Pyin Oo Lwin Coffee Farm

Locally, the agriculturist explains the grinding of raw coffee.

All Coffee Lovers: 3-Days Pyin Oo Lwin Coffee Plantation Tour

Visiting the floral town of Pyin Oo Lwin, you will learn the real importance of farm to fork food while sampling coffee at one of the best coffee plantation in Myanmar. This 3 day trip begins with the pick up from your Mandalay hotels and the drive to Pyin Oo Lwin (Maymyo), a favourite mountain resort about 69 km from Mandalay.

Explore the village square and ride in a horse-drawn carriage through the enchanting city. Next morning you go to the Sithar coffee farm in the hillside city at 3,300ft. altitude - an excellent place to grow coffee. Walk for about two hrs through juicy, tree-lined coffee plantations to see how coffee crops are cultivated and reaped.

You will be guided by a native grower through the grinding of coffee before you have the opportunity to put on a picker' s tray and start harvesting the deep-reddish, mature coffee-bean. Fresh roast coffee is tasted with a pouring technology before being brought to the Pan Taw Win Restaurant to taste a tasty dinner and the magnificent view of the gardens.

The Peik Chin Myaung Calcareous Stone Dripstone Grotto offers an opportunity to admire an subterranean creek and a variety of colorful Buddhist writing featuring Stupa and Buddha pictures before returning to Mandalay the next mornings. It is best to come to the coffee farm between November and March.