Rio La Vieja; Mangosteens
February 22nd 2015 Rio La Vieja, and Mangosteens
We are just back from a rafting expedition here in the Zona Cafetera. This region is known for its coffee, but there are other crops grown here, very tall wax palms and also a lot of bananas, and many unfamiliar fruits such as mangosteens. All the bananas grow inside blue plastic bags, an incredible miracle of modern genetic engineering. But bananas are not a
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