Rosso Journal
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Pyin Oo Lwin
I'm on a 4am flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong as I write this summary to our first trip to Myanmar. I'd like to sleep, but I have a theory that staying up on this flight will help me acclimate...
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Ywangan
Ywangan is the largest coffee producing region in Myanmar. We’ve spent the last two days here doing the same sort of things we do everywhere else - try to take over the world. Just kidding, that’s just a 90’s joke...
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Pinlaung, Part 2
It's 4:00pm and we're on the road to Ywangan, the second of three coffee producing areas we'll visit during our trip.This morning we went back to Behind the Leaf Coffee for a second day with Melanie and U-Khine. We have...
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Pinlaung, Part 1
It's our second night in Myanmar and we've just arrived at Hotel Pinlaung Resort (the lack of warm water, the false advertising on free wifi and the astroturf carpet has us hesitant on the resort portion) for our accommodations for...
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São Lourenço
On Friday, we left Poços de Caldas to go to an even smaller town called, São Lourenço, because the Brazilian National Barista Competition was happening over the weekend. Lucky for us, we had the opportunity to meet some of the...
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Poços de Caldas
On Sunday, August 20th we land in Brazil for the first time in our coffee careers. For those that don't know, Brazil is the largest exporter of coffee in the world, shipping nearly 6 billion pounds in 2016. Nearly doubling...
