Starbucks Coffee Farm & Chocolate Tour from San Jose

Itinerary
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Pass By: Hacienda Alsacia Starbucks Coffee Farm, Waze Address: Visitors Center - Starbucks On route 712 on the way to the Poas volcano, Alajuela 20101 Costa Rica

The tour starts in the morning with pickups from the San Jose Greater area hotels in an air conditioned vehicle. Travel to the foothills of Poas Volcano, one of the best regions for the cultivation of coffee in Costa Rica. Learn about the whole process of coffee at Hacienda Alsacia, Starbucks’ first owned coffee farm in the world, where your expert guide will explain how the coffee plants are cultivated in Costa Rica.

Walk around the coffee plantation, learn how the ripe coffee cherries are picked and how they are handled at the processing plant. Your guide will also provide further details about the production of coffee and will share information about the advanced research center that Starbucks has at this plantation, where scientists work constantly to improve and have better varieties of coffee plants. Savor a delicious freshly brewed cup of Costa Rican Coffee at the end of this tour.

Afterwards, participate of a very interesting and informative cholate tour. Explore the whole history of cocoa in the Americas with your expert guide, where you will learn all the details about this product from thousands of years ago until today. Learn how to process cocoa in a traditional way, here you will observe how to transform the cocoa fruit and the cocoa nibs into delicious chocolate. Savor the delicious Costa Rican cocoa and chocolate products in different ways, from the uses our ancestors gave to it thousands of years ago, to the delicious chocolate we are able to eat nowadays. At the end of this chocolate tour, you will be taken back to your hotel in the San Jose area.