The Bolaven Plateau
The Bolaven Plateau lies at an elevation of between 1000 and 1300 metres above sea level. It’s crossed by several rivers and home to many attractive waterfalls. The Plateau has its own micro-climate, with cooler temperatures and abundant precipitation – making it especially suitable as a coffee-growing region.
Laos’s largest coffee plant has its own coffee plantations here, and also buys the coffee output of others from villages.
Rivers cut through the tough volcanic landscape of the Bolaven Plateau, emerging as dozens of beautiful waterfalls, of differing sizes and appearances. People of all ages and nationalities make a trip here to see these marvels of nature.
An obligatory stop at the waterfall – surrounded by the coffee plantations. “Mr Coffee”, as he’s called here, is a native of the Netherlands. The way that he makes coffee is something between a concert performance and an educational lecture.
An obligatory stop at the waterfall – surrounded by the coffee plantations. “Mr Coffee”, as he’s called here, is a native of the Netherlands. The way that he makes coffee is something between a concert performance and an educational lecture. The most expensive coffee beans are kopi luvak – they get their special quality by being passed through the intestines of a musang beast
The woman running the hotel is Belgian, and only recently moved here from Vietnam – she’s very enthusiastic about working in Laos. She wants to show her ginger flowers, which grow in her garden. Europeans are often to be found running hotels in Laos.
