Sugar Mill tour
El Trapiche, a local family run and typical Costa Rica country farm which is run by a local family is the perfect place to experience the cozy and easy going lifestyle of the Tico campesinos. Trapiche, which translated means Sugar Cane Mill, is a super fun cultural half day trip that will take you to a still active sugar mill farm. Learn about the process of making sugar step by step, from the raw sugar cane freshly cut until the stage. The farm also has banana, coffee and other crops that include the typical products that the local farmers had been producing for over 60 years. Sugar and Coffee are very representative produce typical of not only Monteverde but of all the Costa Rican highlands. Transportation is included from the hotel and also back.