Coffee for two

After embarrassing ourselves at yoga, our next excursion was to visit the volcano in Batur. First stop though was an organic farm where they grow coffee and cocoa alongside a host of other spices. It's a tumbling sort of farm, set on the side of a hill and overlooking rice fields far below. They brew all sorts of coffees and hot beverages including vanilla coffee, lemon, ginger and ginseng teas and a wonderfully decadent mix of hot chocolate and coffee. No, none of their beverages taste like anything you've ever bought in a supermarket. The best coffee however, and this is where my juvenile mind kicks in, is made by a civet cat. The poor thing is kept in a cage where it gorges itself all day on coffee fruit. It's unable to digest the beans however and poos them out whole. The coffee poo (I don't know what else to call it) is then collected, washed, dried, roasted and ground. The wonderful thing about this particular coffee is that once it's been through the civet's body, it comes out very low in caffeine. We bought a couple of jars and plan to serve it to our guests in Jo'burg but we're not telling them about the civet. Just kidding....