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5050pick: Entrance to Best Chocolate Sarapiqui Tour right on Rt 4, about 1 Km east of La Selva Verde
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5050pick: Heading into the Best Chocolate - Sarapiqui Plantation
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5050pick: Our Guide, Geiner Huertas Reyes and tour group...
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5050pick: Don't leave the trail!
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5050pick: Geiner next to a Cocoa tree with a Cocoa Pod
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5050pick: Cocoa Pods in the Cocoa tree
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5050pick: Cocoa flowers growing on the trunk of the tree
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5050pick: Geiner holding a Cocoa flower
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5050pick: One of the non-Cocoa trees on the plantation with "Buttress" roots
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5050pick: Geiner & group at the processing (& tasting!) area
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5050pick: One of the group holding a cocoa pod...
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5050pick: Smashing the cocoa pod to get the seeds out...
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5050pick: Cocoa seeds still in the pod..
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5050pick: Cocoa seeds on the drying table.
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5050pick: Grinding the dried seeds the original way, with a rock in a lava bowl
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5050pick: Grinding the seeds in a more modern way.
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5050pick: Geiner's brother, a chocolate master, mixing the paste into "Hot Chocolate"
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5050pick: Best Chocolate - Sarapiqui for Sale!