Costa Rica Coffee Tour

Begin your tour at the port where you board an air-conditioned motor coach for an approximately 90-minute drive along scenic roads, passing quaint villages on your way to Turrialba Town, where Costa Rica's topography is one of the world's most diverse. Rolling hills, high mountains, plains, valleys, and riverbeds are just part of the gorgeous landscape that make you think of one word: paradise.

This coffee tour represents our most remarkable and pure coffee tradition and its history. Arrive at your destination, an expansive farm located in the West Valley, surrounded by 800 acres of a prime coffee plantation where the secrets of a real cup of coffee are carefully held. You will learn from a coffee expert the most important aspects of the plantation, harvesting, processing and exportation. Your local expert will take you into different stations and explain the step by step process that involves what it takes to produce this much-loved worldwide product.

Station 1: "Seedlings" In our nursery you can see the different stages during the first year of the coffee plant. After this you will explore the plantation.

Station 2: "Get on the Wagon" The oxcart is a very important icon in our coffee history; in the third station you will be able to discover not only why it was so important to us but also why we paint it now with so many colors. Learn the story of our national saying "Get on the Wagon" .

Station 3: "Coffee Wet Mill" At this stop you will see and learn how coffee beans are processed. In this area you can see how coffee is peeled, selected, dried and stored. You will also view the patios where the coffee is sun dried.

Station 4: "Roasting Room" At this station, your sense of smell will be overwhelmed as the coffee aroma arises. In this huge room you can observe the big machinery used for roasting the coffee.

Station 5: "La Casita de Juancho" The next stop on the tour is a visit to an old house. This little house was built specifically so you could see how our ancestors used to live their daily life. This is the perfect spot for your guide to explain how the coffee used to be brewed, and why, even though it has been over 200 years, we still use a "chorreador" instead a coffee maker.

Station 6: "Souvenir Store" At the end of the tour you are rewarded with the chance to taste the different coffee produced on this plantation. Once you have unwrapped all the secrets within a cup of coffee and sampled your favorite you will have the opportunity to take some home for yourself to remember this remarkable day.

On your return to your ship you will be given a short city tour around Puerto Limon City all in the comfort of your motor coach.