客棧日記 Guesthouse Diary – 歎啡@懸崖居

5/12/2014

阿姨走了第二天,我們正在餐廳吃著我自己煮的午飯,來了一個人。

還好我們有過一面之緣,我記性還可以,一眼把他認出來,要不然可能也不會有下面的故事….

小陳以前也在陽光客棧做過一段時間的義工,前前後後約三個月吧,後來,他在離多依樹觀景台約800米的黃草岭村,開了一家客棧「懸崖居」。我們之所以知道一點背景,當然也是叔叔和阿姨說的,早一陣子,下午沒有客人,叔叔建議去小陳那裡喝咖啡,結果摸了門釘,只在回頭的時侯碰到了小陳,就是這樣有了一面之緣。

小陳眼見現在淡季,打算回家放放假,本來是來跟叔叔阿姨打個招呼,卻被我們纒上了,為的就是想要歎一杯好咖啡。聽說他那邊有啡歎,我們厚顏地問一下我們能不能上門嘗一下,我們就在當天走到懸崖居。第二天也去了,抄了另外一條梯田山路,爬了陡陡的坡上去!!

很久沒有喝到一杯好咖啡了!! 而且還是小陳親自煮的虹吸管咖啡和手沖咖啡,實在太讓人感動!!! 懸崖居在去年十一才開業,原來叔叔阿姨也沒有來訪過(上次又摸了門釘),我們到處參觀了一下….

懸崖居故明思義是坐落在一個懸崖上,

超過180度的梯田景觀,也能看到日出,和梯田的距離是遠了一點,但是景觀很大氣,很不錯!這裡沒有戶外的田原,但優勝在室內的格調做得不錯,感覺很有品位,也很精緻。這裡和陽光客棧是截然不同的風格,定位和定價也不在一個點上。

再說,我們第一天去的時侯未帶相機,只是拿手機隨便拍一下…咖啡歎了一會,下起大雨,我們當然繼續歎,等停雨…過了一陣子,小陳大聲叫我們,跑出去,原來是彩虹,而且是在我們的下方,梯田的上面,美極了!!彩虹慢慢變淡的時侯,淡淡的,我們的眼睛看到卻是帶著淡淡彩虹顏色的梯田,好奇妙!

如果不是懸崖居要休假了,可能我們還是會每天去歎啡!!!

By: Jo

The next day after auntie left, while we were having lunch, a visitor came. 

Luckily, we met once and I still remember him, or the story won’t happen.

Greg has also volunteered at Sunny Guesthouse in the past, for almost three months altogether.  Later on, he started his own guesthouse at HuangCaoLing village, 800m from the DuoYiShu viewing deck. A while ago, in an afternoon when there were no customers, uncle Tong suggested that we go to the Cliff House for coffee.  Unfortunately, Greg was not there when we arrived but we met him on our way out.  That was when we met for one second.

Greg decided to take a break and go home during this low season.  He came to say bye but ended up seeing us only.  We heard that he has coffee at Cliff House, so asked him if we can go. So, we went there shortly after, and went again on the next day, taking a different road, walking along the terraces, climbing up a very steep path.

We have not had a cup of good coffee for a long time!! To our surprise, Greg made us siphon and hand drip coffee, we were so impressed and touched by the coffee!!  The Cliff House was only opened last Oct, we come to know that auntie and uncle Tong have not come after it has opened (last time we all missed it), so, we took a tour of the guesthouse.

The Cliff House by its name is located right on a cliff.  It has an over 180 degree view of the terraces, and can also see the sunrise.  It is not so close to the terrace but you can see a bigger view, very nice too!  There is no outdoor space at all, but their indoor decoration is very good, cozy and stylish.  The Cliff House and the Sunny Guesthouse are two totally different styles and even their pricing and market strategy are totally different.

On our first visit, we did not bring a camera, just taking some photos using our phone… while we were enjoying our coffee, it started raining, we felt that we’ll just wait for the rain to stop before we left…after a while, Greg asked us to come out, when we went out, we saw a rainbow below us, and hanging above the terrace, it was so stunning!!! When the rainbow slowly fainted away, we saw the terraces in a splash of rainbow colours, this was amazing!!

If the Cliff House is not going to close for vacation, I am sure we would be there every day for the rest of our stay here….

By: Jo