Most families grow their own food here. The ricefields are full for the moment of locals harvesting in a serene way, I tried to help but it was oh so exhausting in the heat. Everywhere you look on the hills you can find cocoa trees, most fruit trees as well as lots of herbs, spices and other vegetation used for ayurvedic treatments. A lot of families grow their own coffe beans so we went to have a closer look at it. Did you know about the Luwak coffee? It is a special coffee you find here and on Sumatra and the way it is produced is by letting a mammal called Luwak by the Indonesians, eat the red coffee beans and while the bean is in the stomach it undergoes chemical treatments and ferments. The animal then poos out the beans which are collected, cleaned and roasted to make the very expensive coffee! The coffee is very rich and musty.
The days for the moment are filled with awe of the breathtaking sea life that we are exploring while snorkelling, it really is such a mystic other world out there, we can not get enough of watching the small creatures and the stunning coral reefs.
For the next few days I will not be posting as I am going to stay in a retreat to meditate and take things at even more peaceful rate than before. It is quite something to be so in tune with the sun and the earth-getting up with the sunrise and getting slower as the sun finally fades away in the distance of the ocean. Never looking at a watch. Have a lovely rest of the week.
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