Tree Chocolate Tour

Only 20 minutes from the center of Bijagua, there is a tourist attraction worth visiting, it is Tree Chocolate, a place where you can enjoy a wide variety of experiences, from knowing the cocoa plantations, their industrialization process, to seeing how this becomes a delicious handmade chocolate, one of the best in the country.

Located on the slopes of the Tenorio Volcano, Tree Chocolate is an excellent tourist option for lovers of cocoa (chocolate) and other attractions that this place offers its visitors. This rural tourism project started 7 years ago, offers group or exclusive tours through cocoa plantations, where you can observe and taste cocoa fruit seeds, pipe water, cane juice, among other medicinal plants throughout the year's route. At the end of the journey, you will have the opportunity to visit the chocolate factory, where you will be able to learn about the chocolate manufacturing process and taste this product in the form of bars and even taste delicious milk chocolate.

About the tour. The tour begins in a small cocoa factory where a guide will explain everything about cocoa, from its planting, injection and development process, to its harvest. Throughout the tour, you will observe the cocoa plantations with their fruits in all stages of development; An explanation of the cocoa varieties that the property possesses will also be given. During the tour you will have the opportunity to see coconut trees, medicinal and ornamental plants that will arouse your curiosity, due to the great variety that exist and their healing properties. In addition, you will be able to taste the sweet taste of coconut water and of course the seeds of the cocoa fruit. Also, witness the variety of animals: sloths, monkeys, frogs, toucans and other types of birds.

In a section of the trail, find the Chimuría River and the Santo Domingo River and enjoy beautiful views of the rivers and endemic trees of the area, with quite particular and attractive shapes to the visitor. The tour also includes a demonstration of other attractions of the farm, such as an artisan trapiche that extracts natural cane juice, where you can taste it.

Almost at the end of the tour, you will observe the Australian lobster piles, where you will learn everything about their habitat, growth process, from their beginnings to adulthood.

At the end of the tour, outside the cocoa plantations, you will have the opportunity to watch an explanatory video that shows through images the entire production process of artisanal chocolate, while this happens, you will receive a tasting of a delicious jar of hot or cold chocolate in water or milk.

Right after the video and the tasting, you will visit the cocoa fermentation, drying and roasting area, where you will be able to observe the artisan machines with which the cocoa production process is carried out to reach its final product, already to be sold in its different presentations such as chocolate bars, cocoa butter and powdered chocolate.