Malaysia - Crocodile Farm

Dave and Teresa are good, solid people. They had been living a short drive from a crocodile farm for a couple of months, and held off visiting so that they could share that experience with us. That's a sign of true friendship!

Breakfast @ The Pergola Hotel's awesome restaurant, Brother John

Choosing her fate

The order form

Ol' T-bags takin' orders!

Brother John's take on Nasi Lemak

As we said before, Nasi Lemak a very common, traditional Malaysian meal. 'Nasi Lemak,' in Malay literally means, 'fatty rice,' which refers to the manner in which the rice is prepared. The rice for this dish is first soaked in coconut cream, and then steamed. The standard, basic version of this dish comes as a platter with the coconut steamed rice, cucumber slices, dried anchovies, roasted peanuts, a hard boiled egg and sambal sauce to bring the heat. Brother John's Nasi Lemak comes with a nice little addition of fried chicken to kick up the sodium a notch and add a little more grease. It's description sounds a little strange, but when it's all mixed together, it's actually quite tasty!

Selamat Datang Taman Buaya!!!
'Welcome to the Crocodile Farm!!!' (we assume)

The park has clearly seen better days...

Note to croc:
You'd be a lot more intimidating if all your teeth weren't broken off...

It was a pleasant surprise when, right in the middle of the crocodile farm, we discovered a miniatures garden with all the famous and noteworthy buildings in Malaysia! Bonus!

Spoooooooky!

This haunted house was actually really, really scary. And not for the usual reasons either. Scary because it was old, dirty, dark and fairly dangerous. We first discussed doing it as a joke, but it was no joke to Andrew, who basically forced everyone into walking through it. Since he was the instigator, he lead the way. Being the first to encounter all the 'spooky' booby traps (like dusty rags falling on his face, stepping into the stagnant puddles along the path and walking into real spider webs) he screamed the most, but everyone did their share of screeching!

The raptor cage from Jurassic Park!

The first (and only) mention we've ever heard of the Hunchback Crocodile...

The first, and only direct hit for 'hunchback crocodile' on Google is a link to this drawing:
The rest of the hits are for "The Nile rat killed the crocodile..." quote from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Even the accurate hits on an image search only take you to blog posts of people that have visited crocodile farms in Malaysia. So, perhaps they're real and Malaysia has just kept them hidden from the scientific community worldwide or perhaps they're made up. You're guess is as good as ours!

Eggcelent!

♥ Love was in the air ♥

More love

Into the aviary!

Dave has a special talent for making friends. No matter where he goes or what he does, the people around him are in danger of becoming prey entangled in his chatty web. Our visit to the crocodile farm was no exception. The poor man in orange was Dave's victim this time!

Basically what Dave & Judy looked like after the parade the night before!

The aviary contained God only knows how many different kinds and sizes of birds (that probably shouldn't be living together), so why these ones didn't make the cut, we have no clue...

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