This morning is the Spices Tour we signed up for last night. We were up and ready long before the minivan arrived at 8:50 to take us to the farm. I don't think I mentioned that we were a bit hesitant about taking this tour, due to the cost of $50 each, but it sounded very interesting, and Manoli wasn't all that excited about the other tours available, so we went for it. When they picked us up, there was already a young couple in the minivan, going on the tour with us. We traveled quite a ways out of town to their farm, Villa Vainilla. It is a well-known, recognized biodersity operation with a lot of write-ups expounding on it's virtues. They are a major producer of vanilla for the region, plus grow a good many other spices, coffee, and cocoa. First, we were given a very good explanation of vanilla and how it was grown and processed, explaining the reason why it is so expensive. Each flower has to be hand-pollinated in order to produce the bean pods.
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