Coffee geishas flourishing in Panama highlands

By Mike Power
Reuters

BOQUETE, Panama (Reuters) - Panama's little-known geishas are slender, exotic and seductive, and they flourish in the cool mountain air of its western highlands.

One expert was so taken with them that he says he levitated slightly after his encounter with the geishas.

But these are no kimono-clad hostesses. They are a type of coffee plant being raised here in the thousands as farmers cash in on a specialty coffee market that has flourished since a global coffee crisis hurt the quality of regular beans.

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