3 tours · Local families
Culture & Food Tours in Costa Rica
A working farm, a hands-on cooking class, and a visit to the Boruca indigenous community.
Chocolate, Coffee & Spice is a working farm tour: guests roast their own coffee, turn raw cacao into chocolate bean-to-bar, and taste vanilla and spices growing in the ground. Local Flavor is a cooking class built around a trip to the Quepos market to pick ingredients, followed by cooking traditional Costa Rican dishes alongside a local family, not just watching a chef demonstrate.
The Boruca Indigenous Tribe experience is a different kind of day, a visit to one of Costa Rica's remaining indigenous communities to see traditional mask carving and weaving and hear the community's own history from the people who live it. All three tours run in small groups and are built around direct contact with the people doing the work, rather than a scripted stop on a bigger circuit.
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Frequently asked questions
Guests walk the farm, roast and grind coffee, process cacao into chocolate by hand, and sample spices and fruit growing on-site, finishing with a farm-to-table meal.
It is hands-on. Guests shop at the Quepos market, then cook the dishes themselves with a local family, rather than watching a chef cook for them.
It is a visit to a Boruca community to see traditional mask carving and natural-dye weaving in progress and to hear the community's history directly from Boruca artisans. It is a private, quote-based tour rather than a fixed-departure booking.
Let Tucanes know in advance. The cooking class and farm tour can generally accommodate vegetarian guests with notice.
