Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine October 2016 | Page 262

A Coffee Hike in Jamaica | Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine

What started as a cool morning of eating the
Jamaican breakfast of fruit and Ackee and
Johnnycakes with Blue Mountain Coffee
became a strenuous hike into the dense mountains
behind Jacks Hill above Kingston. My husband and I
signed up for a coffee hike to get deep into the Jamaican
mountains and see just how the coffee we love is grown
and processed by the locals. Our guide Anthony met us
at breakfast and warned us to wear good shoes and bring,
“plenty water.” We set out at 8:am on what we thought
would be a nice little hike to a coffee plantation.

by Shelley Townley

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