welcome to Costa Rica we're heading to the central highlands of Costa Rica to
check out one of the country's finest exports coffee
otherwise known as cafecito. From the Juan santamaría International
Airport we travel about 4,000 feet up into the headlands to check out one of
the most renowned coffee plantations known as the dhoka estate this
family-owned business represents the agricultural heritage and country's
history and here we'll find the oldest web mill in the country according to
UNESCO this is the Doka State we're gonna go taste coffee upon
entering the state we check out the Mariposa garden where you can view some
of Costa Rica's 1251 species of butterflies
we are in the Mariposa garden and this is that the estate
if you look these butterflies as much as we do hit the thumbs up button down
below
don't read a word like wow now we head out into the plantation to see how the
famous morning cup of coffee is made
the coffee cherries are red when ripe and are harvested in the labor intensive
hand-picked process the different altitudes produce different flavors and
once the berries are dried in the sun it's time to roast them the coffee you
get in the store looks much different than the coffee you see on the plant so
how did coffee originate the first coffee Arabica crops were brought to
this beautiful country in 1779 by way of Ethiopia legend has it a few thousand
years ago in Ethiopian goatherd name Kaldi observed his goats were more energetic
than usual turns out the goats were eating the red berries from an
unfamiliar tree when he tried the berries himself he felt happy he went
and told the monastery about the effects the monk condemned him and the berries
as devil's work and threw them in the fire
soon after the smell of roasted coffee filled the monastery enticing the monks
and that's how the idea of the beverage was born we're at the yokai State in
Costa Rica and we're checking out how coffee is made
we have an adventure park and a climbing wall here and we're walking through the
plantation this is about 2,000 meters above sea level Costa Rica is the
world's 13th largest producer of coffee and on that note it's time to go inside
and try it they paint and transport the coffee trying some of the different
types of coffee in here Mike which one are you trying this is the doko steep we
got here early in the morning so there's hardly anyone here and trying some
samples of the coffee this is the pea berry it's very pure and we're about
2,000 meters above sea level this is where the coffee grows can hear all the
calls of the birds
now it's time to head down the mountain on the way down we check out the
panoramic views of San Jose and alajuela
we drive thru Costa Rica second largest city alajuela which lies 20 kilometres
northwest of the capital city
we drove past catedral de nuestra senora de piel are built in the 18th century as
well as the country's second cathedral cathedral de futbol
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