How to Visit La Fortuna Coffee Farms
Where the farms actually are, what a fare covers, whether you need a car, and the three things people get wrong before they book.
Short answers to the questions that come up once you have decided to give a morning to coffee and cacao: how to get there, what happens on the farm, and which of the two crops your morning should lead with.
Where the farms actually are, what a fare covers, whether you need a car, and the three things people get wrong before they book.
Nursery, picking rows, pulper, drying beds, fermentation boxes, roasting shed, tasting table — and what happens at each one.
The altitude that decides everything, a law that banned one bean for thirty years, and 1,600 cacao trees producing 150 pounds a week.
Which farms are built for children, which paths take a stroller, and the parts a four-year-old and a fourteen-year-old both get something out of.
Thirty dollars and ninety minutes of cacao, or sixty-one and two hours of both. The altitude settles this one more than the price does.
Every post below points at real departures. See them all on La Fortuna Coffee Tours.