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Colombian coffee growers have launched a trail exploring their Andean plantations…

Source: Colombia: Land of natural highs

It was a minor culture shock to go from Colombia’s cloudy, cold, and cosmopolitan capital to Pereira: hot, mountain tropical, and a mere 4,600 feet.

Source: Miles of rolling mountains in the Andean rainforest and colorful colonial-era towns: Here’s what it’s like to travel through Colombia’s Coffee Triangle

Colombia – Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia

Enshrouded in the cloak of Mother Nature, Colombia’s bountiful central coffee region is South America at its greenest. But 1,900 bird species mean there are plenty of other colours on view, too.

Drip, drip, drip. The process is agonisingly slow. Drip, drip, drip. There are more entertaining ways of brewing coffee — the bubbling, vacuum syphon that we used for my first cup, complete with laboratory beakers and Bunsen burner, was like a chemistry lesson in the world’s most verdurous classroom. But, the Chemex method is, without a doubt, a labour of love.

Sure, there’s a theatricality to it.

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Colombia – Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia

Our minivan clocks up the kilometers as we head towards one of Colombia’s most majestic gardens, the Valle del Cocora, on an undulating super highway called the Autopista del Café. Flanked by the mist-covered foothills of the Central Cordillera and green verdant fields, we are barely beyond the city limits of one of Colombia’s coffee capitals, Armenia, en route to Pereira, when the scenery turns exuberant with bamboo groves dipping into every curve and wax palms swaying in the faint morning light. The journey is matched by our first destination: the Valley of Cocora, home to so many 100-year- old wax palms that, wherever you look, you feel humbled by the magnificence of Colombia’s national tree, a towering, silent guardian watching over one of this country’s great natural wonders.

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Everything about this coffee is perfection … at least until you drink it in the country it comes from.

Source: The home of perfect coffee, but they can’t make a decent cup

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It’s safe to say that Colombia is well and truly back on the map as one of Latin America’s most distinct and wonderfully characteristic destinations.

Source: PHOTOS: Wired Wanderings In Colombia’s Coffee Triangle

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If you’re the sort who can’t get moving in the morning without a cup of coffee, why not plan a visit to the Colombian Coffee Triangle in the foothills of the Andes and discover just where this magic bean comes from and the traditional techniques that make it the best coffee in the world.

Source: On the scent of fine coffee in Colombia