Photo Gallery Days 7 & 8


Los Tigres Nobles' presentation


Mac and Lauren explaining what happened to the Gmelina leave.


K-JAB's presentation


Karina, Alexander, and Brendan sharing their statistical analysis.


Team Indeciso's presentation


Audrey and John explaining their experiment.


A small waterfall in Sensoria


Look at that blue water in Sensoria!


Having some fun swimming in some cold water.


Some pics of relaxing in the hot pools from the geothermal activity of the volcanoes around Sensoria.


A cacao plant with a fruit


The dry roaster for the cacao 


The fermentation and drying of the cacao occurs here.


Pablo making us some delicious hot chocolate from the cacao on the farm. It is a single origin chocolate because the entire process occurs at Finca La Anita as seen in the above pictures.

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