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Dive into Costa Rica’s coffee culture with your hands-on brewing experience! In just four hours, you’ll explore three iconic methods—French Press, Chemex, and traditional Café Chorreado. Learn how roast and technique shape flavor, brew your own aromatic cups, and taste the difference yourself. Enjoy a delicious lunch, connect with local coffee traditions, and finish with a fun Q&A. Perfect for coffee lovers ready to sip, learn, and savor every moment!

San Luis Viewpoint Enjoy local coffee while overlooking the mountains where Monteverde’s first agricultural communities emerged. Learn about rural life, mountain agriculture, and how the forest once provided food, medicine, and survival. Rural Experience Walk through a local rural space where plants, cooking, and agriculture are still part of daily life. Discover edible and medicinal plants, local products, bees Taste local products and connect with a slower, more intentional way of living. Historical Transition Stop Reflect on how dairy production and community organization transformed Monteverde’s economy and landscape, helping shape the region’s transition toward conservation and tourism. Includes a small local cheese tasting. Traditional Cooking Experience at Sensoria Monteverde Cook together over a traditional wood-fired stove using local ingredients inspired by rural Costa Rican cuisine. Connect with people and the origins of cooking locally!

Begin with the fascinating history of cacao — the “drink of the gods.” From its cultural roots to its importance here in Costa Rica, you’ll discover the process step by step: harvesting, fermenting, grinding, and of course… tasting real chocolate! Next, explore one of Costa Rica’s most famous treasures: coffee. Learn how this golden bean shaped our culture and economy. Visit our coffee showroom with live plants and traditional tools, discover the art of café chorreado Finally, enjoy the sweetest part of the tour: the trapiche. Watch sugar cane being pressed and taste agua de sapo, a refreshing and traditional Costa Rican drink.

We will educate our visitors on coffee, cacao, chocolate, sugarcane, vanilla, medicinal plants, history, culture and many more aspects that will help you understand the vast importance on this topics within the central american cities. We will tour for 2 hrs. 30 minutes for lunch and 30 minutes for transportation. For a total of 2 hrs of effective tour time and 3 hrs total.

Avoid the disappointment of struggling to see wildlife in Manuel Antonio National Park by going with a guide. Learn more about the park’s rich biodiversity than you would wandering around alone. Your guide will find where animals such as sloths and frogs are hiding, and you can get a closer look through the provided spotting scope.

We will take you around our cacao plantation and vanilla to educate and learn before all the eating and sampling of coffee and chocolate products. We will have lunch and any more snacks that will make you happy.

We offer more than just chocolate, Firstly, the chocolate tour begins with the cultural and biological background of cacao in Costa Rica. It further introduces into the collecting, fermenting, grinding and finally the making of chocolate, the drink of the gods. Secondly, we talk about coffee and its importance for Costa Rica's economic and cultural development. We have a showroom with important coffee picking instruments and a better explanation of the process of coffee production. We want to show you how to make Café-Chorreado, the real Costa Rican practice of preparing coffee. Amongst other sampling methods. Finally, we want to look at one of the most important aspects of Costarican culture and tradition, the trapiche: A sugar cane mill. Here we grind sugar cane to extract the juice and make all kinds of local and delicious candy. This is for sure the sweetest tour in the area. We have recently added a MEDICINAL PLANTS GARDEN TO OUR EXPERIENCE AND A CHOCOLATE FACTORY

Besides all the delicious chocolate samples we have for you and all the information provided by your expert guides, we are located only 10 minutes from Quepos and Manuel Antonio beach.