We spent the morning of day 3 lounging around Hacienda Bambusa, which is a pretty ideal place to lounge around. After an early lunch, we took off for the San Alberto coffee plantation. If you're a coffee drinker, you should visit a coffee plantation perched on the side of the Andes mountains once in your life to really appreciate the hard work that goes into making your morning cup of joe. WOW.
We had a perfect cup of pre-tour coffee, followed by a walk around the plantation to see how coffee is picked, sorted and dried, before it's roasted to perfection. After that we learned how to taste coffee (like a professional, not like a morning coffee drinker). You can call me Juan Valdez if you want.
The tour in photos:
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| a bag of beans |
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| a coffee plant with red (ripe) beans, ready for picking |
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| our guide making a perfect cup of coffee with the coolest German coffee-making contraption ever. |
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| THE perfect cup of coffee |
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| beans that will one day become the nectar of the gods |
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| the longest-term worker at San Alberto |
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| he works hard for the money |
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Mac in the tasting room, taking the testing VERY, VERY seriously
After a lovely 3 days, we returned to Bogota with a return trip already planned for late June. Paradise awaits....
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