After settling in to our accommodations Ashraf and Rauf took us over to Jafar’s sister’s home for coffee, delicious snacks and a visit. Their home is only a few hundred meters from the guest house where we were staying.

Jafar’s brother in law told us that he worked in Saudi Arabia for 14 years. Now he is focused on farming on the family property. Like their neighbours, they grow coffee beans as well.

Neighbor kids visit too

While we were there several small children from the neighbours’ homes came over to see who was visiting. At first they came and peeked up the driveway, all ran away then came up to the house, peeked at us again and ran away until finally mustered up the courage to come right into the house to see us up close. Not too many Westerners in this part of Kerala. There were about 10 kids ranging from 3 – 12. Cath gave each of them a Canada lapel pin which they all got a big kick out of. They all then posed for a photo!

We took several photos of our visit but unfortunately they are on the camera card which I cannot access until I can hook up to a computer.