Spice Tour

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Meet Joshy! He picked us up at the airport with this great sign that Kirk arranged, since I joked I always wanted someone holding a sign with my name on it when I got off the plane.
Joshy picked us up a few days later to drive us over the mountainsto our next destination. We felt in good hands with all these bases covered!

Because he knew what to look for, the truck that hauls an elephant, we took a short detour to see this elephant in a temple. Some temples have their own elephant others rent and elephant for this celebration.
We drove through an area that grows rubber trees. Joshy showed us how the latex sap is collected from the trees.
This young man provided the special knife to cut the rubber tree bark and his mom.
Joshy’s parents which graciously invited us into their home and share their homemade nutmeg liquiore with us as well as letting us see all the Spice trees and plants around their home.
Joshy and his wife Bincy in their home. They made a flar bread much like a crepe called appam made from fermentedrice flour and coconut milk.

Delicious!
His cat. One of few we saw.
Green peppercorns from the plant. The plant is a climber and is planted around other trees.
Ginger harvest.
Cinnamon bark fresh from the tree.

These are just a few of the spices and plants we saw. There are several leaves such as the curry leaf and fenugreek leaf used in almost every southern India cuisine. The biggest jack fruit ever; many kinds of bananas, coffee and tea just to name a few. All were made more special by the people!

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  1. This is Soooooo great!!! I wish we were doing all of that with you guys!!! Lovin’ the blog!!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️ Love & miss you both😘

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