Round trip transportation from your Puerto Limon cruise ship terminal! English and Spanish speaking, certified local guide! Guided coffee plantation visit with tastings! All entrance fees! If you love coffee then come with us and learn all about it on this unique excursion. You'll have the opportunity to see the development of coffee from seed to served and take in the aromas along the way. Visit
an actual coffee plantation, see how beans are selected, roasted, and processed. See what the experts use to brew and you'll even be given a chance to see how their ancestors once lived. Then, once you think this great excursion has come to an end, you'll have the opportunity to drink the freshest coffee you will have ever tasted. This coffee adventure begins when you meet with the guide close to your Puerto Limon cruise ship pier. You'll be shown to an air conditioned motor coach for a comfortable, and scenic, 90 minute ride to Turrialba Town. That's when you'll find yourself in the midst of true coffee country with rolling hills, mountainous regions and tropical splendor. You'll have arrived at the farm in the West Valley that is surrounded by 800 acres of a prime coffee plantation. Then you'll start your adventure by going to the nursery where you'll be shown the different stages of the first year of the coffee plant. Next you'll learn why the oxcart is such an important icon in coffee history. Be entertained by the story of Costa Rica's national saying, Get on the Wagon. After that fun narrative you'll stop at the Coffee Wet Mill where you'll see and learn how beans are processed. See what criteria is used for selection and then take in the aroma of the patios where the coffee is dried. You'll head on to the Roasting Room next and this is where the aroma will surround you as the coffee flavors are fibe tuned. Check out the large machinery used for roasting. After this you'll be taken to La Casita de Juancho, an old house that was built so you can see how their ancestors used to live. At this point your host will explain how to brew coffee and why they still use a chorreador, and not a coffee maker. Then a stop at the souvenir store as an end to a fun-filled day. You can also have all the coffee you'd like and even taste the different blends made at this plantation. When your time is through you will hop onboard the comfortable bus for the ride back to your Puerto Limon cruise ship pier.
