Well, a friend(Sue) and I visited Monteverde this last weekend. We left Saturday morning and went by bus for about 3 1/2 hours. The last 45 minutes or so is over a VERY bumpy road - we were glad to arrive!
We had a little under 2 hours to kill before our tour, so we walked down to a very pretty restaurant named Flor de Vida (Flower of Life). I was pretty excited because the waitress pointed out a beautiful bird that was right outside in the garden. It was a blue-crowned Mot-Mot. What a beautiful bird!!
Then we went on a tour of a sugar-cane plantation. It was very interesting! I started out by taking the tour in Spanish, and really understood the vast majority, however, there were some new words, so I decided to change to the English group so I could really understand the process and everything. They also had coffee plants, bananas, and pineapple on the plantation. They showed the system for processing coffee and then for the sugar. We ate pieces of sugar cane (well, not really ATE - more like sucked on...), rode in an oxcart, and made a candy from the cooked sugar cane juice. We also had a snack including juice from a fruit grown on the plantation, coffee, and a picadillo (a little like a stew) from another plant. A very good tour!!
More to follow!
Riding on a traditional oxcart
1 comment:
Yeah, Monte Verde is really nice! Glad you made it to the Trapiche (sp?) tour! That was one of the best tours I took. Lots of exposure to a lot of traditional agriculture plus all the nice snacks to enjoy!
Hope you have a good time with dad!
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