The most expensive coffee in the world: Luwak coffee - Bali, Indonesia

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Luwak coffee is the most expensive coffee in the world. While every country has to import this coffee, Indonesia does not! There are plenty of luwak coffee farms. As a result Indonesia is the cheapest place to try the Luwak coffee. So if you want to try out the coffee, this is the place to do it! Put this on your bucket list when coming to Indonesia!


Me and my friend made amazing plans. We are going to climb Mount Batur for sunrise! There are a lot of tours doing sunrise trekking at Mount Batur with a guide. But we are going to do it differently. We are going to drive there ourself by scooter, spend a night in the area and go climb the mountain ourself without a guide. It's going to be an amazing adventure!

On the way to Mount Batur, we passed by kumulilir, which is a coffee farm. We didn't know anything about it. It just looked really nice, so we stopped and went to take a look. And it turned out to be an absolutely amazing experience!

Luwak coffee

We walk through the entrance of this place. Next we get greeted by a lovely lady and she explains us that this is a coffee farm for the famous Luwak coffee. We were totally unprepared as to what this place was. But it looks really nice.

The lady proceeds to show us how the coffee is made. Luwak coffee is a very unique type of coffee. The way it is produced is that the 'Asian palm civet' eats the coffee beans. After that the coffee beans gets defecated. Next they wash the coffee beans, peal them and then they get roasted.

In the above picture is the 'Asian palm civet', the animal that eats the coffee beans. Below is a pot of the Luwak coffee.

Kumulilir coffee farm

Kumulilir is the name of the coffee farm and coffeeshop. It's an absolutely gorgeous place. We stopped here without expectations, but it absolutely blew us away. After the explanation of the Luwak coffee, it was time to try some ourself.

We each order a luwak cofee. But what we receive is a lot more! They're giving us free samples of all their teas and coffees. They have a terrace that looks over the forest and rice fields. It's so relaxing and gorgeous.

But it doesn't stop there! They also have the bird's nest viewpoints that you see in a lot of Bali pictures on Instagram. You can come and use these for free.

Jungle Lust

This has been such an amazing experience already. But it doesn't stop here. Because we find out there is an area called 'Jungle Lust'. Here they have a swing over the jungle and a brand new zipline through the jungle!

Kumulilir was very kind to let us try the zipline for free. We are one of the first to try it out. What an amazing gesture! So we gladly accept. Here is a picture of me with the ziplining team.

The zipline goes through three different stops all in the jungle. And then you go to the end. But the highlight is a treehouse in the middle of the jungle with an amazing view.

Ice cream

We have already been spoiled so much. But it doesn't end here. For our cooperation into trying out the zipline, we get rewared with free ice cream. Because, why not? They give so much value to their customers that you just want to come back and tell everyone about it! Here is a video of the server bringing the ice cream, with an amazing view.

This has been such an amazing experience we almost forgot that our goal is to go to Mount Batur! So it's time to hop on our bikes and get going.



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The preparation method of this coffee is quite interesting and awkward too..😀 I've never heard about it. If this is how they prepare it, then it would be difficult to use all the crop in the process of production and production level would be very low as compared to the ordinary coffee production. I think is also one of the factors that make the coffee so expensive. 100-500 $ for a cup is certainly too much. But, then, I guess, it would be worth it as well. What do you think? Is it better than rest of the coffee varieties. I mean, do you really like its taste and aroma in that sense?

Also, I see that you're really travelling and enjoying life. Wonderful pictures. They make me want to pack my bag also and go there. It's a mind blowing place. Thanks for sharing and bringing us along.

This coffee is $5 in Indonesia, compared to the ridiculous $100-500 price tag in the rest of the world. But I have to say that this coffee is absolutely delicious 🤤. First they let us smell and compare the coffee beans of the luwak coffee with the regular one. And the Luwak coffee just smells so much better! After tasting the coffee, I have to say that I like it. It is more mild and acid, all in all a really good coffee. Would I pay the ridiculous $100+ price for a cup of coffee? Definitely not. But for $5 and a once in a lifetime experience, yes!

I think the coffee is worth the $100+, considering the rest of the world have to import it and the supply is scarce.

I sure love to travel. I’m making the best out of life!

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Good to know.. My tongue also wants to taste it now. I will see if it's available at my place.

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Wow. You guys hit the jackpot of friendly places. Go for a coffee and end up having a great adventure. I would definitely go and try this place out as there is so much to do. As a coffee lover Luwak coffee is on the list to try and experience the flavor. Thanks for sharing such an interesting experience and look forward to more from you.

