Zona Café
Last day in Manizales I took a day trip to a nearby coffee farm, since this is the centre of the “zona café” in Colombia. The 1/2 an hour buses to get to the farm had great views of the coffee and banana plants covering the mountains in this area. After the bus let me off on the side of the road I walked up the gravel track up to the farm, surrounded by coffee fields and lined with palm trees.
I joined the tour (en espanol) that had just started and was taken all over the farm, seeing the plants close up and the beans at every stage of production right up to the cup of coffee freshly ground and made in front of me at the end of the tour. Since I’m not a coffee maniac, I usually only occasionally drink a coffee beverage (normally cappuccino) I didn’t know too much about it. I learned a lot about coffee production which pleased me doubly since it meant I’ve progressed in my spanish comprehension in the last couple months.
A really cool thing about the farm, is that it’s not just coffee plants. Sure they dominate the land use %, but there’s bamboo groves, lots of plátano and banana trees (including purple ones that are apparently hallucinogenic…), various other tropical fruit trees and even the odd cacao or macadamia tree. Most of which I’d never seen the plants of before.
Also a fair few cool, large, jungle flowers.
After the tour of the fields and processing machines we walked up to a lookout viewing the whole area. Even saw a snake climbing bamboo on the way…
Once I’d had the cup of coffee and the complementary fresh fruit salad it was back to the bus stop and a bus to Manizales where I finished the day off with a dinner of Patacon. Keeping with my one-a-day regiment of those I have prescribed myself. Tomorrow it’s back to Medellin, where I’ll spend my last 3 days in Colombia.
Tags: Colombia, Travel
Adam
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