 Serving Jamu tonics / The Clubhouse, Losari Coffee Plantation Resort |
 I am luxuriating in my free-form bath, watching the equatorial rain pelt down outside the picture window. Twin volcanic cones lurk behind the sodden clouds, a vista framed by fecund tropical foliage in tones of russet and emerald green. The coffee bushes on this old-established estate must be flourishing, but we’ll find out on tomorrow’s plantation tour.
A venerable coffee plantation has been reborn as a boutique resort in the mountains of central Java.
Coffee plantations usually conjure up images of indigenous workers toiling in tropical heat for a few pennies a day. At Losari Coffee Plantation Resort, a former Dutch colonial plantation surrounded by smouldering volcanoes in the Indonesian heartland of central Java, work is a distant memory.
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