we have just arrived now to our homestay that
we're going to stay in for the next few nights while we're here in toraja ooh bug hello just
on my head yeah and they're going to so i mean we just pulled up so i think they're going to
prepare us coffee uh we're going to take rest sort of uh here in the shade and then we are going
to i think be a staying in this accommodation here uh but there's lots of kids here and animals
forest forest who's this hello sorry sorry lots of kids hi boys you see you're gross hi
hi okay we go this way and uh aru was just explaining that they're making uh pork for our
lunch pork and um got like a bug on me i think okay all right i think i think i'm bug
free now so just a beautiful property i see uh roosters and dogs and cats and of
course all the kids for say hello sorry and aru it's it's a pork that they're making in
the bamboo bamboo it's called papillon papillon ah and this is we are definitely in a rural area in
taraja so we've got all the buffalo whoa hi oh horns is going to be our driver all week so
rudy and aru yeah this buffalo horn there used to be a funeral ceremony
two months ago two months ago okay so two months ago this was all
set up and now they take it down and then the community will come
and take oh no it's special for the family but just for the metal
roof like this yeah okay yeah yeah this is a boat like over there okay yes and
then metal roof like in the rice band's platform yes belongs to the community association so
the the families who live in this area can use them for the next i see okay so very very
communal yeah yeah okay very good very good and then those bamboos yeah
sometimes families like our driver yes because he lives
there our driver rudy's house is here mother house okay rudy's mother's house okay
and this is rudy's children yeah children okay and then this one it will be
used for cooking something okay in the kitchen yeah all right so not
neces they won't like rebuild they'll use this first fire it's not strong anymore is this
rudy's mother yes okay what's your mother's name yeah does uh does your mother speak english no no
no okay so very sweet lady to let us come and stay at her house and then all
the girls lots of children all types of uh landscaping
hello furry cedar how old are you 10 years wow how old are you seven nice okay
have fun you girls everybody's a little shy right now but i have a hunch by uh you know day three
four five we'll all be we'll all be good friends so again um rudy's mother has invited us
to a sitting area for uh coffee coffee and this will be taraja coffee okay our first
uh yeah our first raja coffee experience taraja coffee here we go copy copy
copy how do you say cheers cheers boom delicious and um it tastes great maybe sugar but i i can drink this black all day
this is really nice it's very nice we are going to enjoy the coffee relax for a
little while they've got the pork cooking we're going to catch up with um aru and rudy and
his wife and just hear some stories so we'll see you here in just a little bit so we've
only been here for just maybe an hour where we've uh had a tour of at least the outside of the
property drinking coffee over here but one thing that immediately strikes me about the homestay
experience is all the playing the kids get shy when i come around the camera but there's
at least one two three four five five other kids and they're all running around there's
a little tricycle bike that they're chasing each other with you just you're not gonna get
that in the hotel at all so the fact that aru on whatsapp was so uh accommodating asking like
what we wanted and and us just kind of giving them some feedback and that that conversation led to
us staying at this beautiful property very rural with rudy our driver's family it's gonna be
great so i think we're going to finish up the coffee that pork is cooking back here
uh the one thing to point out and i didn't realize the pork is actually inside the bamboo
so hopefully i can uh still catch that yeah pop is uh still back here cooking i didn't quite get
what they were when they were saying the pork is like bamboo pork now i i understand hey pot so the
pork is actually inside so pork uh bobby inside yeah so the pork is uh inside this bamboo shoot
that uh pok is uh managing and okay now i can see so right in there there's all types of
like herbs and i can hear it boiling away from that fire yeah pop uh chemical see uh
enoch yeah a knot i wish i spoke more bahasa but that's so that's gonna be dinner this pork
um cooked in the bamboo with all those herbs and uh i suppose like vegetables so uh here in
a minute once we're done with our coffee uh aru is going to take us down to the garden to
show us all the vegetables oh there's a dog really yeah lots of animals oh there's sea again
