Day 6 - Antigua

Today we left Chiquimulilla and traveled to Antigua. Shortly after arriving to the hotel, we took a tour of a coffee farm and got to see firsthand all of the steps involved in coffee production. The instructors had a previous connection here with a corporation called "As Green As It Gets" - a nonprofit organization that basically functions as a fair trade organization. We hiked up the side of one of the volcanoes with two small coffee plants. Suzanne was bold enough to plant one of them herself and later joking noted that perhaps she had missed her calling in life... after all, it was quite an exhilarating experience. We got to enter two different homes of coffee farming families and view the entire coffee making experience from planting a seed to planting the tree in the ground to grinding and sorting the coffee beans. All of us were blown away by the time that is invested in making a single pound of coffee. If anyone is interested in buying from this corporation and its farmers (the coffee is AMAZING!!!), you should check out their website. They can ship to the States.