Coffee tour and Buffet Lunch with Kingstone Asilia (Arusha)

We'll welcome you to the Kingstone Asilia Family Farm in the green, peaceful outskirts of Arusha. Here we will teach you all about the history of coffee, how it came to Tanzania, and guide you through the traditional processing methods that we still use today. We'll show you some traditional Tanzanian medicinal plants and tell you the fun stories of how they are used. Depending on the season, you'll also get the chance to plant a small coffee plant in our plantation. Finally we'll reach the mature coffee trees and together we will be pick the ripe coffee cherries to fill a basket ready for processing. You will use our traditional hand-powered pulping machine to remove the pulp from the coffee coffee cherry. We'll take some pre-dried beans and show you how to pound them with a fun song and dance to remove the outer layer. Then roast and grind the beans for a delicious cup of your own processed coffee, complete with a traditional Tanzanian snack. Our tour concludes with a delicious home-cooked vegetarian lunch, prepared by our own chef with fresh ingredients. Children under the age of 5 do not have to pay for this activity (it's free!).