My YouTube Video - Driving Home from the Doka Estate Coffee Tour

After we completed the Doka Estate Coffee Tour, we made a dash cam video of our drive home. The coffee tour blog post can be read here.

This video might be of interest to those wondering what driving is like in parts of Costa Rica. Here is the map of our route, showing in blue (and alternate routes in grey):

And here is the video of our drive:

The date of the video is incorrect. It has to be fixed on our webcam. 

Doka Estate Costa Rica Coffee Tour and Plantation

The other day we decided to visit the Doka Estate Coffee Plantation on the slopes of Poás volcano. They offer five different tours and we chose the “coffee tour experience”.

Here’s is our driving route to Doka:

As you can see, it is not very far from where we live.

Entrance.

Different brewed coffees to sample while waiting for tour to begin.

Restaurant.

Mural

We had an excellent bilingual tour guide and our group was small. We started out at an area where coffee plants were growing and learned about seeds, coffee varieties, growing habits and coffee production. We then moved on to the processing plant.

Old wooden oxcart.

Beans drying in the sun.

Different types of processed beans.

We purchased coffee in the gift shop.

There’s a butterfly garden.

Excellent chocolate.

The Doka estate is a full production coffee plantation and has been in operation since 1940. As residents who are surrounded by coffee and sugar cane fields, we found this tour so informative and well done. The setting is beautiful.

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