We have recently set up a 'Sipi Coffee Tour', and we've been getting great feedback from everyone who's been.
Sipi Falls is home of Bugisu Washed Arabica Coffee - one of the finest coffee's in the world! On the tour we take you to visit local farmers and their plantations and you learn from them the work involved in making great coffee. You will see the different stages in growing the plant and may even get to help out in some of the work. We take you to a nursery first and afterwards to a mature plantation.
At the nurseries you get to plant your own coffee into what will soon become a big new plantation. Sipi River Lodge is working with local farmers to develop a new nursery and plantation specifically for education purposes.
-A mature coffee plant growing in Sipi-
Even out of season there are a few berries left on the trees, so we'll show you how to pulp the coffee and extract the beans. Another chance for you to get involved...We tie in the walk to the plantations with the main waterfall walk, so you also get to see the stunning scenery of the area along the way.
-Sipi Falls-
After a little break and some lunch at the lodge we'll take some of our coffee and show you how to prepare it for roasting. Then we'll get a fire going and roast the beans in the traditional way.
-Roasting the coffee over the fire-
We've only been running these tours for a few weeks but they've already become one of our most popular activities. The emphasis on these tours is to run them as a community project, so we give a good donation from the cost of the tour to the farmers who you will meet on their plantations, as well as paying our guides well. As we continue to develop the tours we are working with the local farmers to help show you the many skills involved in coffee farming and to help them benefit from passing their knowledge on to us.
More information can be found on our website...