things like these chickens are running around ah yeah perfect this this is where you want
to stay if you're coming to chiraj i mean i know there's hotels in town but you're just
not going to get this open rural experience staying in a hotel all right so the way it's
going to work we have not actually seen our room yet but i thought my understanding is correct
we are going to be sleeping in here in this accommodation kind of up that second level
there's tables chairs over there we'll do a proper tour in a minute but things like toilet
and showers that's all in the main house here and this is just for like a lounging chill area a
lot of the kids were in here earlier just hanging out i imagine this is where they're going to
do a lot of the cooking in the kitchen here there is a little bit of a
like a kids toy play area a tv lots of little stuffed animals and things right
there but the shower and the toilet okay so this is all here so we've got obviously uh indoor
plumbing the toilet the paper is probably gonna end up in that little bin right there i'll have
to get clarification on that and then the shower is here now there is a shower head but when
i followed the hose it's not really connected to anything so it's a bucket it's basically
bucket baths is how we're gonna handle the shower situation so they've got uh shampoo they've
got towels all that kind of stuff so that's great because we didn't bring anything like that but
it'll be uh yeah the bucket the dream back there is the shower bathroom situation so it's just
off the main house here but i am excited to see kind of how the cooking and how that's going to
work and we can eat our dinner where we had the coffee or in our little uh patio area so we'll
do a proper room tour here in just a little bit okay so we are going to go check out the room this
is uh our official first look even at the room and we'll see how it goes so we still got the stuff in
the car um okay so this here is a sitting area it is basically yeah we're i think we're gonna have
like coffee here maybe breakfast or something and all right the room what do you guys think should
we go check it out all right everyone's excited to see the room kel we'll have to be careful
for us on the stairs maybe i'll pop up first she's up here yeah yeah that's actually a good
idea yeah so we'll leave our shoes down here yeah that's coffee see okay here uh we can
put the bags here we'll take up yeah yeah no scary you stay here let's take a look all
right so right up the stairs we go oh wow okay so it looks like i got my little light
here all right cool so we have got numerous kind of bed space okay it looks
like definitely have power let's just ah there we go light all right look for light
switch shooter here we go here's another one yes okay so here's sort of the i got my
really bright light now all right so this is our living situation we've got a bed
here that i think all three kids will take welcome granite and we have this bed maybe
kelly and i will take this bed uh we have great views right off the bat got that buffalo
head and this is it i'm sorry yeah that's okay so we've got two beds yeah and a mat me kelly will
be here greatest either fours will be over there some combination of the two and there is plugs
so we are going to be able to plug in all of our devices maybe we'll sleep here since that's
closer to that plug and i'll just use my little uh converter to plug in here some storage
let's see what's under here maybe oh a tv it may or may not work we'll find out but yeah
it's a good uh good looking right yes perfect perfect we put the kids here yeah and me and
kelly sleep here yeah yeah per and it has the has the power yeah plug so i can charge batteries
yeah perfect all right yeah tamakasi wonderful all right guys what do you think excited
i'm excited again look forward to this forest has this little micro window you can
open the window for us open the window say hello ah there's all the friends ah they run off
everyone's so shy with perfect yes all right well that is the official room tour let's see
oh yeah i think i need the light all right cool so just in case you missed it our bed will
be here storage plugs kids will sleep there we have lots of shelving we
have power and numerous spots and we have a forest a forest window all
right cool okay so now we are going to get our bags up here get comfortable and it's
almost five so i have a hunch dinner we'll be uh not too far away all right so it's uh about
6 45 in the evening dinner is being served soon so they set us up so we have a kind of again the
traditional house here but kelly and the kids and aru were all set up over here in this uh kind of
traditional housing i think they're going to bring it out pretty soon but we're right in the middle
of these traditional housings sort of where we had coffee and they have it all set up for us take off
