deep1 Posted May 6, 2019 Report Posted May 6, 2019 Prior to heading to Cozumel, I saw a hot button for my GF that would make her day. A Chocolate tour? I decided to educate myself on chocolate and its relation to the Mayan culture. While searching around I stumbled on a tour up in town. I compared it to the one the cruise line offered and due to its hands on nature and very small class size the tour at Kao Kao won the coin toss. I can see a couple reasons it isn't sanctioned by the cruise lines. Small class size would be short on profit and its located pretty far into the residential part of town off the beaten path. We had time to shop in their little store before the class began. Not just candy. Soaps, hair conditioner, perfume, hair rinse , body wash. My GF aired my wallet pretty good on this stop. Class. Extremely informative. I will forever look at chocolate differently after it. It's history is interesting . More or less a symbol of wealth even used as a sort of currency. We learned that chocolates that we normally see in the stores are sorry knock offs of the real deal. We tasted 27 different kinds of real chocolate and each unique. From there we made our own coarse dark chocolate bars while our guide prepared a native chocolate drink with a chili added for a really fascinating kicker. I took the tour as my GF is a chocolate aficionado. Thought I would be bored but really enjoyed every second of it. Never too old to learn something! IRMO12HD, spiralqueen and KristiZ 3 Quote
GWENSEL Posted May 6, 2019 Report Posted May 6, 2019 Sounds yummy. How many hours was the tour experience. Did you have to take local transport to the place or did they do a pick up and drop. Could you share a link pls. deep1 1 Quote
deep1 Posted May 6, 2019 Author Report Posted May 6, 2019 The tour itself about two hours log. Very hands on and informative. We took taxi. Its off beaten path in a fairly rough looking neighborhood but well protected by heavy gates... Quote
Christie Posted May 6, 2019 Report Posted May 6, 2019 We take a cab over to that place every time we visit Cozumel and stock up on chocolate. JennyB and deep1 2 Quote
deep1 Posted May 6, 2019 Author Report Posted May 6, 2019 2 hours ago, Christie said: We take a cab over to that place every time we visit Cozumel and stock up on chocolate. I was floored at the number of items they carry beyond edibles... Quote
tiny blonde Posted May 9, 2019 Report Posted May 9, 2019 It sounds great! I'm printing out a map to the place and will ask our jeep tour guide to take us there! Quote
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