Copán Coffee Tour
HALF DAY TOUR
From Copán Ruinas
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The aroma of roasting coffee will dazzle your senses. It is here the magic takes place. Finca Santa Isabel uses time honored roasting techniques specific to each coffee blend, which combine temperature and time. This process produces the “medium-dark“ grade that is best suited to Honduran highlands coffee.
Your tour begins high in the mountains, at the plant nursery where young plants are nurtured until they are ready to become a part of the Finca. Conventional, “modern” coffee plantations are encroaching on wildlife habitats all across the Americas, significantly reducing songbird populations. Using the traditional shade grown coffee methods offers a promising alternative, that benefits the environment as well as producing a better tasting coffee due to the natural sugar content of the soils.
Shade grown coffee yields a healthier bean, because chemical fertilizers are rarely used or needed. This non use of chemicals also provides a flourishing bird habitat and greater biodiversity, which sustains the rainforests.
Shade grown coffee farm support over 150 species of birds, so don’t forget your camera. You will have ample opportunity to observe birds, butterflies, plants, trees, medicinal herbs used by the locals, and maybe even some of the furry wildlife that thrive in this amazing tropical jungle.
INCLUDED SERVICES
Round trip land transportation from your Hotel or the city to Finca Santa Isabel, guided tour to the coffee plantation and production plant. Local food lunch by the rainforest.