This is an absolutely amazing place! Highly recommended 😊 I hope you get the chance to try out the Luwak coffe 😉

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Alright, we get into the premise of the post if the title didn't hook me in so freaking massively: expensive coffee that sounds cool for the wrong reasons! Otherwise, that's an interesting economic factoid (ones I love very much as they skip the pretensions of stupid charts when we actually focus on what actually happens). Definitely would've put this on my bucket list if I hadn't a big hatred for coffee to begin with, but might go to Indonesia to try it out anyways...

I love planning things, especially when I allow for small things to be improvised along the way so I can sight see unexpected sights of daily life for people who are so used to their environment that they get a kick out of people are don't know certain structures exist. But I am happy that it turned out very neato for yah (and your partner in travel as well).

Luwak coffee! Now that's how you make an impression, second nature for probably the countless times they see visitors and can guess what to do to keep them interested. Now while most people, in at least as I can speak for the Western / Global North people, would barf at the idea of recycled waste, I would point out we use manure for soil enrichment for crops. So I just looked at it and said "huh, that's cool" and then I remembered how much the people I live in wouldn't eat something from recycled from defecation even if it was proven to be squeaky clean of everything bad/evil! At least the Global Periphery people are more mature when it comes to actually living. (Also that's the cutiest-patootiest angle of an animal I have never seen before and I just love it already. So many animals this Earth has spawned and not everybody in the World sees that varying animals of different parts of the World. <<<<3333!!!! Anywho, looks like any other coffee bean I could've used to make coffee right now if wanted to drink such a horrid thing that is coffee. Might make an exception to this due to how many things that break my regular perception of coffee: costs, origin, creation-n-recreation process and cleansing process. Definitely something for me to look out for.)

Well, that's something for travellers to Indonesia to keep note off if they ever stumble upon the same route yah travelled on. Definitely something I need to keep mind off if I ever acquire enough funds to travel to somewhere breathe-taking as Indonesia. I probably be agapsed if I heard the same thing even if I had already knew how Luwak coffee was made, probably because I have finally been convinced to try coffee for once. Also that's a very great thing when vendors and shoppes throw in extra stuff; not only for customary kindness but, economically for me at least, an opportunity to create a potential customer even if they are here short-term. Also shots from terraces!~ They are so pretty and capture much of the bird's eye point of view from an angle.

"Jungle Lust" already sounds like a cool place to be in. Also doing that was very sweet and very smart specially for the free promotion it can get from word of mouth (electronically and "real-life") to all sorts of people. I mean, they're playing cards right and very well here. Also tree-house view!~ (Very purty, gonna become a goop of happiness if I keep seeing beautiful picturas [pictures] like that.)

Ice cream - 'nuff said... What, 'nuff said since that's the nectar of the sweet tooth Gods. The fact that this is their reward for experimenting (and consequently talking about it post hoc) the "Jungle Lust" zipline course, well I must say they do have a golden heart despite having to also pay bills to continue operations.

Las fotos / Picturas (The photos / pictures): Okay lemme gush about those photos / pictures. Firstly, so silky smooth and clear (not smudged) they are in how they look. Secondly, so full of detail thanks to it not being smudged, I can tell a lot from foto/pictura a foto/pictura (photo/picture to photo/picture) and not have to zoom in to see stuff. Thirdly, the variety of shots taken and the variety of places within the same area - just creates a complete map of things while also exposing/implicating a lot of the area's beauty with so few fotos/picturas (photos/pictures). Also the video at the end was a nice and wholesome way to round things off. But to end this section, I really felt like these were windows I can hop into and just explore the area for a while even when things were frozen in space, you really caught the moment in moving stream of life.

El texto (The text): Okay let's make this intentionally short. Firstly, appropriate text-to-picture ratio for this kind of post and the attention each topic deserved. Sentences made picture-perfect sense for me and fit very well for the kind of post this audience is for. I say this a person that had English as their third language to be exposed too, despite it being the second language I studied under formally formally but the first language I use always in any a conversation. (The first language I know and was raised under was Polish, the second language of exposure would actually be either French or Spanish. But that's just #me factoids.) Also no syntax or grammar errors, like I expect that from a native English-speaking person anyways - damn shame if there was. Also everything is friendly in tone and I just <<<<3333 WHOLESOME!!!!~ <<<<3333

So congrats on the @curie upvote, keep on travelling and happy steeming!~

This has to be the longest comment I have ever read. I had a very busy few days. Therefore it took me a while to go through it. I’m really happy you enjoyed reading my post.

