Columbia Coffee Tour: picking wildflowers by the fence and accidentally seeing Nanshan

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I learned about Colombia from coffee. I remember that year, when I was on my way to Colombia from La Paz, Bolivia, to Washington, D.C., there was a mouthwatering smell of coffee in the hall. Cafe de Colombia (Colombian coffee) attracted me, so I sat still and tasted it. It was silky and smooth, sweet in sour and sweet in bitterness. The three flavors of sour, bitter and sweet matched well. The unique fragrance fills the whole mouth and exhales the aroma from the mouth again from the nose, a feeling of ecstasy. Unexpectedly, Colombian coffee is so domineering that the fastest speed occupies my taste buds, my mind and even my soul. The Colombian taste implanted in my heart is always unforgettable.

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After three days lost in fragrant Bogota, I came to Armenia, which is known as one of Colombia's "Coffee Golden Triangle" 160km from Bogota. Armenia is a city in the central and western part of Colombia. 1550 meters above sea level. It is a major producer and trade center of Colombian coffee.

The clouds on the plateau covered the beautiful Andes with mysterious gauze. We were driving in the beautiful countryside with green eyes outside the windows, no people on the way, no cars running, and sometimes animals wandered aimlessly in the mountains, and the air was filled with the smell of idleness and ease.

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Cafe de Colombia Columbia Coffee is a single coffee sold in the world under the name of the country. This world-famous trademark-Juan Valdez and his donkey. Although Joan Valdez is fictional, it does not hinder people's worship of Colombian coffee. Coffee is the business card of Colombia, which has won more praise than any other coffee in terms of quality. she has a very nice name "Emerald Coffee".

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When we came to Qindio Coffee Manor, the fresh air was filled with refreshing fragrance. "Walking Coffee Culture" takes us to the theme and into coffee.

The warm manor handsome guy brought cups of hot coffee and finally tasted the Colombian taste again. The faint fragrance in the sweetness, the soft and smooth taste, made him feel refreshed and refreshed. Although it was the first time to taste coffee standing up, it was still intoxicating.

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Intoxicated into the Recuca walk coffee culture manor, a tractor full of coffee beans let the beauty show her skill.

Most of the plants here are still family farms, and there is no large-scale mechanization. The planting area of coffee in Colombia has reached 1.07 million hectares, there are about 302000 coffee plantations in the country, and 30 to 40 percent of the rural population depends directly on coffee production. Although there are many farms, they are all small in area. The area of each farm is only about 2 hectares, and there are only about 5000 coffee trees in more than 80% of the coffee plantations, with an average of 3000, so it can be seen that all of them are planted in small estates.

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Colombian taste comes from the most favorable natural environment for the growth of Colombian coffee, and coming to Colombia is tantamount to coming to the "natural pasture" of coffee. The climate here is warm and humid, like spring all the year round, the annual temperature here is 19 degrees, and the weather forecast is almost useless. The coffee shop surrounded by flowers is full of coffee cups to tell you that in the world of coffee, coffee is as easy to enjoy as the fresh and warm air here.

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The staff expressed the happy life brought to them by coffee in an interactive form, and tourists impromptu the happy and romantic life of brown farmers, tracing back to the history of coffee cultivation in Colombia.

Some say it came from the sea island of the Caribbean via El Salvador in Central America; others said that coffee beans were first introduced to Colombia by a priest from the French Antilles via Venezuela. Regardless of Colombia's favorable climate, the fertile land provides a real "natural pasture" for coffee, where coffee trees have taken root since the Spanish colony in the 16th century.

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This is a magical land, not only a natural pasture for coffee, but also rich in poppies.

As Sanmao described in his travels, Colombia is a place where "cards are not played according to rules": its people experience social unrest while enjoying leisure coffee years; its land is half covered with golden coffee and half with monstrous poppies.

As a major coca grower in the world, Colombia has developed into the world's largest cocaine producer since the cannabis trade in the 1970s and 1980s. Despite the government's efforts to eradicate the drug problem, opium poppies are still blooming in this magical land with all available space due to favorable planting conditions and huge profits given by physical geography.

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Drugs and civil war have left Colombia riddled with holes. God left Colombia hope with coffee that the 1500-meter high altitude area of the Andes, with fertile soil, abundant sunshine and abundant precipitation, and the perfect natural conditions allow each coffee bean to grow long enough and brew enough rich flavor. this is a natural condition unmatched by most coffee-growing countries in the world. As a gift, Colombia has successfully grown the world-recognized high-quality coffee beans.

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Coffee is a national event for Colombia. They fight with coffee and drugs. They teach farmers to cut off poisonous varieties of coffee and earn a stable and safe income. Every event on coffee will become the focus of national attention.

The staff gave a wonderful and humorous account of the method and process of picking coffee beans. The live performances of tourists dressed as coffee farmers caused bursts of laughter at the scene. I was also involved with the live translator and enjoyed a different coffee time happily.

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When I went into the coffee garden to be a Costa Rican brown farmer, there were agate-like coffee beans scattered in the lush green, and the five-petal white flowers were particularly dazzling. Here are hand-picked coffee beans, so you can carefully pick the fullest fruit, manual picking is relatively slow, a person can pick about 30 kilograms of coffee beans a day, a kilogram of coffee beans after processing about 6 cups of coffee.

