Taman Warisan Pertanian Putrajaya 15 Apr 2012

Taman Warisan Pertanian is located in the midst of the rapid development at Precinct 16, Putrajaya. It is part of the urban planning of Putrajaya, as a sanctuary for Malaysia’s agricultural legacy. It is some kind of an orchard with variety of seasonal and non-seasonal local fruits, rare fruits, commercial crops and also herbs and spices.

As this is the first time we went there. It is actually not difficult to look for as the clear signage along the Putrajaya road is clear.

As we enter the park, immediately can see the information counter and the park map just besides the stairs. There are a few fruits kiddy big masks there, Mummy just took some photos on both the babies.

Once we walked up the stairs, we can see a covered space called Agriculture Square or Medan Tani on top after the stairs, where they hold exhibitions, shows or markets from time to time.

Here too are gift shops, snack shop, mini store, a florist, clothing store and so on.

This opens out onto a food court area with a number of eating choices including a Live Kitchen (Penanggah), a sate stall, and various kuey teow, noodle, roti and other Malaysian-style fast food stalls.

From here take some more steps (wheelchair ramp is available) to the ticket booth selling entrance tickets to the main part of the park. the ramp designs is unique.

The weather is very hot by the time we arrived at the park, it is almost 11:30am, Mummy decided to took a buggy ride instead of walk up the hilly pathways. We shared the buggy with another Malay family.

The buggy ride began with passed by fruits species growing here including jackfruit, rambutan, sapodilla, jambu madu, cempedak, longan, durian, pomelo, mango, mangosteen, pulasan, dragon fruit, star fruit and guava.

Some of the trees have plastic bags wrapped around the fruits to deter pests (insect, animal and human!).

Other crops include citronella (an effective insect and snake repellent), pandanus, ylang ylang, lemon grass, sour garcinia and java tea (cat's whiskers). There is even a mini rice paddy field, complete with scarecrow.

There are commercial crops, such as oil palm and rubber trees.

In the rubber tree grove there are some mangles on display which are used to squeeze the raw latex into sheets of basic rubber material.

There is also a replica of a typical rubber tapper's home in this area.

The Malay House is rather interesting and unique, as both the children love the displays in the house, there are all the tools that a rubber taper would use; the products which rubber can be made off; and the lives of a rubber taper can be seen in the house.

We stopped quite a while at the house, and there is a Smoke House just besides the little working hut nest to it.

Then, our buggy rides on and we pass by the  Viewing Deck. The viewing deck can overseeing the whole park. But we do not stay there long.

Educational tours and demonstrations can be provided to groups of children and students if arranged in advance.

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We ended our trip with having a drink at the Penanggah.

Mummy can sees Issac’s eyes that he miss his Daddy…

This is probably the first time that we had our outing without their Daddy… We have to get use to it after all… I hope someday in the future the children will understand.