About: This small family-run coffee farm offers an informative and interactive tour explaining the entire coffee-making process. They also have been experimenting making wine from the fruit of the coffee plant and offer wine tastings. Province: Alajuela Starting from: Downtown Alajuela Time to reach from starting location: 49 minutes Time needed for activity: 1.5 hours…
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Doka Estate Coffee Tour
About: This coffee tour and plantation is well-organized, as they are a large business that has been operating for years. Where it may lack in the charm some other smaller, family-run coffee tours have, they offer an organized and reliable tour as well as other services, such as lunch and/or transportation for an additional fee….
Coffee Tour El Diamante
About: This coffee tour is run by a local co-op organization, Coopeatenas, and while not as small-scale as some other the other family-run coffee tours, this co-op is able to work with the local community on several social projects and businesses like the local supermarket, gas station, hardware store, auto shop, and liquor store. This…
Choco Tour Costa Rica
About: This small, local chocolate farm offers a tour that teaches you how they grow, harvest, and process the cacao, as well as about sustainability, history, and culinary art. Their passion is reflected in the tour and you will not be disappointed. Province: Alajuela Starting from: Downtown Alajuela Time to reach from starting location: 1…
Bitzu Coffee Tour
About: This is a great option for a coffee tour near the city. It is a smaller operation than other coffee plantation, and is family-owned and therefore very personal. It is informative and interactive. In addition to learning about coffee, you will learn about hummingbirds, in particular the Bitzu hummingbird which pollinates the coffee plant…
Brewing the Forest
About: This coffee shop allows you to take a tour of their plantation, experience a coffee tasting and learn all about coffee, or just have a cup of coffee. Province: Puntarenas Starting from: Monteverde Time to reach from starting location: 7 minutes Time needed for activity: 1 hour Kid friendly: Yes Wheelchair accessible: Yes What…
The Best Pineapple Tour CR
About: One of the few pineapple tours in Costa Rica, it is a great pit stop on the way to and from La Fortuna and a unique experience. They take you around the farm on a giant wagon pulled by a tractor. They provide a ton of information about how pineapples are grown and produced,…
La Fortuna Food Tours
Options for food tours in La Fortuna:
Two Little Monkey’s Chocolate Tour
About: A very in-depth, hands-on chocolate tour. It first takes you on a tour of the farm, followed by an interactive session where you make different chocolate products as well as sugar cane juice. Of course, they sell chocolate products you can purchase as souvenirs. Province: Alajuela Starting from: La Fortuna Time to reach from…
Tree Chocolate Tour
About: This cacao farm provides interactive, hands-on tours of the chocolate-making process, teaching you everything about cacao plants and how the chocolate is extracted and made into different products. You’ll also get to taste many different things besides chocolate, including sugar cane juice and spices and ingredients that get added to the chocolate to make…