While travelling in Indonesia I was lucky enough to be able to sample the world's rarest coffee!! Here's my report on it.
So where does the world's rarest coffee come from? Well as a traveller you quickly learn that everywhere advertises and promotes themselves as "the world's best", "the world's highest", "the world's cheapest" etc. so to be honest I normally take no notice of such things. Singapore is a city renowned for exaggerating stuff and quite frankly on my few trips there it has made me cringe the amount of things they claim to be the world's best or the world's first.
So earlier this year I was on a tour round North Bali in Indonesia with my Brazilian friend Rodrigo and we came across a coffee plantation in amongst the many rice fields of Bali. After a quick visit to the actual plantation, we were shown a bizarre creature living in a cage. This creature in the Luwak Fox! (The what? - it seemed to me to be a strange mix between a wolf, cat, dog and fox). Why am I telling you this? Because the Luwak Fox is a rare breed and it relies on red coffee beans to survive.
The strangest and most flabbergasting fact of this is that the Luwak Fox eats these coffee beans and they come back out in its excretion (yes, it's poo poo!) so this apparently is how the world's rarest coffee is made - from the poo poo of the Luwak fox. Disgusting maybe but life is short and adventurous and I was very much up for trying this amazing Luwak Coffee!!
We noticed a bonus option was to try an alcoholic version of it - so we did - they added a drop of booze into our Luwak Coffee!
The cafe we went to is in Munduk and called Kubu Kopi, but there are a lot of cafes around. If you are on a day tour get your driver to take you to a coffee plantation. It would be hard to find by car to be honest but make sure you're in or around Munduk if you want to try it. The coffee is available all over Indonesia and is also exported so being in Bali isn't your only option by the way!
A picture of the Luwak fox appears on the menu and the coffee is priced at around $8 US dollars. I guess the cheapest place you will get it is here in Bali, at the source. But come on this is the world's rarest coffee and is worth trying! But is it any good? Yes, we loved it - and it arrives in a wooden cup and saucer so you can drink in a unique environment with a view of the many gorgeous fields of Bali without a care in the world.
It's coffee time for me now - will have to go for a more normal one this time! Happy travels!
Where can you get the world's rarest coffee? - In Munduk, Bali, INDONESIA (plus its exported)
What's the name of the world's 'rarest coffee'? - Luwak Coffee
How much will it cost you? - Less than 10 US Dollars (mine was around 8USD)
What's it made of - to be blunt it's the poo poo from the Luwak Fox (which has eaten red coffee beans!)
Should you try it? Of course!! You only get one chance in life, live it!!
So where does the world's rarest coffee come from? Well as a traveller you quickly learn that everywhere advertises and promotes themselves as "the world's best", "the world's highest", "the world's cheapest" etc. so to be honest I normally take no notice of such things. Singapore is a city renowned for exaggerating stuff and quite frankly on my few trips there it has made me cringe the amount of things they claim to be the world's best or the world's first.
So earlier this year I was on a tour round North Bali in Indonesia with my Brazilian friend Rodrigo and we came across a coffee plantation in amongst the many rice fields of Bali. After a quick visit to the actual plantation, we were shown a bizarre creature living in a cage. This creature in the Luwak Fox! (The what? - it seemed to me to be a strange mix between a wolf, cat, dog and fox). Why am I telling you this? Because the Luwak Fox is a rare breed and it relies on red coffee beans to survive.
The strangest and most flabbergasting fact of this is that the Luwak Fox eats these coffee beans and they come back out in its excretion (yes, it's poo poo!) so this apparently is how the world's rarest coffee is made - from the poo poo of the Luwak fox. Disgusting maybe but life is short and adventurous and I was very much up for trying this amazing Luwak Coffee!!
We noticed a bonus option was to try an alcoholic version of it - so we did - they added a drop of booze into our Luwak Coffee!
The cafe we went to is in Munduk and called Kubu Kopi, but there are a lot of cafes around. If you are on a day tour get your driver to take you to a coffee plantation. It would be hard to find by car to be honest but make sure you're in or around Munduk if you want to try it. The coffee is available all over Indonesia and is also exported so being in Bali isn't your only option by the way!
A picture of the Luwak fox appears on the menu and the coffee is priced at around $8 US dollars. I guess the cheapest place you will get it is here in Bali, at the source. But come on this is the world's rarest coffee and is worth trying! But is it any good? Yes, we loved it - and it arrives in a wooden cup and saucer so you can drink in a unique environment with a view of the many gorgeous fields of Bali without a care in the world.
It's coffee time for me now - will have to go for a more normal one this time! Happy travels!
Where can you get the world's rarest coffee? - In Munduk, Bali, INDONESIA (plus its exported)
What's the name of the world's 'rarest coffee'? - Luwak Coffee
How much will it cost you? - Less than 10 US Dollars (mine was around 8USD)
What's it made of - to be blunt it's the poo poo from the Luwak Fox (which has eaten red coffee beans!)
Should you try it? Of course!! You only get one chance in life, live it!!
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To find more about crazy coffee tours and Coffee in East Timor check out the overlanding Indonesia part of Don't Stop Living travel website..
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