Friday, October 1, 2010

Two days ago we visited a coffee farm, una finca de cafe. And we saw the coffee trees, intermixed with sugarcane and banana trees. Everything you need, really. We had a tour and explanation of how coffee is roasted, and that espresso has less caffeine than coffee roasted shorter times, for regular coffee. They also sold chocolate, powdered with 10% sugar, 10% cinnamon, and we sampled some. It wasn´t quite as entertaining as our tour with the eccentric farmer of macademia nuts, but it was still good. I forgot something about the former tour- when we arrived, he told us about his church, that it was wonderful, would cure all your ills, would change your life, etc. And brought us to this little tiny house very minimally constructed but private, with grass for the floor and trees and plants growing around and inside, and when we walked inside, it was a bathroom! He said one time he didn´t go to the bathroom for 5 days, but then he did in this bathroom and it was a religious experience and he consructed a skylight right above the toilet, some kind of plastic that isn´t transparent exactly but allows light to shine down on the toilet. He is a character. Tonight we go all night by bus to Guatemala city, then to Tikal, a huge mayan ruins. Sleep all night on the bus then wake up in Tikal, more or less. Then Saturday we will return by bus to Guatemala city, to the airport.

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