Day 725 (24.03.09) When we'd headed out on foot this morning from Salento, a small and pretty village perched amongst the verdant hills and valleys of Colombia's main coffee growing region, we never expected the experiences that would greet us before the day was out. In all our guidebook searches and chats with locals we couldn't seem to find out anything about coffee plantations that you could visit but a guy Mark had met had said he'd been out the day before and found one you could at least walk through. So, armed with just a tiny hand-drawn map, we put on our walking shoes and took the gravel road past the cemetery leading out of town. As we walked down the road views of the lush and dramatic scenery that, with the local climate, somehow
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