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Coffee,
Cloud Forests,
Islands
PANAM A
Words by Lauren Kramer
Photos courtesy of Autoridad de
turismo de Panamá
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If you want the champagne
of coffee, the world’s most
expensive, there’s just one
place to go: Boquete, a small
town on the slopes of the
Barú Volcano in Panama’s
Chiriquí province. Boquete’s
Geisha coffee, which sells
for a whopping $600 per
pound, is coveted by Asia’s
high society for its jasmine,
flowery taste and relative
unavailability.
Panama is a small, modest
player in the coffee industry,
but what it does produce
consistently wins the top
awards in the world’s coffee
competitions.