Smelling and slurping coffee
on Rob Wootton (Zambia), 13/Aug/2011 08:16, 34 days ago
There are some weeks that I make endless lists of things to do and on one of them I have resolved to ensure that by the time I leave Mazabuka I have ticked off all of the local‘attractions’. This includes visiting the Zambia Sugar factory, seeing Nakambala Leopards play a premiership football game in Maz, taking the local train at least one stop along the railway line and visiting the local coffee farm. So today 13 of us headed off to Munali coffee (www.munalicoffee.com– a farm around 30mins from Mazabuka. For a while I thought that there had been no communication about us coming (all my responsibility) but then a safari vehicle appeared and off we went around the coffee estate to see the growing, washing, fermenting and drying of the beans. We went into the factory and then did lots of loud slurping with our coffee tasting, trying to work out which flavour of bean – from cheap to expensive – we preferred. There is also a flour mill on the farm as they grow wheat, so we went around the mill, seeing some large object shaking away which looked like a 3double wardrobes fitted together but turned out to be a giant sieve for the flour. We left with some goodies – coffee at factory prices and some freshly baked bread for free.