Chocolate, Coffee and Sugar Cane Tour

Costa Rica's hills, warm climate, and rich soil grow three of the best things on earth: chocolate, coffee, and sugar cane. On this laid-back artisan tour you'll visit a small local plantation and a medicinal-plants garden and get the real story behind all three.

Start with cacao, the "drink of the gods." You'll hear where it comes from, here and around the world, and walk through the old ritual, collecting, fermenting, grinding, and finally making the chocolate itself. Then coffee, which basically built this country, from the crop right through to the cup in your hand.

To finish, you get hands-on with the "trapiche," the old mechanical mill that squeezes the juice out of sugar cane, and that juice becomes a local cocktail you get to drink. Short, sweet, and a little boozy at the end.