That’s where I want to go,” we hear again and again when we talk about our
cacao cultivation in the Urubamba Valley. And of course you can do that, is
However, it is much more time-consuming than many people think. From Europe goes
it by 12-hour flight to Lima. Here must be at least once
overnight stay, before it on the next day, also by flight to
Cusco goes. While (the desert city!) Lima is at sea level,
the Inca metropolis of Cusco is located in the Andes at an altitude of 3,400 meters. Who
does not want to get completely ready, also spend the night here again,
before it then with the bus in steep serpentines always higher and
finally goes over the Andean pass at an altitude of almost 4,400 m. In wide
arcs on the other side towards the mountain rainforest, and
finally after about five hours of driving to Quillabamba. Here too,
must be spent the night again, before it goes on day four by minibus to
Ivochote on the Urubamba goes. Once more overnight and then it can,
after five days, finally into the agroforestry systems of our farmers and the
surrounding rainforest.
Did you know that one bar of CHUNCHO GOLD Grand Cru contains cocoa from two CHuncho fruits?
That’s a total of about 66 cocoa beans. Because chuncho pods are smaller than the highly cultivated industrial cocoa varieties and the cocoa beans, the