Description:

At kilometer 72 on the Cerro de la Muerte (Hill of Death), the community of Providencia de Dota is located in the National Park for 12 kilometers through Los Quetzales.
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 this 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 rubbish is removed from the sugar cane juice in the fire and how the sweet tapa or the famous sobado is made.

As the juice has to be left to cook, you will go to the Salitre waterfall, where you will walk through 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 that is 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 to take a cooking class to learn how to make jellies or pulp using local fruits such as blackberry, tomato, naranjilla and uchuva, the Agüero Valverde family demonstrates the process of pulping the fruits and processing them for commercialization, The Calderón Agüero family has a great knowledge in the artisan coffee process, here you will learn how our grandparents made their coffee in the patio of their house and how they inherited it to their family, besides being excellent hosts, Ana and Enrique, will make you spend the most pleasant moments between stories of life and the cozy sound of their guitar while you taste one of the best coffees in the world.