounter with such cute animals. He definitely had one of the best times of his life.
On top of that, this farm also runs a resort of its own, in case you travel from afar and need a place to stay. If you plan to have a family get together, this resort is definitely an ideal place since it also provides for barbecue and steamboat. Should you desire a different meal than that, do feel free to check out the Trong Seafood Restaurant (pork-free), which is at the farm’s main entrance.
Thinking of getting a souvenir? Not to worry! There’s also a souvenir or sundry shop which sells an astonishing range of merchandise like duck-themed soft toys, apparels, water bottles, keychains, salted duck eggs, frozen duck, biscuits and many more stuffs.
We didn’t manage to go for the pedal boat ride as it wasn’t convenient at all for Nate to put on the safety jacket. Furthermore, dark clouds were looming over us and soon raindrops began falling while we were still strolling around the lake. We hurried through the passion fruit corridor on our way out to the restaurant, where we ended our adventure with a sumptuous dinner.
Since we were in a duck farm, duck meat was sure to be one of the dishes we ordered. Honestly, the food was just average but came at a very reasonable price. I’ll definitely return to this farm again one day when Nate is older and that time we will surely be spending more time pedalling the entire lake.
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