Chocolate and Farm Tour with local Tico family

Es war traumhaft! Familiar! Very much informations! Very friendly! I felt like being at Home! Close to nature! Martin and his fauchtet are absolutly fantastic

Fantastic tour. Best thing we did in Costa Rica. So informative and fun, a very personal experience. We learned so much - thanks!!! And the added waterfall swim was a great bonus

I'm leaving this review in multiple places because it was amazing and one of my favorite activities I did in CR to really slow down and enjoy the process. Truly a personal experience and doesn't feel like you are just cattle, being herded from one place to another. Our guide & host, Martin, explained the process from start to finish, showed us and we were involved in being able to taste the cacao fruit right after he machete chopped it up, tasted a roasted cacao bean by itself, but also tried fresh sugar cane juice. We were told that the Indigenous People of Costa Rica would drink hot water poured on crushed up roasted cacao beans. It wasn't sweet but it wasn't really that bitter and it was really cool to try it. There were only 3 of us so I feel like there was a lot of time to get to know Martin and his daughter Monica but also take part in other experiences such as having fresh pour over coffee from their own coffee beans. You have got to try this! I'm all for going "off the beaten path" for experiences so this really satisfied that curiosity and I just watched & listened with amazement. Don't just follow the google address, look on their website: (gotta google "family stories local experiences don jorge chocolate farm tour") for more detail about how to get to their entrance when you get close. I was just there Jan 10 and it looked like there used to be an entrance somewhere else, not sure but I followed the website and got there easily. I would love to come back to Costa Rica and have more time there but also come back and visit Martin, maybe try the Cooking Experience. But if I do, I'll bring Martin some smoked salmon (his request) because he loves it! I forget and there also could be communication mixups but I don't think he meant fresh salmon because that sounds almost impossible. So, smoked salmon must be it.