Hacienda Cacao y Mango Chocolate Tour

Learn all about how one of Ecuador's top products is made on our Hacienda Cacao y Mango Chocolate Tour from Guayaquil. If you've got a sweet tooth, this is the activity for you!

Hacienda Cacao y Mango Chocolate Tour

At the indicated time, we'll pick you up from your hotel and travel to the Hacienda Cacao y Mango for a chocolate tour.

Upon arrival, you'll be greeted with a welcome cocktail. The tour starts with visits to cocoa, rice, tropical fruit, vanilla, banana, and coffee plantations, among other varieties of edible and timber plants on the estate. You'll learn about the local soil's richness.

After familiarizing yourself with the plantations, you'll participate in chocolate making, taste cocoa juice, and different derivatives of fresh cocoa. A visit to the conching and tempering workshop will include a tasting of chocolates of different percentages. During the workshop, you'll learn to make chocolate bars with dehydrated fruits of 50 grams.

There will be an opportunity to visit the shop, where various products, such as chocolate soaps, cocoa masks, hats, ground coffee, coffee jams, and leather handicrafts, will be available for purchase. We will enjoy a 3-course lunch with local organic ingredients and desserts featuring seasonal fruits and chocolate.

After lunch, you'll return to your hotel, with arrival scheduled 6 hours after pickup.

Pickup, schedule, and meeting points

When you make your reservation, you can choose between different options:

Tour with pickup in Guayaquil: At 10 am, we'll pick you up at your hotel in Guayaquil.

Tour from Naranjal: If you choose this, you'll need to arrive at the Hacienda Cacao y Mango by 10 or 11 am.

Add a visit to a vanilla greenhouse

If you choose this option, we'll go to Cerro Chico Pereque to visit one of the largest vanilla plantations in the region and learn about the cultivation, harvesting, fermentation, and drying processes in a vanilla greenhouse.