Aug. 30- Today long, left at 7:30am for drive to the Floating Market. On the way stopped at the coconut orchard and watched coconut sugar being made. Everything of the coconut is used- sugar, milk, purses, wooden objects of all kinds from the palm tree, and fertilizer and containers for orchids from the shells. The Floating Market was a fun experience. We took a 20 minute boat trip on a canal and then took a row boat through the middle of the market. In their boats and alongside the canal they were selling just about everything: hats, souvenirs, fruit, cooking coconut pancakes, fried bananas, etc. We tried Durian fruit. The locals say it smells like hell but tastes like heaven. They lie. It smells like hell and tastes like hell too. The smell is so bad that there was a sign in the lobby of our hotel in Penang saying no Durians allowed in the hotel. The former hotel manager who was our guide told us it takes one week to clear out the smell from a room.