Indonesian Coffee Tree planting Manor

It is understandable that because of the price of this coffee, sellers are as neurotic as gold prospectors in the past to protect their trade secrets. But I had a real interest in seeing the animal and looking for its droppings. Because mass-produced cat coffee is not really the best of legends. According to legend, the rarest and most high-end civet coffee beans are not produced artificially, but by wild civets who use their appetite to screen the beans with the best quality and the most suitable maturity for coffee drinkers. These mysterious species haunt plantations of Robusta and Arabica coffee trees, specializing in the sweetest and most delicious fruits, and after eating the pulp, the core-coffee beans are digested smoothly in the stomach.

The sulfur contained in volcanic ash is an essential condition for the breeding of civet coffee.

The sulfur contained in volcanic ash is an essential condition for the breeding of civet coffee.

Out of curiosity, I set out to Bundowoso--, the legendary place of origin, a small town in the humid western plateau. A local driver named Sugiono took me on a winding mountain road to the civet's habitat. The terrain rose slowly, and the small village along the road looked bustling and busy. As the climate on the mountain gets cooler, the verdant rice fields on the plain gradually transform into plantations with high vegetation. Soon after, we arrived at Pos Malabar, a small border check station. I looked at the distance, and the broken outline was obviously the pass of a huge volcano, blocking most of the sky. The rich green of the coffee forest goes all the way along the rolling mountains until the green fades into the far end of the fog.

I decided to go around the mountain and look for the shadow of the civet. We walked along the winding path. All the way is a vast coffee garden, occasionally dotted with cabbage and onions. The skinny workers were working in the coffee garden and the dirty sheep were in a daze by the side of the road. Enter the national park from Pal Tuding and climb two miles to reach the crater of Kawah Ijen.

It was a tiring journey, but 90 minutes later, the road suddenly became flat and the earth suddenly opened a great panoramic picture. The blue Kawah Ijen lake shines hundreds of feet below. The exposed volcanic rocks are mottled green, brown and yellow due to the deposition of sulfur and moss. This great bird's-eye view looms from time to time as the clouds come and go and the sulfur smoke rises. If you have enough courage, there is still a narrow and steep road to the lake on the rock face.