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    Don Juan – Coffee & Chocolate Tour

    A fun, interactive experience learning about coffee, chocolate, and sugar cane production at the iconic Don Juan farm in La Fortuna.

    • ~2 hours
    • La Fortuna, Arenal
    • Private departure
    • From $100 · all fees included

    Partner-operated activity arranged by VIVO. No payment is taken now. We confirm availability with the operator and send you one payment link for everything.

    Duration
    ~2 hours
    Start time
    8:00am / 9:00am / 10:00am / 1:00pm / 2:00pm / 3:00pmSubject to availability
    Group style
    Private departure
    Pickup
    Pickup can be coordinated
    Languages
    EN / ES

    The experience

    Don Juan – Coffee & Chocolate Tour

    Don Juan is the original working finca of the Arenal region and one of the most beloved agricultural experiences near La Fortuna — a 2-hour tour that walks you through the full farming culture of rural Costa Rica in one place. Founded by Don Juan himself, the property still runs as a mixed traditional finca growing shade-grown arabica coffee, cacao, sugar cane, tropical fruit and staple root vegetables. Your bilingual guide leads you through the coffee plantation to explain varietal selection, altitude, shade management and hand-picking, and then to the on-site micro-mill where the beans are depulped, fermented, sun-dried on raised African beds and roasted in a wood-fired drum you can see and smell in real time. In the cacao section you follow the bean-to-bar process — fermentation, drying, roasting, cracking, winnowing, conching — and grind your own chocolate on a stone metate. The final stop is the ox-driven traditional trapiche where sugar cane is pressed for juice and boiled down into dulce blocks. The tour finishes with a full tasting flight: freshly roasted coffee, dark chocolate at multiple percentages, fresh cane juice with lime, and seasonal tropical fruit. Included: bilingual guide and all tastings. Transport is not included — we quote it separately by hotel and zone. Family-friendly, humor-heavy and rooted in real Costa Rican farming culture.

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    How you book this activity

    Partner-operated activity · arranged by VIVO

    This activity is run by a local operator we work with. You book it through us as a complement to your day: we confirm availability with the operator, coordinate transport from your hotel and send you one payment link for everything.

    Reference: from $100 USD — indicative per-person price. The final total is confirmed in your quote.

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    What travellers said about this experience

    5.0 · 3 verified reviews shownRead all verified reviews
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    Relax06993626429

    🌎 International · February 2026 · TripAdvisor

    Amazing experience from beginning to end. I contacted Elias before our first trip to Costa Rica to book nature tours for La Fortuna. He took our whole wish list — 2 night walks (Ecocentro Danaus and Papa's Place), canyoning, white water rafting with Arenal Rafting, sloth walk at Bogarin, chocolate and coffee tour at North Fields, zip lining at Sky Adventures and the 1968 trail to Arenal volcano. Luis was our nature guide (Gabriel for the sloth walk), both brilliant. Elias went over and above by messaging us each night with reminders and asking how our day had been. Would recommend wholeheartedly.

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    Julie Tearle

    February 2026 · Google

    We had such an amazing experience with Elias Nature Tours from beginning to end. Elias took our whole wish list and booked everything: 2 night walks (Ecocentro Danaus and Papa's place), canyoning, white water rafting with Arenal Rafting, a sloth walk at Bogarin, chocolate and coffee tour at North Fields, zip lining at Sky Adventures and the 1968 trail to Arenal Volcano. He sent a full itinerary with codes and details. We saw a sloth mum and baby come down to ground at Bogarin — awesome! Luis was our guide for all nature tours and Gabriel for the sloth walk. Both were brilliant and so knowledgeable. Elias went over and above, messaging each night with reminders. Would recommend wholeheartedly.

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    Jacob Sawyer

    November 2025 · Google

    Elias is the finest that Costa Rica has to offer! We started with a night tour at Danaus and loved it — he is so intelligent about Costa Rica's flora and fauna. We also booked a daytime sloth tour at the Bogarin trail. Raul was our guide and was great at spotting wildlife: 4 sloths, a toucan, 2 owls, a boa, and plenty more! He also helped plan our chocolate/coffee tour, a pineapple tour, a day at Baldi Hot Springs, and arranged Manuel Antonio tickets and a guide for us. Can't say enough good things — highly recommend booking your tours through him.

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