Another “late” start today with Gustavo picking us up at 10:30am.
We drove south from Armenia this time to Recuca, a traditional Colombian coffee farm which specialises in education about how coffee is grown, picked, and processed.
As part of our tour, we tried “Tinto”, a traditional small serve of black coffee typically served in Colombia – carefully prepared for us with 100ml of hot (not boiling) water strained through 7g of ground coffee into a pre-warmed cup. We found it too bitter without sugar, but quite nice with some added. Even though we are not coffee drinkers at all, I think I could handle some traditional Tinto occasionally.
Andres and I tried picking some coffee beans, very hard work I think, especially given much of the coffee is grown on land most people would consider inaccessible – near vertical mountainsides!
We were home in time for lunch.
After lunch, I tried taking some photos of birds and the trail of leaf-cutter ants that had been busy on a nearby tree for the past few days, but we were interrupted by a bad storm.
It ended up raining heavily all afternoon, so I sat on a rocking chair under the verandah with both kids on my lap for an hour or so while Leanne got stuck into the packing.
The room looks very spacious and comfortable with a lovely outdoor verandah area.