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Valle Campanas is a small family
owned business a confortable warm place to stay
while visiting Monteverde Costa Rica. At the same
time we think it´s important for our guest
to live and feel as a part of the REAL Costa Rican
culture, we invite you to take a walk through our
nature trails, ride a horse and find out what a
trapiche is and even try some fresh sugar cane juice
all while enjoying the beauty and hospitality the
arguedas family loves to share.
We
are a Costarican family dedicated to the conservation
of our natural surroundings. These acres were once
part of the farm belonging to our father, Rafael
Arguedas, who was a pioneer of Monteverde. Back
in those days the major product of the farm was
sugar cane as well as cattle. The Arguedas brothers
worked together with their father, pressing cane
through a trapiche, and boiling it to obtain molasses
and brown sugar, products that were used at that
time instead of refined sugar.
We
still use the trapiche today, as a remembrance of
our father; we also have fun demonstrating to visitors
how well it still works. You will enjoy a glass
of delicious fresh cane juice as it pours out of
the trapiche. Grateful for our inheritance of this
beautiful place, we strive to preserve and protect
it, and continue our father's work of reforestation
in areas that were once pasture. We wish our beautiful
farm to endure forever.