Day 6: Monteverde Sugar Cane, Coffee, and Chocolate Tour

Greetings friends and family. Today was mostly a travel day as we went from the town of La Fortuna to Monteverde. We traveled by boat across a river then took a bus ride to Monteverde. The scenery was beautiful, very mountainous with green hillside pastures and many horses and cows.  We all experienced a "Costa Rican massage" as we traveled along the bumpy mountain roads. Once in Monteverde we took a sugarcane, chocolate and coffee tour on a farm that has been around for many generations.  We learned how coffee is grown and harvested as well as tasted cacao in it's raw bean form. We saw sugar cane being processed on a water run "trapiche" (sugar mill) and made fudge from some of the sugarcane. We also had the opportunity to get some great views of a two toed sloth in the trees on the plantation.  After the tour we came back to our hotel and enjoyed a nice dinner and that was our day and we are looking forward to continuing to explore Monteverde tomorrow. 

- Gregory Lloyd