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Frozen Coffee Honey and Pulp Tea, Not Just the Cup

Most coffee tours give you coffee. This one uses the whole fruit. The tasting runs to a frozen coffee and honey drink, a typical dessert, and coffee pulp tea, which is made from the cascara, the dried fruit skin the industry usually discards and which tastes nothing like coffee at all: fruitier, closer to hibiscus. Plus the coffee itself, of course, and several other products. Before that, the plantation. Pick-up is at nine, and the drive out to San Sebastian de Palmitas is fifty minutes west through mountains, ending at an organic plantation where you go through the history, the process and the products. The traditional farmers' dress is available to wear, which most people take up. Lunch is the typical paisa one. Five hours. Up to fifteen people, in English or Spanish, with the round-trip transport. Horseback riding is not included. Moderate fitness needed, and not recommended if you are pregnant, have a spinal injury or a heart condition.