Chocolate Tour "The sweetest rainforest experience"
In this tour you will discover the marvels of one of the favorite foods of humankind - chocolate! A plant originating in Mesoamerica with an extraordinarily rich history, cacao, or chocolate, was one of the most important products of the Maya and Aztec, as well as other Central American cultures.
In our country, to cite an important example, because of a lack of circulation of Spanish 'reales' during the colonial period, chocolate constituted our "money", which allowed our forefathers to acquire goods.
The Discovery of America carried chocolate to Europe where it was altered into the product we know today.
The tour includes a guided hike across the Tirimbina suspension bridge to a cacao plantation, as well as to a forested section where you will observe forest species of cacao and see how the product originally developed there. During the hike, the natural and cultural history of the cacao tree is explained.
Onsite, you will learn about the process by which cacao is processed into chocolate (harvesting, fermentation, drying, milling). There you may also taste different types of chocolate, made from organic chocolate grown by the Association of Amazilla Women of the Caribbean, a group of rural women from Pueblo Nuevo de Guacimo dedicated to the production of organic chocolate.
With this tour we cooperate in the recovery of one of our native plants, and one of the agricultural activities most friendly to the environment, connecting us with a community group which has recognized in chocolate a way to a better condition of life.
- Rate: $ 85 per person
- Pick up time: 8:00 am
- Duration: One day, including lunch
and round trip transportation from San Jose.
Costa Rica Rural Travel
Chocolate Tour
PO Box 2535-3000 Heredia, Costa Rica
(506) 237-3400 from USA / (506) 262-1891 fax
