I was panicking a little bit this morning as the two cash machines in the town square were not working and I was getting low on Pesos. Luckily by the time I came back from the coffee farm tour one of the machines was up and running again.

There are a lot of coffee farms around Salento but I had heard good things about the Don Elias Finca so we decided to go there. It’s a small organic coffee farm and our guide showed us around and explained how the coffee was made too.

As the farm is organic they plant fruit trees such as banana and orange trees which attract the insects and keeps them off the coffee plants. They also plant avocado trees to provide shade for the coffee plants. The coffee is harvested twice each year and after both 8 and 16 years the coffee plants are cut back to around 15cm so a new plant grows. And after around 20 years the plant is dug up and a new coffee plant is planted.

Our guide talked us through the removal of the pulp, the drying, the peeling and the roasting process. The best grade coffee is exported and the lower grade coffee is sold in Colombia itself.

Following the coffee farm tour Bob and Peter departed for Call and I went and had a huge Colombian lunch.

I then decided to burn off some of the calories I had consumed and walked up to the Mirador over Salento- some great views of the town from.up there.

I walked across from this lookout to another one just a few metres away.

I went for a quick afternoon nap before heading out to get some dinner – I was craving something healthy so had a massive salad which was so tasty.

It poured with rain and we had thunderstorms this evening but I went to the local Tejo hall – it’s a bit like bowling but with explosives. Basically you throw a stone to try and hit the white triangles which explode if you manage to hit them.

Tomorrow I’m off to Bogota where the weather looks a bit like English weather – rainy and colder.