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Chocolate Tours With a Conscience

If you love chocolate, you may be interested in learning about the origins of this sweet treat. Here are some socially conscious chocolate tours that are good for your body and soul.

On a tour with Sweet Earth Chocolates, you can visit villages in Ghana and the Ivory Coast, where you’ll learn about the chocolate industry from the ground up.

You’ll talk with local farmers, visit cocoa-bean drying plants and watch cocoa being shipped from the ports.

Yachana Gourmet promotes sustainable development and rain forest conservation, and offers a trek through the Amazon rainforest to see cacao trees first-hand.

Starting at $100, you can add on a participatory tour to help harvest the beans at a local farm.

And, for just over $2,000, you can travel with Discover Chocolate and stay at an ecolodge, participate in a Mayan chocolate-making workshop and learn about the history of chocolate.

Don’t miss The Sweetest Chocolate Tours Good for the Body and Soul.

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