{"id":9039,"date":"2022-04-01T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=9039"},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:22:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T22:22:56","slug":"la-fortuna-aranel-costa-rica-cloud-forests-sloths-coffee-chocolate-and-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/la-fortuna-aranel-costa-rica-cloud-forests-sloths-coffee-chocolate-and-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"La Fortuna, Aranel, Costa Rica – Cloud Forests, Sloths, Coffee, Chocolate and Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We stayed in the Arenal area for 5 days, during this time we went on walks in the cloud forest of Arenal, saw wildlife, had a coffee and chocolate tour, went on a hike along the Arenal volcano’s 1968 lava trail and relaxed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below are images over that time period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We also visited a family run coffee and chocolate plantation where the entire growth to production process was explained to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We started with the chocolate tour and the Cocoa bean. The cocoa pod contained the cocoa beans wrapped in a lychee like flesh. This was allowed to ferment in a jar for a period of a couple of weeks before the cocoa beans were extracted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then they were dried out and then ground into cocoa powder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The art of chocolate is what you mix the cocoa beans with and we were given a chocolate making lesson. It tasted bitter and horrible, but then we are not chocolatiers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then we were able to see the coffee plants and the process involved drying out the beans and then roasting them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All in all we found the Arenal area to be interesting, full of diversity, wildlife, a volcano, spas, walks and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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