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Maybe they haven't become the champion beans yet, but every coffee that grows naturally on the earth has a surprise waiting to be discovered. Unlike other countries, coffee beans must not be picked until they are full and ripe.

The diversity of climate makes it a harvest season all year round, with different kinds of coffee ripening at different times. Here is the unique quality of Arabica coffee beans, this coffee beans ground coffee flavor, endless aftertaste, can be called coffee boutique. Nowadays, many people equate "Colombian coffee" with "high quality" and "good taste".

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The picked coffee beans are gathered together and transported to the machine for peeling treatment. After peeling and soaking for 18 hours, the fruits of good quality will sink into the water, those floating on the surface will be removed, and the shells will be fermented all the way to be used as fertilizer. Colombia pays great attention to environmental protection, and all materials that can be recycled are not wasted. Finally, the remaining coffee beans have to be sun-dried, air-dried and screened, and finally transported to the grooves for fermentation. all the processing procedures require eight processes, such as roughing, separation, classification, fermentation, drying, peeling, polishing and grading.

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In particular, Colombia is the world's largest exporter of Arabica coffee beans and the world's largest exporter of washed coffee beans. Colombian coffee beans must be washed and processed. It is this unique and meticulous process that gives off a light and elegant aroma of moderately roasted Colombian coffee, which is celebrity-like elegance, sweet fragrance, soft and smooth taste, thus winning the reputation of "green gold".

The theme park understands the past and present life of coffee. We came to a coffee garden planted along the steep slope of a volcano, overlooking a 360-degree coffee garden like a ladder like a chessboard, listening to birdsong, smelling flowers, listening to heart and watching. This picturesque pastoral scenery is touching between the lines. Let the time stop here and let the body and mind enjoy the beauty of this moment.

This natural crater surrounds the terrain to create a unique micro-climate, located on the equator, can get a superior sunshine angle and ensure full photosynthesis, and growing at high altitude can make coffee grow more slowly and full. conducive to the accumulation of caffeine and aromatic substances, so the quality of coffee here is the best.

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It takes about four months for coffee to germinate from seed to seed. Coffee needs to be cultivated in pots before it is transplanted to the real natural soil, an Arbor is built for it at the seedling stage, and tall trees or banana trees are planted around the newly landed coffee trees. to ensure a cool and humid environment for growth.

Due to the high humidity and small temperature difference in the coffee forest, coffee beans mature slowly, which is conducive to the accumulation of caffeine and aromatics. It takes about five years for a coffee tree to grow and mature. Soil, light and precipitation are all very important factors.

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Coffee trees can bear fruit for 15 years when they mature and can be picked twice a year. Under the blue sky and white clouds, the mature coffee trees shone brightly in the falling sun, the white flowers and red and green fruits were faintly visible, the breeze came slowly in the forest, and the soft and moist air was refreshing. Nourishing the moist coffee tree swaying happy branches and leaves told me that this is the garden of Eden where coffee grew.

In fact, coffee has different flavors in different manors, even in different hills of the same manor. the story behind each coffee bean is what brown incense wants to know. Only by walking into the coffee garden is it possible to know the details, charming flavor and changeable aroma of the coffee.

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Coffee is Zen, deep and shallow, sometimes shallow and sometimes esoteric. No matter how deep or shallow it is, it contains philosophy, and you can only understand it by savoring it carefully. Coffee is similar to Zen, both need to have a quiet heart. Coffee contains the theory of Zen, and drinking coffee is a great shortcut to meditation. The sour, sweet, bitter and astringent in coffee is precisely the sour, sweet, bitter and astringent in our life. The aroma of coffee is enough to take away all worldly thoughts. Coffee is not just a cup of coffee, coffee brings people the serenity and rich connotation of Sanskrit.

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If coffee, wine and music are the nourishing products of people's inspiration, thought, soul and body, I prefer coffee and music. A cup of coffee accompanied by music is enough to make the dull time elegant and soft.

The handsome guy raised his hand around the beam with fragrance, feeling comfortable and quiet. Colombian coffee is most suitable for people who like light, delicate flowers bright and clear, like a woman's vaguely charming, charming and just right, people miss.

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Colombian coffee does not need to sit upright, holding a cup of hot coffee, it can make people realize that the best state of life is rich and quiet. Quiet, because to get rid of all false fame, rich, because there is the treasure of the inner spiritual world. Gently sip and taste, can not help but the soft taste buds stretch, a mouthful of coffee slowly swallowed, suddenly feel lips and teeth fragrance, rich taste reflected incisively and vividly, straight refreshing. Listening to the soothing music makes people feel the lingering rhyme. Warm sunshine sprinkles on the body, mellow coffee moistens the soul, wonderful music floats in the ear, the happiness and warmth of this moment is the most real, strands of hard to give up.

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Colombia's coffee cultural landscape was listed as a World Heritage site by the United Nations in 2011. Xanadu, far from the hustle and bustle of the Andes, is the so-called "picking wild flowers by the fence and inadvertently seeing the South Mountain", attracting many tourists to explore the mysteries, which is the pride of Colombians.

Colombian coffee does not have a strong and amazing aroma, but it always reminds people of the beautiful amorous feelings of this country crossing the equator, which contains a magic and real sweetness behind the bitterness.