The long road

Many of the places we visited we a bit off of the main road.  Some were pretty rough.  This one was by far the longest.  We were on it for a half an hour, maybe more.

And what were we driving through mostly?  Oil palm farms.

A good stretch of road.

One of many really big trucks on a really little road.

A new swallow house.  Layang means "Swallow".  There used to be a lot of swallows in the area.    There are still some, enough to set up houses like this one to harvest nests.  Why you ask?  Bird Nest Soup.

We finally arrived.  There was a fair amount of construction going on around here, but this is one of Raymond's Colisa (Dwarf Gourami) suppliers.

Tubs of baby plecos.  The same tubs are used to breed the gouramis.

A palm frond stuck into the bank of a plecostomus pond.  Every morning, they carefully harvest the babies that have congregated on the fronds.

One problem, the pleco burrows in the side of the pond can be nearly 3 feet long.  when you have plecos on both sides, eventually you have one big pond with connecting tunnels.