Don Juan Coffee & Chocolate tour

Don Juan Coffee & Chocolate tour, the two go hand in hand on this COSTA RICA FOR KIDS family taste bud tour!
Let the experts show you how it’s made on this hands-on tour your family will love! For the coffee and chocolate lover in us all! The tour begins with an educational insight into the wonderful world of coffee followed by the history of Costa Rican coffee and its importance in socio-economic development. Kids will be able to guess at trivia questions and learn about global coffee culture. Your expert guide will give your family an introduction to the life cycle of a coffee plant starting with the coffee seed itself and taking a look at its fascinating evolutionary cycle: Coffee Picking, de-pulping Machine, the drying patio, the warehouse, and the coffee roaster. Your family will have a hands-on experience while moving through the demonstration process. To wrap up the tour, your kids can ride in a typical oxcart, auditorium, or “La Casona” Restaurant. A perfect way to capture your family’s coffee tour!Up next, let’s get making chocolate!!! On this tour, your family will learn the history of chocolate–beginning with chocolate’s important role in indigenous populations, its arrival in Europe, and finally a flourishing global market for taste buds worldwide. Experience the transformation of the cacao plant from bean to bar. This hands-on tour will have your family searching cacao trees for ripe fruit which you’ll open and taste on the spot. Your kids will be amazed at the process of fermentation roasting to using raw sugar cane to enhance the savory-sweet flavor. You are actors in this demonstration of the chocolate-making process, you will get an opportunity to mix chocolate with different exotic ingredients such as Jamaica flower, natural cinnamon, nutmeg, and chili powder. With unlimited sampling fun, this is the best moment for the chocolate lover in your family!

What families love about this tour! Families love the interactive demonstrations of both the coffee and chocolate tours. Kids will get to participate in the process of making chocolate. They will be amazed at the action it takes to create chocolate from bean to bar!

Tour Duration: Approx. 2 hours