Throwback Thursday: Tropical Fruits Facts and Legends
Durian, Asia’s Notorious “King of Fruits”
On July 21, 2011, A Traveller’s Tale was born with its very first post, “Tropical Fruits Facts and Legends: Asia’s Notorious “King of Fruits”. Until September of that year, a total of seven fruits were featured in this blog and tropical fruits has proven to be an “evergreen” topic; getting visited, liked, cited and commented on year after year until now thus reinforcing the frequent advice to bloggers to chose enduring topics for their articles.
Aside from the durian, the tropical fruits featured on this series so far were:
Cross section of a young coconut
Fresh pineapples with their crown
Pineapple – The Fruit of Hospitality
A golden fruit the shape of a human heart
Mango – The Fruit of Love and Friendship
The Papaya Tree
Papaya – The Fruit of the Angels
The jackfruit tree
Jackfruit – The World’s Largest Fruit
A pomelo tree almost ready for harvesting
Unfortunately (or fortunately?), due to shifts in work focus and schedule, this site has evolved into a travel and photography-focused blog and has not sustained this series mainly because of limited to time to research topics and shoot photos for each article. Nevertheless, the series has been found to be enjoyable and very informative by many and so I still hope to add more articles to this series in the future.
The drag of endless mental work in a strange land takes its toll. Fatigue can kill so petty escapades provide hopeful deviations from the brewing madness. An aging DSLR keeps good company to a walk around the neighbourhood, a short drive to a scenic place, or a silent recollection in a quiet nook granting that the host community and the elements of nature would allow one a safe passage to solitude and contemplation. Loneliness quickly turns to joy when something exciting gets captured by the cam’s shutter then set free into the laptop’s screen followed by electric words that rush from the fingers to the keyboard in an effort to describe the moment. Alas, the brain is alive once again!
Brilliant photos!
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I just love tropical fruit.
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Oh! Such memories you evoke for me with this tropical fruit :). I once dared to try durian while holding my nose, and how awesome the flavour. Like delicate peaches and cream. :). My all time favourite is mangosteen …. I look forward to seeing what else you post.
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🙂 A usual strategy for first timers. On the other hand, among those who are oblivious to the smell, I’ve seen some people singlehandedly demolish whole fruits in one sitting. Mangosteen — good suggestion for my next post on tropical fruits. Love it too!
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I absolutly love tropical fruits!! Passion fruits and Mangos!
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Passion Fruit – I’ll keep it mind for my future post. Cheers!
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