After partying in Medellin we headed south to a small coffee farm. The farm is located two kilometers of the road and we walked there in the rain. We were the only guests staying there for the night and the owners / people who worked there were extremely friendly. They talked very slowly Spanish so I could understand everything, served us as much coffee as we wanted, prepared delicious food and even made a little German flag for the dinner table. The landscape around the farm was very nice - green hills with a lot of coffee trees and other plants. There were many birds in all colors near the hacienda as well. 
In the morning we got a tour through the farm where our guide explained how coffee is grown and produced. It's so much work. Workers collecting the coffee beans get paid by the amount of coffee they collect and most of them spend 12 hours daily in the fields. The beans are then washed, sorted and dried before the high quality beans are send abroad. Only lower quality coffee stays in Colombia and usually the coffee in restaurants really isn't very good.It was very relaxing at the farm and I totally enjoyed the quiet surroundings and nice landscape.
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Sounds like you are really improving your Spanish! I am jealous :-)
ReplyDeletegreat job, Cla'! :-)
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Enrica.
Thanks Enrica!
ReplyDeleteHeidi - I'm trying to work on my Spanish. Just need people that speak slow enough that I understand them.