Special Attractions

Visit to a local school

This is an activity within our program for social projection.  The children of this school make a brief presentation for the group and then a quick interaction period to take pictures, to singing or playing.

Cooking workshop

This activity consists of a guided walk through the trail to end it up at the vegetable garden where people can harvest some of what we have and then we do a cooking workshop where we all learn about the properties of each one of the vegetables and we (staff and guests) all participate cutting, boiling, frying, or whatever is needed to prepare a dish for dinner.  In the meantime, we try some other things that we cook while there.

The area for cooking is a beautiful big thatched roof building next to a pond in the trail. 
The main dish we usually prepare is a heart of palm dice or a green papaya dice and the snacks we try while cooking are tortillas, fried yuca, fried bread fruit and pineapple.

Walking and planting of a native tree

We have assigned an area of La Quinta for reforestation.  Since the begining we have been inviting our guests to plant a native tree in order to cooperate with the restoration process of the native flora.  We specially plant Almendro de Montaña, to improve the habitat for the Green Macaw.This activity takes place within the property and is reserved only for guest with no cost at all.

The Original Pineapple Tour

The tour consists of a trip through an active operating pineapple farm.  The informed guide gives an interesting talk about the history, cultivation of pineapple and shows all the phases of pineapple growth from sowing to harvest.  There is a visit to a packing plant, an ornamental pineapple project and an organic pineapple review.  All are invited to enjoy a generous snack of piña colada in fresh fruit, fresh pineapple and freshly made pineapple juice.

ChocolateTour
Tirimbina Rainforest center

"An adventure and learning destination"
Discover the secrets and marvels of one of the favorite foods of human kind.

The Chocolate

Cacao:  With its origins in Mesoamerica, with a rich and extraordinary history.  The discovery of America took it to Europe, transforming into the product we know today.

The Tour, with duration of three hours includes:

• Guided walk through Tirimbina suspension bridge.
• Cacao plantation.
• Forest and wild species of cacao.
• Natural and cultural history of the cacao.
• Process:  From cacao to chocolate (Harvesting, fermentation and dying).
• Chocolate tasting, cacao and organic chocolate productions, produced by Asociación de Mujeres Amazilia del Caribe.

This tour rescues one of our native plants and one of the friendliest crops with the environment.