Kampoeng Kopi Banaran

Kampoeng Kopi Banaran is a local coffee and cocoa plantation just outside of Salatiga.  It is almost like a small amusement park (not really anything like in the USA) with small rides, playground equipment, flying fox zipline, swim pool and coffee restaurant.  We had a few days off from language school so we decided to go with some friends and spend the morning there.  It was a fun time just to go to another place even though we were a little of the "attraction" because we are foreigners.

 Sharing a iced coffee with our friend Mariette

 Had the Wolff family join us too

Fun under the sun...no wait, shade!

Aaron having fun on the "flying fox"

Indonesian school field trip and they tried not to stare at us :)

Kids playing on the merry-go-round

Photo op moment

Sibling love

 Coffee berries just starting to grow along the stem, they should be turning red

around August and then harvested

One of the lookout points for "Lake Pening" a shallow lake just on the outskirts of Salatiga

 Kids are ready to take a tour of the coffee fields

 Still smiling after a bumpy ride of the mountain

 Then it started to pour like it usually does in rainy season here

Taking a little ride in the jeep

 We saw some coco trees too with cocoa pods already starting to show.  I didn't know they grew their own chocolate here

 Loosely translated means: "Drink coffee before playing sports can help women 'burn weakness or fat?' 31 percent more."  We saw some other really funny signs along these lines but I couldn't get a good clear picture of them.  Some of them said that coffee helps reduce cancer and have other  amazing health qualities.  So I should be living a long, 31-percent-fat-burning life, right?