From Chocolate to conservation: updates from from Macaw Lodge’s Global Social Impact House Visit, New Chocolate Bars, and advances of the Pathway Proposal.

From February 8 – 11, Macaw Kakau hosted its first ever craft chocolate workshop. Our instructor, Obie Pressman, of Seattle, WA, led participants from the United States, Brazil Belgium and Canada through every step of the chocolate making process: from cultivation to finished bar.

What’s the hardest part about the road? Driving to Macaw Lodge, the nearby towns of Bijagual and El Sur, and the areas in between is now easier. It’s more accesible and you don’t have to worry about your car…

Macaw Lodge will like to thank the 12 volunteers that we received during April thru September 2017, each one of you contributed to the growth of our ECO LODGE.

Last couple of months has been amazing at Macaw Lodge; we were able to plant 5,000 mountain almond trees. The mountain almond tree is an endanger species in Costa Rica; it is forbidden to cut and the green macaw highly depends on it for its subsistence, besides feeding on it, is needed for nesting. We work with the scarlet macaw but we also work with agroforestry and we have selected the almond tree as one of the shade trees to plant cocoa. The fruit of the almond tree is associated with more than 60 species of birds, mammals and insects. Primates, parrots, toucans, oropendola and bats.

TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence 2015, has been awarded to Macaw Lodge, “as many of you know this certificate is awarded to properties that consistently achieve outstanding traveler reviews on TripAdvisor”.

It has been a wonderful and busy dry season at Macaw Lodge. We had visitors from different parts of the world. Our reviews are our testimony and our feedback to keep us on track. It is hard to pick one of these testimonies; all of them reflect the essence of what Macaw Lodge is about it: an experience for all the senses.