Description:

The community of Providencia de Dota is entered by kilometer 72 on the hill of death, entering the national park Los Quetzales 12 kilometers. Arrival in the community at 9 am, meeting with your local guide at the Flor de Loto Restaurant, who will welcome you and start your adventure arriving at the sugar cane mill Los Abuelos where you will enjoy a demonstration to learn about a tradition of our grandparents, here you will observe how the oxen extract the juice from the sugar cane, how the fire is lit, how the garbage is removed from the sugar cane juice in the stove and how the sweet tapa or the famous sobadores is made. As you have to let the juice cook, you will go to the Salitre waterfall, which will walk inside a secondary forest with many tributaries of pure water, waterfalls from 5 meters to 82 meters high; this waterfall is known for the concentration of salt found in its stone walls and the animals frequent to suck the mineral because these lands were created by subduction from the bottom of the sea and strategically located in the Savegre River basin. Then you will return to see the end of the work of the trapiche, eat a delicious typical lunch, and then you can choose between cooking classes to learn how to make jellies or pulp using local fruits such as blackberry, tomato, or tomatillo, naranjilla, and Huachuca, the Agüero Valverde family demonstrates the process of pulping the fruits and process them for marketing, Here you will learn how our grandparents used to make their coffee in the patio of their house and how they inherited it to their family. In addition to being excellent hosts, Ana and Enrique will make you spend the most pleasant moments between life stories and the cozy sound of their guitar while you taste one of the best coffees in the world.