valle de cocora, hummingbirds and the sad end of the life of a calf

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
Down there Finca BOSQUES DE COCORA "DONDE JUANB"

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
where we will sleep tonight

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
view into the valley Cocora

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
ruminant cows

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
The Majordomo(head of the farm) returns home

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
The majordomo returns home

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
how a finca should be like

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
The Majordomo

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
The wife of the Marordomo

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
life is sweet on the farm

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
how romantic

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
something is gonna hapen

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
this morning he got milk too

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
and 50 minutes later he is in parts inside a barrel

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
Milk used to make cheese for the restaurant

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
adding rennet (more or less)

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
The curd...

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
The curd is put in boxes and...

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
Turns into cheese and the little guy knows how to do that

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
cleaning up

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
I worked with those cans 55 years ago !!

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
how peacefull for the innocent citizen

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
busy chicken

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
happy pigs

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
two noses making noise

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
4 o'clock PM,

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
wax palmes, the national symbol

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
sunset

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
sunset and the farmhouse

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
sunset and the farmhouse

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
whats happening there?

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
It can be pretty cold here

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
these horses know the track and walk home on there own

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
everywhere sugarwater and colibries

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio


Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio

Valle del cocora - Salento - Quindio
on the other side of the mountain
valle de cocora, hummingbirds and the sad end of the life of a calf
The valley de Cocora in Quindio near the community Salento has a beautiful green landscape. We stayed in farm hotel Finca BOSQUES DE COCORA "DONDE JUANB" . We were almost the only guests and the evenings and nights gave complete silence. The nights are really cold but the sunset with wonderful colors and fog make it all worthwhile. We took a horse to visit the valley with hummingbirds.
To our surprise a calf, which yesterday was happily feed by the Majordomo himself, was expertly caught with a lasso and in 50 minutes turned into meat for sausages. This was something one seldom encounters as a city dweller. But this is how rural life is.