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One day tours in Atenas

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Customized Mountain bike experience, Lunch, Coffee Tour, Hiking, views to the pacific and to the central valley, pre-colombin places are the combinations that we do on our one day Tours! We provide the bikes in all the rides! Atenas Hiking, Mountain biking, lunch and coffee tour: $75 per person (description coming soon!) Mountain Bike, Lunch, Coffee tour and Hike: $75 5 Hours Hike, Lunch, Coffee Tour: $40 Mountain Bike, Lunch, Coffee Tour: $70 More options coming soon! the #1, #2, #4 options include: Bikes with safety equipment, T-shirts, Hydrants, lunch, Pick up and drop off in Atenas or Grecia Area, Snacks! All the prices are per person!

A short Video of publicity in a local TV chanel

Campaña "Vamos a turistear" le trae opciones para ir de paseo cerca de San José This is the link to the page of the local TV channel that showed local options to travel around San Jose! The short is called Vamos a Turistear, that means let´s tour our country! http://www.teletica.com/Noticias/8937-Campana-Vamos-a-turistear-le-trae-opciones-para-ir-de-paseo-cerca-de-San-Jose.note.aspx

Toledo Coffee prices!

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Here there is the list of products we have! Note: prices do not include shipping cost! Organic Certified El Toledo This is our premium beans organic The bag comes with 500 grams Price is: $10.60 We also proccess some beans from our neighbors. this is something that is helping us to contribute to the comunity, we pay them better while offering a better product to a better price to them, too. Either kind of coffee you buy from us is helping us to keep the same ideology and trying to get our neighbors into it as well! Non organic El Toledo These are the premium beans from our neighbors! There are bags of 250 and 340 grams Price are: 250 grams $4.70, 340 grams $5.65 Non Organic Campesino These are not our premium beans but is rated very good for most of the regular papulation! Bags of 250 or 500 grams Price: 250 grams $2.35 Note: this are the bags we handle, if you want an expesifique size ask for it! We'll custumize it to you! Are you a restauran

Pictures from visitors!

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This photo of El Toledo Coffee Tour is courtesy of TripAdvisor This photo of El Toledo Coffee Tour is courtesy of TripAdvisor

4 Pictures of the Day

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Mariñon. The fruit above the cashew on a cashew tree. "Cashews are high in calories. 100 g of nuts provide 553 calories. They are packed with soluble dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals and numerous health-promoting phyto-chemicals that help protect from diseases and cancers." "The cashew tree is native to Brazil’s Amazon rain forest, which spread all over the world by Portuguese explorers. Today, it is grown commercially in Brazil, Vietnam, and India and in many African countries." Read more... A flower in bloom off to the side. "The tropical zones of the American continent (Neotropics), where Costa Rica is located, contain a greater diversity of species and ecosystems, as well as a broader range of interactions, compared with other tropical regions of the world." Read more... A cotton boll How jeans are made and more... "Cottonseed is planted from early February to mid-May and the matured fluffy, white bolls are h

Flowers

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A coffee plant's flowers in bloom A section of a leaf, covered in butterfly eggs. A red and white version of a flower from a previous post. A hibiscus flower found outside the house. A bowl of cashews and cashew fruit (marañon). Photos by: Willina Cain All Rights Reserved

Volunteer program

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Be part of our volunteer program and get inmerse in coffee proccesing, organic farming, spanish language, and learn from who have learn from the farm! Through the days we have pleanty of different activities to do! so it's not only working on the coffee! you can learn how to start using your mind and hands together working with wood! doing what ever comes in your mind! you can Go painting any of the proyects we have! the school next door needs to be painted! the front wall looks enything else but the front of a school! in this case we already have the paint, need hands! you can start new proyects, like dehydration solar equipment to dehydrate fruits! build a ranch for tools at the farm! and there are more proyects in working the land! on fridays you can be part of the sales stuff! (this was one very rainy day by the way) we have one apartment in the farm, with everything you need! You'll stay in the farm the time you want! If available! w

