Olive Brook

The lovely budget hotel on an elettaria cardamon plantation that Jenny had chosen for us in the hills above the tea plantations.  

The cardamon here is recently planted and will take 3 years to bring to harvest.  

We visited a local spice garden, tasted delicious mangosteen, saw cocoa plants, cinnamon bark, split open ripe nutmeg to find the mace and nut and watched women harvesting cardamon. 

Everyone was invited into the kitchen for a cooking demonstration by the chef, followed by dinner.  There was an interesting and  pleasant group of fellow guests and we very much enjoyed our time here.

I always get a kick out of seeing poinsettia growing wild.