CRTSAGRT-329 Pinneaple Plantation and Packing Plant Tour $85.00
Agri Pineapple Tour
is a family owned
business with more than 1,500 hectares that offers our guests, local as
well as foreigners, a unique experience on the production process of the
pineapple. The family that owns the farm has more than 50 years of
experience on the crop, but it wasn't until 2003 which with great
success they incurred on the idea of sharing the adventure with visitors
and started the tourism department.
Our tour has a duration
of two hours and includes a trip through the Hacienda were one can
appreciate the great plantations of the fruit.
The tour is divided in 6
stages which are:
First Stage:
Tourists are welcome at
the Rancho “ Los Laureles”, which offers comfortable and spacious
restrooms. In this same stage there is the opportunity to view the
growing process of the fruit in all its stages in a specially design
demonstrational area. Also tourists can taste the exquisite sweet MD-2
(Del Monte's Golden Pineapple) which is a first grade, 100% export
quality fruit.
Second Stage:
The view spot “El Guacimo”,
is our second stage where one can learn about the history of the
pineapple while at the same time admire a beautiful humming bird garden
right next to the Cimarrones river.
Third Stage:
We enter the packing
plant, where the pineapple is received from the fields, prepared and
packed. The tourists can witness all the hard work involved in the
process by the packing plant workers; reception, selection, waxing,
crown fumigation, packing, palletizing, and freezing.
Fourth Stage:
The Hacienda, besides
producing fresh pineapples, also produces dried pineapple to export into
foreign markets. In this stage the visitors can learn about the process
of dehydration which the pineapple undergoes. The different steps are:
reception, then heart extraction, after this comes pealing and slicing,
then the distribution of the slices onto the carts, following comes the
carts into the ovens for drying and the last step is the packing.
Fifth Stage:
In this last stop our
visitors can enjoy our souvenir shop and buy all types of Costa Rican
souvenirs.
For further information about reservations contact us at:
Contact Us
1-800-745-3135 (USA and CANADA TOLL FREE)
Costa Rica Phone : (506) 290-2878
Costa Rica Fax: (506) 290-2853
P.O.Box : 387-1200 PAVAS, Costa Rica
