La Plantation Hotel

... On the way to the volcano we will visit Doka Coffee Estate for a delicious breakfast and a coffee tour, in an actual coffee plantation where we will learn about the ancient techniques used by the experts to produce one of the best coffees in Costa Rica. ...

... 10, the only one with a still functioning air conditioner. It was a question of maintenance problems again. When the plantation was built and organized by French expats, things were organized and maintained. When colonization ended, maintenance didn't ...

... was quite skilled at lifting the outboard motor from the water whenever there was too much debris. The boat arrived at a banana plantation in the middle of nowhere where we took a bus along gravel roads to the nearest town, called Cariari. We swapped ...

... English period and the Sugar Cane Co. that it is the primary source of income (most people work there), the sugar cane plantation, the wild mountains mostly unexplored where you will have to venture on your own, the river for fishing and also kayaking if ...

... caoutchouc, une plantation a ete l'arret suivant. Contrairement au cafe, qui appartient a des interets prives, le caoutchouc lui appartient a l'etat. La plantation ou on a arrete est en fait une foret de 3km par 1km. Le caoutchouc, on ne le savait pas, ...

... ; On the way to a pineapple plantation, we saw fields as vast as corn fields at home.  When we arrived at the plantation, we were seated in a rotunda for the skinny on how to pick the perfect pineapple at the grocery store.  After many people's ...

... Anyway, we caught the bus from San Jose - quite a comfortable bus for 4.5 hours through some gorgeous mountainous plantation country. Into La Fortuna which is a tiny little tourist mecca...every corner covered with souvenir shops and cafes, pizza places ...

... a French girl. It was cloudy and cool in La Serena.  That sea mist again!  The first stop was at a papaya plantation where we learnt about the male fruit, the female fruit and the hermaphrodite fruit.  The valley was heavily cultivated with ...

... where.  He won numerous battles but I finally won the war. I took a trip to Guatemala City and Antigua where I toured a coffee plantation. The coffee tour was fantastic as it was a local co-op that help get Guatemalan farmers set up. So it was a ...

... if you deciding to come here then you don't need to know the name of the valleys! Our first stop was at a Papaya's plantation, where we stopped for a little tour around the fields and the crops where they also grow custard apples and mango's. A little ...

This morning we took tuk-tuks up to the National Reserve which is on a coffee plantation. We got suited up to use the zip lines through the jungle. It was a fairly long, arduous hike up the mountain to the start of the 8 zip lines. We saw monkeys and ...

... yesterday (Thursday 17 Jan) and drove to the far side of Monteverde to take a coffee tour at the Don Juan Coffee Plantation.  It was a fantastic, informative, fun tour of a real working coffee plantation.  Once again, our guide seemed to really ...

... are best pronounced as if speaking the ´´Red Dwarf´ GELF language.Even walking through Playa Santiago takes you through a banana plantation where the ´weeds´ are colossal poinsettias. We are resisting scrumping the bananas. Today was an easy trip to ...

There were three things I wanted to do while in Louisiana last time - go to the French Quarter, see a plantation home and go on a boat in the swamp.  We accomplished 2 of the 3.  So we had one thing left to do when we returned. On ...

... borough called La Paz, population 5,000.   Nanci, you'd be surprised - it looks a lot like San Sebastian, the coffee plantation where we took that airplane ride from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico a couple of months ago.   As with SS, there ...

... landed! We managed to grab a quick bite to eat and around 3pm we went on our next tour of the coffee and sugar cane plantation at El something. It was one of the most informative tours we ever took. We learned all about the different grades of coffee, ...

...  Continuing on, we find monkey island, everyone's favorite!   The next day, we visit Volcan Mombacho, a working coffee plantation and beautiful national park.  The road up to the coffee plantation is incredibly steep, and 4-wheel drive is ...

... we were glad we didn’t as it was really interesting.  A short walk led us through to the small cocoa plantation and an outbuilding with seating. We watched as the guide talked us through the various aspects of chocolate making and the history ...

... for us to continue on our journey. I wanted to be in Solento tonight which was another 6 hours away. We had a reservation at the Plantation house hostel there. But first we had to pick up our two bags we had left at the Platypus Hostel in Bogota two weeks ...

... arrived. My previous experience with coffee tours was on the island of Kauai in Hawaii (see link at the end of blog). That coffee plantation – the Kauai Coffee Company -was laid out with the help of a GPS device as the coffee trees were lined up in ...

... jai jamais pense change dhotel. Dhabitude je maccomode de peu. Cest juste que jai limpression quil y a dautres hotel aussi confortable et aussi bien situe que la plantation de cafe de Manizales. Un coyote mavait acueillit au parc et mavait parle dune ...