Once the elephants do their business, the wives of elephant mahouts collect the dung, break it open and pick out the coffee. After a thorough washing, the coffee cherries are processed to extract ...

Once the elephants do their business, the wives of elephant mahouts collect the dung, break it open and pick out the coffee. After a thorough washing, the coffee cherries are processed to extract ...

Once the elephants do their business, the wives of elephant mahouts collect the dung, break it open and pick out the coffee. After a thorough washing, the coffee cherries are processed to extract ...

Elephant dung coffee -- also called ‘Black Ivory Coffee’ -- costs $1,100 (Rs 72,000, approx) per kg, while a cup could cost $50 (Rs 3,300). Coffee beans harvested from droppings are a huge hit ...

Once the elephants do their business, the wives of elephant mahouts collect the dung, break it open and pick out the coffee. After a thorough washing, the coffee cherries are processed to extract ...

A Thai mahout's wife jokingly poses with a plastic basket containing coffee beans freshly cleaned from elephant dung below the tail of an elephant in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand.— ...

Once the elephants do their business, the wives of elephant mahouts collect the dung, break it open and pick out the coffee. After a thorough washing, the coffee cherries are processed to extract ...

Just one thing though: The coffee beans are harvested from elephant dung. Oct. 16, 2012— -- Anantara Resorts, one of the world's most expensive resort chains, has debuted some of the world's ...

A gut reaction inside the elephant creates what its founder calls the coffee's unique taste. In the lush hills of northern Thailand, a herd of 20 elephants is excreting some of the world's most ...

The elephant dung coffee is made from beans eaten and digested by elephants living on a reserve in Thailand. When animals pass the beans in their excrement, they are harvested, cleaned up and ...