This post is the last late post about My Unforgettable journey to Samarkilang, Bener Meriah, Aceh, Indonesia in January 2022. I spent 3 whole days and nights there. The next day after the business center launching ceremony, we packed our bag, left none to stay around for a couple of weeks as the prove of our trust on the women's group to continue their business. The official of the organization who's in charge of the following action still coming to the village until today. The village has considered our team as their family and Katahati Enterprise also the marketer of their products. If you want to purchase any products or want to know more, you can contact them on instagram @katahatienterprise.
The only school they have there is an elementary school and if the children want to continue their study, they need to live away from their parents and village. They go to the central of the districts or other districts in Aceh. Most parents usually sent their children to Islamic boarding school or institution.
Maybe, because I was too careless and excited when I was running around the place, I slip down to the water 🙃when I stepped up on a moldy big stone to get as near as i could be to reach the waterfall. Fortunately, nothing serious with the fell down accident, I just needed to let someone massage my back one time when I went back home in Lhokseumawe. After 20 minutes at the waterfall, we drive straight ahead to Redelong. Having our sumptuous lunch and purchase some necessary things for the next Agenda.
What Agenda🤨??
Uhm... It's Durian Time!!
We, I mean My hubby
and I were lucky because we came to Bener Meriah at the end of the Durian Harvesting time. One of the member of the team, Dian Ismi has a close relative living in Bener Meriah. We asked her to take us to the Durian's Plantation belongs to her family. The place is right on our way back home.
We reached the durian orchard about 1 hour from Redelong after lunch. Dian has been in contact with her relative who owned the orchard; we just have to stopped by and enjoy the durian which she had collected from under the tree the night before. Oh, we can't eat durian right after it fell down from its tree, we need to wait for at least one night to get the best creamy taste out of it. was it for free?
Who cares to snap some pictures when my hands were full already? I have to fight for the best tasted durian with all the team members, there were 11 of us and none of us allergic to this king of fruit. As I told you before, it's the end of the durian harvest season. We're lucky that we could have at least 20 durians for all of us and few more as souvenirs. By the way, we did pay for the durians; but the price is 10 times cheaper than the market price ðŸ¤.
The market price for local durian was $2 each and you need to pay $5-10 for each when you're not staying close to the central of the durian producers' area. By the way, it's a durian heaven for me and hubby. We have to pay $20 for one Durian Monthong in Pamulang, Banten where I live now. So we paid $13 for everything we ate there. Can't you not pay? yes, we can, but the owner of the orchard has to paid someone to collect the durians from orchard and also purchasing a few from the neighbor too.
We stayed there for 2 hours and before evening came, we continue our journey back home with additional food containers full of durian's flesh on each hand. the food's container could uphold about 2 durians, and I had 3 or it. Alright, no dinner that night for me, just durian and durian till my heart contented.
We arrived at Bireuen on 8PM, I have to wave goodbye to the team who will continue their way back home to Banda Aceh with a promise that I'll be joined the strategic planning arrangement meeting which will be held in a week later in Banda Aceh.
My husband and I continued our trip back to my hometown by a public transportation. We're quite lucky since there's not many other passengers with us. So, when hubby opened the food's container to eat durian's flesh, nobody minds him. There's no written forbidden to eat such a strong smelled food on public transportation, but sometimes we need to consider other's feeling.
The unforgettable journey in Samarkilang, end here😀, if you want to know more about our project there, just watch 👉 Katahati dari Samarkilang👈Thank you for stopping by, supports and encouragement to keep sharing with the communities here. I'll be right back with another story of my hometown. Here's a picture that related to it.
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