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- Cacao tour and chocolate making: you crack pods, suck the sweet pulp off the beans, then grind roasted nibs on a stone metate into hot, bitter chocolate you can sweeten yourself.
- Sugarcane press: an ox-driven wooden mill squeezes fresh juice, and the guides boil it down to dark, sticky sugar sold as dulce.
- Coffee roasting demonstration: you see beans go from green to brown and smell the roast fill the open-air shed before tasting a cup.
- Ox cart and oxen: the painted ox cart, a national symbol of Costa Rica, is explained by guides, and you can meet the working animals.
- Traditional lunch: a rustic farm meal of rice, beans, plantain and tortillas made on site, eaten in the open air.
- Tropical fruit tasting: slices of fresh local fruit are passed around, often including varieties you will not see in
- Cacao tour and chocolate making: you crack pods, suck the sweet pulp off the beans, then grind roasted nibs on a stone metate into hot, bitter chocolate you can sweeten yourself.
- Sugarcane press: an ox-driven wooden mill squeezes fresh juice, and the guides boil it down to dark, sticky sugar sold as dulce.
- Coffee roasting demonstration: you see beans go from green to brown and smell the roast fill the open-air shed before tasting a cup.
- Ox cart and oxen: the painted ox cart, a national symbol of Costa Rica, is explained by guides, and you can meet the working animals.
- Traditional lunch: a rustic farm meal of rice, beans, plantain and tortillas made on site, eaten in the open air.
- Tropical fruit tasting: slices of fresh local fruit are passed around, often including varieties you will not see in supermarkets back home.
- Farm wildlife: birds and the occasional howler monkey pass through the trees around the plantation, so keep your ears open on the walk.
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