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* This tour requires at least one of the following per booking: Adult, Senior
Your breath-taking, adventure begins with a pickup from your hotel and a relaxing private drive through the wonderful Costa Rican countryside on an air-conditioned deluxe transportation.
The tour takes place in a private biological reserve located in Sarapiqui, a small town located in the Caribbean of Costa Rica and 2 hours from the capital.
Join us on the best chocolate tour and taste one of the most delectable food from the rainforest. During this tour you will be taken through Tirimbina´s rainforest across the longest hanging bridge in the region to a traditional cacao plantation where you will have the opportunity to taste the cacao bean at its different stages in the process of making chocolate and also be involved with different preparations of it, so make sure your appetite is ready!
This is an interactive experience where besides to learn all about chocolate, you will be able to make your own bar using many different local ingredients.
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100% private deluxe transportation
2 hours chocolate tour at Tirimbina Reserve
Professional naturalist tour guide
Delicious lunch
Bottle of water
Alcoholic Beverages
Tips for tour guides
Departure Point
Traveler pickup is offered
we offer pick up service from all hotels in san jose. if yuor hotel is not listed please tell us your hotel name and we will arrange pick up
Tirimbina Biological Reserve, La Virgen, Costa Rica Tirimbina is a private biological reserve located in Sarapiqui region. In here we run the chocolate tour in an old cocoa plantation. Besides this, the reserve have the largest hanging bridge in Costa Rica 180 minutes
Braulio Carrillo National Park, Costa Rica Braulio Carrillo National Park is one of the largest protected areas in Costa Rica with 50.000 hectares and is located in one of the areas with the steepest topography of the country.
Located Northside of Central Valley in the Central Volcanic Range, among the massifs of Poas and Irazu Volcanoes. This wonderful natural treasure includes Barva and Cacho Negro volcanoes
It has a maximum elevation of 9534 feet (2906 m s.n.m.) above sea level on top of Barva Volcano and records a minimum temperature of 37.4 fahrenheit (3 ° C.) and maximum 75.6 fahrenheit (24 ° C.). Due to the large altitudinal gradient spanning the park, precipitation is very varied and ranges from 8.2 feet (2500 mm) on the slopes overlooking the Central Valley up to 18.8 feet (5734 mm) in the Caribbean slope.
Sarapiqui River, Costa Rica The Sarapiquí River, or Rio Sarapiquí, in Costa Rica is a tributary of the San Juan River and forms the eastern border of Sarapiquí Canton. The area around the river is mostly lowlands tropical rainforest, having lush vegetation with a large variety of plant, animal and insect life. During our tour you will enjoy the beauty of this river and cross a long suspention bridge over it.
Tirimbina Reserve is located just besides this river.
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Child and infant rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults
Children must be accompanied by an adult
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
Susan_H
21 Mar 2025
The private tour was a splurge but it was the only way I could find to do the chocolate tour from San Jose, and I’m so glad we did. Getting to see the chocolate-making process, with tastings along the way, from A to Z is very cool. Bonus points for wildlife.
Go11319215363
18 Mar 2025
Excellent tour. Our driver and tour guide, Josue, was very informative. professional and friendly. He was very thoughtful taking us to see a couple of extra sights, i.e. stopping by a coffee plantation and looking for sloths. The chocolate tour at Tirimbina Reserve was also excellent and a lot of fun. Our chocolate tour guide was very knowledgeable about chocolate, the hands-on demonstration was very fun and the reserve was beautiful. We all had a great time and even got to see Howler monkeys and a sloth. So glad we took this tour. Highly recommended!
jktakenaka
25 Nov 2023
Although the drive is long (2 hours from San Jose), the trip and tour were TOTALLY worth it! During the drive out (in a super comfortable bus) our guides from Greenway pointed out sights, information, and wildlife along the way.
At Tirimbina, they handed us off to a naturalist from the ecological preserve that walked us out to the chocolate tour. The presentation on the preserve took us on a historical, culinary, and sensory experience from raw beans through processed chocolate. We were able to experience and sample throughout the presentation and it was honestly some of the best chocolate we’ve ever tried. It was delicious and really fun, and the park is gorgeous and teeming with wildlife.
After the chocolate tour we stopped for lunch in a location that had a ton of birds and other creatures to see (frogs, coati, etc)
I should perhaps mention that the chocolate sampled is on the pure/more bitter end of the chocolate spectrum. My kids (who are now college students) agreed they might not have appreciated the flavors when they were younger and prefered sweeter chocolate.
This tour in
Costa Rica
is organized by
Greenway Nature Day Tours
We always double-check the availability with our local partners for each booking. Even though this is usually a swift process, it can take up to 24 hours. Once this process is completed you will receive your voucher or ticket by email. If our local partner is not able to confirm your booking we will offer you the best possible alternative. If the new date and/or time doesn’t fit your itinerary, we will reimburse the full amount paid.
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