One day tours in Grecia

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Customized Mountain bike experience can be arrange for all day long! The setup for one day tours we have are:  Things to do in Grecia! Grecia: For all the info go to: www.puravidamtb.com Our day starts early visiting the majestic Poas Volcano, Bike back down to Grecia through only off-road trails on the natural reserve of the poas Volcano, have lunch with our Family, after Lunch we will take you to see waterfalls and springs where the community's potable water is captured, you choose if you want to bike or hike there: price: $120 per person, with a minimum of 2 people! Includes: bike with safety equipment, Hydratants, T-shirt, Ride on car to the top of the Volcano and Two Guides and the entrance to the Volcano, and also pick up in Grecia and Atenas Area! Note: this is for advance levels of down hill (not crazy, just good at off-road with rocks and slippery hills! Biking up hill to Poas Volcano From San Pedro of Poas on the road, get in the park, look at the crater, Have

Looking for a Hotel room, or agency that offer our tours?

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This is the way our friends describe our operation: Note: Each of this tours are operated by the Hotel or travel agency administration, they send you here but they also use different services, So The estimation price is counting even more services than just our coffee tours! That's according to their locations, expectatives, Guides, Restaurants, Etc! Hotel location: Atenas Organic Coffee Expedition In times where the world is changing fast and we have all been told that we need to start making things different, here in Atenas we invite you to be both the witness and the performer of the action. In partnership with Café Toledo we offer you the possibility to experience in detail the behind-the-scenes of an organic coffee plantation in the heights of San Isidro de Atenas. Hotel location: Alajuela My Village Tour A DAY IN THE LIFE OF RURAL COSTA RICA A day tour around the Atenas hills . . . with your guide and his family and friends.  You will need decen

Toledo Schedule!

Our schedule depends on our seasons!! We are open every day with reservation with 3 days ahead of time!! Or from Sundays to Thrusdays acording to our disponibility! Check out the Tours disponibility in our schedule! 1- if there isn't any activity the day you want to come it's available 2- if there is an activity check out the time it is, and if it is open to the public. If you have check that the date you want to come it's possible for us to share our tour with you you can now just send us an e-mail with your name, number of people that are coming, and the time you want it! e-mail: cafeeltoledo@gmail.com or call: (506) 8711-1221

What to do in Atenas!

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What to do in Atenas?  In this page you will find things to do in Atenas from my experience. Welcome to Atenas, my name is Gabriel Calderon V. I live in Atenas since I was born Let me tell you what you can find in Atenas, my native town! Let's start with acomodations! Infrastructure in atenas is good, we have plenty of Restaurants; we can spend one week eating in different places and we will never be tired of having the same! Hotels; we have many places to stay, not very big hotels (who want to be in a big hotel anyway, you can not find the real costa rica there) but very nice places where you can enjoy spending a night or weeks! sports centers, are you good at working out? there are gyms, soccer fields, swiming pools etc. There is going to be a Post for each category! CATUCA is our local turist and comerce center! they help a lot the town to go forward, helping with ferias, festivals, organicing the people in such a wonderful way to keep ever

From A Friend's Perspective

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watch the video on youtube This is a video summary of the farm made by a friend. A Blod discription of our operation by a friend: http://goinglikesixty.com/2012/01/best-coffee-tour-in-costa-rica-is-in-atenas-at-toledo-organic-coffee-finca/ A Blog wrote by a friend:  http://www.mommybluebird.com/a-great-day-at-el-toledo-an-organic-coffee-tour/#.UREu3qUTu3U an Article written by a friend: A blog writen by a friend who is sharing his Costa Rica living experience! http://unpackingcostarica.blogspot.com/2013/04/visited-el-toledo-coffee-farm.html

An Article Written By A Friend

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A friend of ours wrote an article fairly recently about the farm.  Check it out  here . sharing their costa rica experience http://unpackingcostarica.blogspot.com

Toledo Coffee Farm Photos

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Coffee Farm pictures  lot of pictures I'll be uploading here! This photo of El Toledo Coffee Tour is courtesy of TripAdvisor