my shoes but this eating platform very very local uh eating out outside like this yeah traditional
all right so we got the mats set up to bring the food here and it'll be communal style yeah very
nice you guys getting hungry yeah yeah me too it's the pork with the bamboo i'm excited to
see how that turns out so uh when the food comes out we'll uh show you the food for sure
all right so rudy just brought out the bean dish so it is definitely pork in bamboo wow i've
never seen that no it's not awesome yeah so do they they shove the pork down the top wow how long did that cook over the fire one hour
one hour excellent oh and then the nasty nice olive yeah wow that looks great and you can see
all the pork lots different chili onion uh what's the green is that was that the local okay what
you showed me at the uh at the restaurant that's gonna be weird that's gonna be pretty good yeah oh
there's all types of vegetables coming too oh yes all right okay so this uh sambal oh this is like what we had
for lunch except homemade okay so the pork with the black
sauce lots of vegetables wow so it's just all uh it's all just communal
uh the way this works where uh you know you just all serve those pork this
is the pork that was in the bamboo yeah that's good yeah it smells outstanding yes
these are the water dishes for washing hands okay granny set that over here by you you would see
your canes that way all right and this is the pork with the sauce tell me the name of the sausage ah two different types of pork
oh my gosh yeah the vegetables so everyone is served again it's all communal
style and we're gonna dig in you guys want to try that pork in the black sauce first
the mixed plate all right go forget it cedar yeah good all right i'm gonna go one at a time this is the the pork
in the in the black sauce so good the uh homemade flavor arus so good
and then the pork that was cooked in the bamboo over that fire when we first got here oh man that is so good the vegetables the greens the
greens you can really taste in that pork that's a boy that's a really good
complement to that to the pork flavor those greens yeah that's really outstanding wow what a great flavor
granite how's that for you um you loving it some forest good stuff and kahara
the veg oh perfect just slightly uh sauteed so nice that's right salty and not spicy
at all perfect all perfect on rice good good good oh oh you got some
heat granite you got a chili pizza so you can see the difference
between all those different dishes but that pork that is that's the star ah this is just some of the chilli mix that in with the rice cups on the pork cheese the whole meal very very uh very good
enough we will dig in kids great right everyone's good all right yes so we will
enjoy this meal i wish you could be here because it tastes delicious and if you do
want to come aru is the man he'll hook it up so this uh yeah this is great what a traditional
tarajin meal and on the platform so cool all right we will see you after dinner all right well it is
officially bedtime for us it's almost nine o'clock i'm gonna stay up to a little editing and kind
of get everything off the gopro and to the hard drives but you can sort of see the way the
sleeping arrangements are gonna shake out so kelly and i will be here force is there and here
are the rest of the family what do you think kids i think it's going to be a good night comfortable
i think we're ready to sleep yeah it's not it's not hot or no i mean it's it's how would you
describe it it's nice it's not cold it's not hot it's just kind of right and then you guys
so these are the the sleeping cocoons we've had these things for years off amazon and oak forest
is joining so you know i might turn into one big family bed scenario but i have a hunch uh you know
i'll be at least over there move by myself so we got brown bears we got cocoons comfy beds you
kind of see how we staged everything in this room uh we got some fruit that we bought earlier today
in those bags technology uh area here they got the power strip plugs clothes and then
i've got some more staging back here and i will save this so there's no wi-fi here and
we're pretty rural so our phones are reading um lte 3g flips back and forth but we aren't actually
able to do anything on our phones so when they're in town uh is when we'll sort of check emails
and all that kind of stuff but at least when we're out here we get to enjoy uh kind of a tech
free time so uh nothing wrong with that all right guys any any favorite highlights from today
you've seen the buffalo the buffalo cool cedar you riding the buffalo right actually getting on
the buffalo forest what was your favorite today the buffalo yeah white buffalo kelly any highlights i think today the dinner
tonight with the family was really cool yeah that was pretty special yeah us for me i
