Even without a life-long love of chocolate, the cocoa plantation would have been super cool. But given how much I love chocolate....going tot the cocoa plantation was one of the best things I've ever done. I've had 70% cacao bars at home, but I've officially had 100% dark chocolate! I also have a basic understanding of how chocolate is made: cocoa beans are grown in yellow pods (you can actually eat the fruit--it's very tasty!); cocoa harvesters remove the center of these pods and let the fruit ferment in plantain leaves for a week; after a week, the harvesters remove the placenta (name for the center of the fruit) and let the cocoa beans dry out; finally, the beans are sent to the grinders to be processed into cocoa powder! Ghana is known for their cocoa, and this plantation was the first cocoa plantation in Ghana. Accomplishment.
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