Daily fresh roasted coffee in Paksong.
Koffie's meeting point in the Laos Coffee Capital Paksong is the only place in Paksong with real coffee, just on the main road Pakse - Paksong - Tat Lo/Attapeu. (Look for the sign "COFFEE" on the main road)
Koffie organizes 3 different coffee events. a daily coffee tour, a coffee trekkings and a coffee workshop.
All events starts in Paksong at Koffie's place.
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Mar 05 2010
We walk through the Coffee Capital for around 1,5 hours, we see coffee from seedling to red berry in different qualities and ages, between October and Februari we 'see' also coffee picking and the whole coffee processing.
Before we visit the different family owned coffee farms in Paksong we drink first a top selection coffee at Koffie's place at the mainroad Pakse-Attapeu,
This tour is very informative and everthing is explained from a farmers and an European perspective, Koffie speaks English, German and Dutch.
Before we go to a Bolaven family owned organic coffee plantation in the jungle from Paksong we drink a top selection coffee at Koffie's place in Paksong.
Together with the young Bolaven owner from the coffee plantation you walk through the junlge for a 25 minutes, During the trek and your visit at the coffee plantation everything is explained in fluent!! English from a Laos coffee farmer perspective.
This tour takes around 2 hours and is also highly informative.
Koffie's coffee workshop is a 1 day hands-on event, it starts at 8 AM and we are finished around 4 PM. Its for coffee professionals and for coffee enthousiasts.
We start with coffee and breakfest, around 9 AM we go to a small organic coffee farm (transport included) with trees from 2 to 6 years old so that we can see the different stages from coffee growing, everything is explained from a Laos coffee farmers perspective and a European perspective. we stay here for around 2 hours and we finish the morning at a coffee farm to see the differences (30 minutes) Its all highly informative and we discuss different subjects.
After a good lunch at the Bolaven restaurant in Paksong we start around 1 PM with cleaning from Arabica and Robusta beans and until 4 PM we roast coffee in a wok to see and recognize all the roasting processes with all his flavors, sounds and colors. Some of the coffee you roast you bring back home and you are able to roast your own coffee back home.!
During the day we drink different types and styles of coffee.
Breakfast, coffee, transportation from Paksong to the plation, lunch and more coffee is included.
Coffee trekking
Paksong Coffee tour
Koffie's Coffee Workshop.
Koffie's Coffee Workshop
The Dutchman Koffie was traveling in Asia, visited Tibet and lived in Thailand a couple of years and bought some coffee in Paksong to roast and ship to people around the world.
The nickname Koffie was given at age 2 when he started drinking the leftover coffee from his mother's coffee cup.
It was in Paksong on a coffee buying trip that Koffie fell in love with the local coffee trader, daughter of a big family with several small organic coffee farms.
When Koffie visited Paksong as a traveller he recognized the need for a coffee workshop in the coffee capital of Laos and had an excellent excuse to develop one at the moment he was married and became a resident of Laos.
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*Paksong Market* - |
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Pakse <==============================|============> Attapeu
400M. -> * "COFFEE" *
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Free WiFi zone at Koffie's coffee place, on the mainroad Pakse-Attapeu, just 400 meters from the junction.
Free as in free of charge, 0 kip per hour.