Costa Rica is synonymous with coffee. Think Costa Rica and you'll think coffee. You can't go anywhere in the country without passing by the bushy coffee plants growing on the sides of mountains and volcanoes. For our last full day in Costa Rica, we decided to embark on a coffee tour at Cafe Britt, just north of San Jose in Heredia. We couldn't visit one of the top exporters of the delicious bean and not check it out, especially since my sisters and I are coffee-addicts ourselves. For decades, coffee was the lifeline of Costa Rica, flowing through the economy like blood through a warm body. It still is a vital part of the nation's industry, but nowadays, it is export numero 3 since being supplanted by tourism and pineapples in the last decade. During our
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