About this tour
From the plant to the cup, on a working cacao and coffee plantation in Bijagua.
This 1 to 1.5-hour experience takes you through a cacao and coffee plantation in Bijagua, in the Tenorio Rainforest.
You follow coffee from the seedling through growth, production and harvest, then learn how it is processed and fermented and what makes the different types of coffee.
Then it is cacao’s turn: how it is planted and grafted, the varieties grown, and how the beans are processed. Along the way you hear the history of cacao among the Maleku, the Indigenous people of this region, who processed cacao long before it became chocolate as we know it.
The experience ends with a tasting.
The Chocolate & Coffee Experience is an add-on to our Sloth Encounter tour in the Tenorio Rainforest.
Itinerary
- Start
Coffee, from plant to cup
Seedlings, growth, harvest, processing, fermentation and the different types of coffee.
- Then
Cacao, from tree to bean
Planting, grafting, cacao varieties and how the beans are processed.
- Along the way
The Maleku and cacao
The history of cacao among the Maleku, the Indigenous people of this region.
- End
Tasting
Finish with a tasting.
On the farm
The Blue Sky difference
Private & personal
Just your group with a private guide and driver. Your pace, your plan.
Local & expert
Locally owned, with guides who know Guanacaste and where to find the good stuff.
Built around you
Flexible dates, hotel pickup and add-ons. We shape the day to your group.
What's included
- Guided walk through a cacao and coffee plantation
- Tasting at the end
- Your private bilingual naturalist guide and transport (as part of the Sloth Encounter)
What to bring
- Comfortable shoes
- Insect repellent
- Camera