San Andreas Costa Rica

San Andreas Costa Rica

We travelled down to San Andreas Costa Rica to see a beautiful part of Costa Rica.  This is the area where some of the best coffee is grown in all of Costa Rica.

This photo is down at the river bottom surrounded by coffee plants in San Andreas Costa Rica.  So many beautiful red coffee beans just screaming to be picked.  Coffee production in the country relies on cheap, seasonal labor: Nicaraguan immigrants are often employed on these plantations. Coffee cultivators in the country are paid very little, often as little as US$1.5 per basket picked, but the wages are not less than in many other industries of the Costa Rican primary sectors.^[5] The berries are picked by the workers and are transported to processing plants to be washed and to remove the pulp around the beans. In Costa Rica the processing plants where this process is done are called beneficios but the effects of pulp removal may result in non-beneficial environmental effects (see below). The beans are then laid out to dry in the sun, then sorted according to size and shape. Although mechanical drying is gradually replacing manual labor in places, time consuming sun drying, and equipment are required to dry the wet seeds after pulping.^[6] Then they are then sealed with a slight touch of acidity typical of Costa Rican coffee.  This is my Land Cruiser that gets me to all kinds of crazy places.  This was most definitely a crazy place to drive down into.

Here is where we walked down through many coffee plants to find this hidden gem.  It is very beautiful.