Salento is a great little village in the mountains, lots of farms and coffee. The main reason for coming here is to go into the Valle de Cocora where some tall wax palms grow. However, the weather is not cooperating, it's only 10 klicks from town but it rains there often because of the mountains.

Arriving Salento:
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Dairy farm:
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Foot bridge:
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Valle de Cocora:
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I visited a coffee plantation yesterday which was very interesting. The type coffee that is grown here requires a certain amount of shade and there are some fantastic plants and trees throughout the plantation. The pickers receive around .76 per kilo they pick. The coffee plants only produce good coffee beans certain times of the year however they grow beans year round and must constantly be picked of the rip, (red), beans (cherries), to prevent a certain type bug infestation. Some of the coffee plants were 10' ft in height.
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Coffee plants and shade trees:
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Tour guide preparing some coffee for us:
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Short story:
Along Rt 50 a few miles before entering Honda I rode past two young boys beside the road and one had a stick poking at something. Whenever you see two boys poking at something with a stick, it's something fun! I checked my mirrors, all clear and turned around. I stopped and saw they were poking at some sort of boa constrictor that had just been run over. I guessed it to be at just over four feet in length. It still had a little life in it and the boys were daring each other to touch it, to funny! No time to take a photo, trucks are in sight, I almost lost my life 10 times over getting ahead of them and I wasn't about to loose my position. I had to go. I really regret not getting a photo of that.