I do have to say that travellers are usually a lot more open minded than the average stay at home person. Drinking cat poop was a very unique experience, I just wanted to know what the fuzz is about. It made me curious and I had to try it. The civet cat is actually very picky and it will only eat the best coffee beans. It knows more about the coffee beans than us humans with all our technology. As a result, you will get the highest grade coffee from selectively picked coffee beans.

The people who work here at kumulilir are so kind and lovely. They know how to give value. They work on a value for value base and understand that if you give your customer more than what they pay for, they will come back. Not only will they come back, but they will talk about it and more people will come. This and the combination of a picturesque view and relaxing atmosphere makes it all perfect 👌

English is also my third language. But since I am now travelling full-time and blogging, I use it a lot more than my first language. My English is now a lot better than my second language. And it can only improve when I read, write and speak even more.

Thank you very much for your kind and extended comment. A big upvote for you and I hope you come and read again 😉

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Welcome for the comment! ~^^~

Well it's a pleasure of mine to make the comment I did and that it was, primarily, readable as well~

Yeah, it's a necessity to be open minded for sure. Well, I gotta agree drinking essentially a cat's defecation is certainly interesting. But equally so that the civet cats knows what will taste good for them, we ought to be studying the beans we feed them with. Maybe that'll fix our estimates now.

Yeah, definitely on the nicer end of the spectrum and ones that will certainly thrive for a good amount of time (hopefully!). Regarding that, they do deserve the exposure they get now and hopefully be a spot on the map for tourists that do decide to hike up that trail now.

Twinzies!~ (haha, not really but still :p) Yeah, English is not only the language of business but now also the language of the Net. So work on it and you'll be able to grasp all of the internet within the palms of your hands!!!!~ <3

Thanks for the kind upvotes and sharing this post again!~

It's 5 dollar for a coffee? That is certainly agreeable compared to the $100 - $500 for a single cup. I'm not sure if I want to taste it though because of how it is created, but your adventure definitely sounds and looks amazing. Beautiful place and very generous people, it seems like a great place to visit.

Grats for the curie vote :).

Is this a wild @scrawly I see? I too actually do wonder if the taste is actually worth it for the price here as I reside in the USA. But then seeing the price there in Indonesia (at least in this post's instance), especially on a local farm being 10000% cheaper than in the USA, made me wonder the economic forces at hand. I actually imagine the price gouging is due to exporting luwak coffee beans (which will be chump change to) and then monopolized competition on luwak coffee bean - which makes it easy to make up whatever price they want to sell it at.

Otherwise, I really couldn't care that these coffee beans were recycled and defecated right out; mainly due to me having family's farmer roots from my Mother's side. Now why does that have revelancy? Well travelling to Poland and such, I learned and had to deal with manure (basically processed cow dung which is utilized for our crops and crops' soil). So we quite literally do use s*it to make good things in life, albeit more indirectly in most cases for the Global North / West.

But yeah, his trip was beautiful and purty (and definitely needs to be a place I travel when I have the moniez to do anything in life)~

The coffee is really delicious 🤤 I also don’t care an animal sht it out. I’m a farmer’s boy myself, we use sht to grow our crops. The beans get cleaned really well before roasting. The price is absolutely magnificent here in Indonesia. I think it should be on many people’s bucket list while travelling in Indonesia. It’s a once in a lifetime 😊

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Nice. Didn't knew you were a farmer's boy, nice. Triple nice on the price (I could assume how much better it really is). Well, now I need a bigger bucket.

I would not try it for $100+ either. But $5 makes it a really well worth once in a lifetime experience. Not only did we get the Luwak coffee, but also all the samples, ziplining and ice cream for a total price of $5!!

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cool post and very nice photos

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I have never visited Indonesia in my life, but it is a country that I would like to know. I have some friends who live in Jakarta and they tell me that their life Is great there.
I enjoy reading your post and taking a look to your amazing photos.
Congratulations!!!
Steem on!

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well I do not have so much money to spend on coffee.
wll i have something for you. can you talk?

I forgot to mention the price in my post 🤦‍♂️ The coffee costs $5 here in Indonesia. The rest of the world has to import it and the price ranges from $100 to $500 for a single cup!

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What an experience @beforeyoupack! :)
Didn't know this coffee before, so I took a note to give it a try some time, but the whole journey looks wonderful. Looks like you had a lot of fun and some very beautiful views of nature.

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