love the restaurant that we went to today um the airplane the airport the whole day was fantastic
the scenery was really cool and i liked um seeing auntie like the the you know the people who have
died who are you know you call them sick until they're actually buried so i thought that was a
pretty cool experience did you guys like that yeah it was it's been neat to meet everybody today all
of aru's family our family members and um rudy's family members yeah yeah staying at rudy's um
house and and seeing his kids his wife his mother all the neighbors uh that's been pretty special
all those kids and what um aru was telling us is that he usually he's the tour guide he partners
with families that are going to have a funeral and need money so hit sometimes he'll partner
with people different groups of people which is really special to help out the whole community
it's really cool with that all right well we're going to wrap it up we will see you at breakfast
as part of this video so you can really get a full kind of full circle of the homestay experience
all right see you in the morning good morning it is just past 6 a.m uh cedar how'd you
sleep good yeah yes your bed comfortable oh yeah that cocoon that so the idea of the
cocoon is it just kind of wraps us up and protects us from any sort of bugs but there
i i mean there's no mosquitoes outside that i could tell i couldn't tell either but
yeah that's just usually for mosquitoes that's the little friend this
one sat by the stairs last night kept kept us safe you kept the safe yeah stretchy all right granted how'd you sleep pretty
good but at like 4 30 a.m the roosters yeah there was a a lot of [ __ ] taco doodle
doing at four about 4 30 is when they started and to my ears it's kind of like that rooster was
like right on that step but i i mean i doubt it was yeah so it [ __ ] a dude for a little bit yeah
but then it quieted down again i kind of like it reminds you that like there's
like a lot of animals around so when you're camping in the super quiet you're like
oh is there anything out there and you're gonna get nervous because you might feel like you're the
only one out there but with a lot of animals yeah i don't even feel protected yeah yeah that might
have been the culprit right there yeah that one the big guy the big guy yeah so good well i got uh
okay so i got a little cold sometime around like 2 2 30 but then they have blankets on the bed
so i mean all i had was that thin cocoon layer and uh then i just covered the blankets
that was fine wow so granted how's the tea yummy yeah she brought did you add sugar
or no not yet just plain is this sugar that's sugar just like a um i think that you
have a spoon there and here's the tea again all right coffee for me coffee for kelly nice and dark people will add sugar to the coffee we typically
don't i did not add it uh yesterday during dinner maybe i'll add a little a little sugar this
morning to try it but without the sugar boy nice and strong yeah it tastes great are you
gonna go for it yeah are you gonna have sugar um i don't think so yeah i mean either yeah it just has
a good flavor okay well we're gonna be served uh probably some sort of breakfast here in a bit but
in the meantime um we're just gonna enjoy this sort of misty morning at the homestay all
right so uh the the graham the grandmother is going to i think feed uh feed the
pigs so she's got forest in her arms oh my goodness so big so here's the little
baby piglets oh they're scared oh don't be scared though guys these guys are not
scared they know what food lots of pigs wow big boy the big pig all right well i'm
gonna run up and see about uh breakfast uh mama fallon said i could go take a peek in
the kitchen so let's see what that looks like so we're here for five days i
think it's gonna be a fantastic experience so much better than just
staying at a standard hotel in town and let's see i think the breakfast preparations
back here there's a cat there's a rooster okay oh my goodness foggy mama fallon oh wow okay so me going yeah excellent
garlic that's uh that's where it's at that is a lot of garlic smells delicious so
obviously the noodles some cut vegetables looks great the big kitchen and here's the egg she must have just fried
up wow spices all types of different spices oh that's great let's see so definitely a
big kitchen they said during funerals and they're hosting a funeral in may so just uh
next month actually there could be hundreds if not thousands of people uh that are all
up here and at the um the property we visited yesterday more on that video right here but
you can see it just takes like a whole bunch of dishes and burners and everything to create
such a feast every day for these hundreds if not thousands of people that are going to
come to the funeral but wow that's really cool and this is all for our breakfast so we or they
