Costa Rica Trip
Day #4 - Sunday, January 11th
This morning we headed out from the Radisson Hotel in San Jose, Costa Rica at 8am - after a great breakfast at the hotel (fresh omelettes). The drive to Monteverde took about 3-1/2 hours - which included a 15-minute pit stop mid-way through the journey. We arrived into Monteverde and had lunch in the central town square. Really small place - with tons of character and tropical charm.
After lunch we walked around town for another hour and then took a leisurely stroll back to the hotel. We got picked up at 2:30pm to visit a coffee plantation. What a really cool tour! We visited Costa Rican Coffee - and had a 2-hr tour which showed us the entire coffe-producing process - from growing the coffee beans, to picking the beans, to the drying process, and the roasting process. Some interesting points from the coffee tour: coffee beans are only picked by hand in Costa Rica, the beans are ripe when they are red, each plant can produce beans for 25/30 years, it takes 3-years before a plant produces beans, dark roast has less caffeine than light roast.
After the coffee tour, we went to a restaurant that had an amazing lookout at the Pacific Ocean. We had a great dinner and watched one of the best sunsets I’ve ever seen. Just about perfect!
Back to the hotel - just in time to catch the last 5 minutes of the 49ers/Eagles playoff football game - pumped for the 49ers win.
To end a great day, we went on a 2-hr night hike with a guide to view different animals in the region. What an outstanding finish to the day! We saw kinkajous, sloths, tarantulas, frogs, birds, scorpios, toucans, beatles, leaf insects, etc.
Truly an amazing day in Costa Rica!
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