Above: Coffee Beans....when they are ripe they will be red. There are two beans in each pod.
Above: The Coffee Plantation
To the upper right: the ride up the mountian....
To the upper right: the ride up the mountian.... Below and to the right: Macademia Nuts, ready for eatting!
This morning while we were eating pastries for breakfast, Diane came in and said we have to go to see the Carpets, they were making carpets in the square just down the street from the hotel. We went to find the young children making “carpets” out of flowers, leaves, fruits, and colored sawdust.
They were beautiful and the children making them were smiling and happy. One of the groups was not finished and invited us to help them finish. In afew minutes the processional would be coming by to celebrate the festival of Corpus Christie or the Body of Christ. (we have pictures that will be added soon). We had to leave before the procession.
We drove out of town and up a steep mountain. Through many small villages to go to a coffee plantation. The roads were unbelievable. Though recently they were paved so we were able to drive most of the way up the mountain. The road had been washed out in two places. This is one of the plantations that
We saw coffee plants and many varieties of bananas. Big ones, small ones, red, green, and yellow bananas and plantains. Plantains are my new favorite thing. They look like a banana on steroids, they are sliced and fried and seasoned with something I have not figured out yet. Then crème fresh is poured on the top. Yummy!
The coffee is not ready for harvest yet. The berries are on the tree. Each berry contains two coffee beans. This is the time for Macadamia Nuts….another favorite thing! The nuts are harvested from trees, shucked, broken and sorted and then roasted. We were able to sample the roasted nuts, and they were a treat!
I came back to the hotel for the afternoon while Dave went into the jungle to go swimming.
More later…
They were beautiful and the children making them were smiling and happy. One of the groups was not finished and invited us to help them finish. In afew minutes the processional would be coming by to celebrate the festival of Corpus Christie or the Body of Christ. (we have pictures that will be added soon). We had to leave before the procession.
We drove out of town and up a steep mountain. Through many small villages to go to a coffee plantation. The roads were unbelievable. Though recently they were paved so we were able to drive most of the way up the mountain. The road had been washed out in two places. This is one of the plantations that
We saw coffee plants and many varieties of bananas. Big ones, small ones, red, green, and yellow bananas and plantains. Plantains are my new favorite thing. They look like a banana on steroids, they are sliced and fried and seasoned with something I have not figured out yet. Then crème fresh is poured on the top. Yummy!
The coffee is not ready for harvest yet. The berries are on the tree. Each berry contains two coffee beans. This is the time for Macadamia Nuts….another favorite thing! The nuts are harvested from trees, shucked, broken and sorted and then roasted. We were able to sample the roasted nuts, and they were a treat!
I came back to the hotel for the afternoon while Dave went into the jungle to go swimming.
More later…
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