asked us yesterday if we wanted um like nasty going me going pancakes so we said uh the meat
goring and also uh pancakes just because there you go four should go for the noodles but the smells
in here are incredible wow thank you mama fallon which smells delicious so and then
they'll serve that really wherever we want we have that sitting area where we were
having coffee we have that uh pavilion where we ate our dinner last night which
again just to give you a show notice it's just the morning with that morning mist uh
all of these houses these traditional houses are filled with rice and um that one
is where we had our our dinner okay there's no boulevard yeah you saw the pigs uh westerner yeah did you like the pig yeah
big big pig yeah and that's big and a tiny well breakfast smells delicious do you want
to go peek in there you can go right in just um she's got all this garlic smells so good so
again just to get an idea of the property um i'm not quite sure what this building is
but it definitely looks like there's rooms pigs are down there the mausoleum for the family
is here and this is the main house where i think the family sleeps and this is where our bathroom
like that's the best it's a shared bathroom so we use that bathroom that's where the bucket
showers are gonna be we'll do some showers here just a little bit but man the property so many
animals okay he doesn't like boule so you've got i don't know it's beautiful here that's all i
can tell you really nice all the flower pots all these buildings yeah it's fantastic
all right well let's touch base to show you breakfast here in just a few minutes and just
like that breakfast is served uh the meat goring came out delicious chocolate and
like nutella pancakes all around all right how's the food cedar good yes pancakes
are delicious have you tried the noodles yes yeah you like the noodles yeah they're
really good cool forest how's the food thumbs up nice all right grab it it's delicious
yeah really nice what's your favorite so far the pancakes are the noodles nice all right uh they
also serve egg um to go with the noodles so i will give this a try it looks delicious she
was cooking a lot of garlic so i think it's gonna be pretty garlicky and pretty
delicious all right here we go the me going um the me goring delicious it's a different
kind of noodle than we're used to and it's no it's like a chewy chewy noodle
yeah chewy texture very delicious not spicy no and the garlic is subtle
so it's not like overpowering garlic i think it brings out a lot of the
flavor and i'll get some of the egg now that's just good me going all right i hope you enjoyed this look into homestay
life we're here for five days so i'm sure throughout the next bunch of videos will
be highlights from our experience here so if you're interested in the home stay aru is the
guy to reach out to his contact details are below and we'll just like yeah we'll continue uh showing off all the awesomeness of taraja and we
will uh yeah we'll see in the next video it means pork chicken or fish cooking bamboo
okay it means sticky rice cooking bamboo this one is called so this one is rice with
coconut milk must be mixed together and then it's poured in bamboo okay to cook on fire about
30 something like 30 minutes before they meet like almost one hour okay so obviously
no meat yeah sure the sticky rice can not can touch the skin of the bamboo okay
so hi so they must they pre-wrap it and then you kind of slide yeah slide down yeah like
this and this is rice with rice gluttonous rice people cook sticky rice with coconut in
bamboo scorpio when they celebrate their harvesting ceremony harvest ceremony yeah thanksgiving ceremony in the
church i see after festing the rice yeah okay well at the moment
it's just the three of us and kelly you want to serve so we just we
unwrap and your camera we can open the lips banana leaves okay and then just eat it go for
it all right yeah go for it let me know yeah you'll be the taster this is served with coffee
perfect yeah black uh tiraja coffee all right digging in granite's first oh smells
good it's like um what taste is it like um coconut rice ah coconut rice like
in thailand maybe yeah nice delicious a little bit yeah all right cal what
do you think i am excited to try it out part of the husk delicious all right i can't hold back
any longer thank you so the coconut rice yeah i wonder if they add salt to it you think very familiar flavor with um like when
i think of like a thai uh sticky rice with um mango or something but this is uh
really good cooked in the bamboo 30 minutes over the fire and it comes out with the uh sticky
rice with the with the with the coconut milk all right just a little added bonus when you stay with mama fallon and papa fallon at their home
stay little surprises like this very tasty