New Puerto Vallarta Tour for Chocolate Lovers

If you love a walking tour or two, and you have a sweet tooth, you really need to pay attention to this new Puerto Vallarta attraction. The Chocolate Walk is all new, and it’s all good. Not only will this walk cover the history and origins of chocolate, and of course the history of the city. If you consider yourself to be a chocoholic you will definitely not want to miss this newest addition to the Puerto Vallarta family,

New Puerto Vallarta tour for chocolate lovers

The Chocolate Walk will give you and a small group of like-minded people a glimpse into the processes and products of some of the finest chocolatiers in Puerto Vallarta! You will get to actually see the inside of two production kitchens, and there will of course be samples! Don’t worry; you’ll have plenty of opportunity to purchase your favorite treats on the way.

History of chocolate

History and Chocolate are firmly and indelibly linked in Mexico, and as you walk around Puerto Vallarta you will no doubt come to see this. Many of the discussion during this tour will concern the origins and development of chocolate amongst the indigenous peoples of Mexico and how it eventually spread throughout the world.

Mexico’s chocolate

Today chocolate is one of the most popular sweets and treats in the world, but its popularity in Mexico has been longer lived by far than in any other country. Chocolate has been around in Mexico for around 4,000 years and has been used for ceremonies and in medicines just as often has it has been consumed for enjoyment.

For the Aztecs the beans of the Cacao tree (from which modern chocolate is derived) were used in ceremonies and rituals in the form of a beverage, while the Maya used Cacao beans for a variety of medicinal purposes. In fact, even the word “chocolate” is a derivative of the Aztec “xocoatl” (which is the name of the drink they brewed with the beans).

For ancient Mexicans Cacao beans have had a revered position in the ceremonies surrounding birth, death, and marriage for many thousands of years.

You will learn much about this during the Chocolate Walk, but you will also get to have a “hands on” experience, too, when you grind cacao beans for that ancient beverage in a mini-class at the end of the tour. You will see for yourself if this drink was as heavenly as the Spanish Conquistadores believed.

If all this adventure leaves you in the mood to shop you will be pleased by the fact that the tour allows time to buy many chocolate themes treats. You will be able to bag some cacao hand lotions, body butters, soaps, and of course edible treats too.

The Puerto Vallarta Chocolate Walk began in October 2017 and will run on Wednesdays and Fridays at 10am and 2pm respectively during the high season from October through April. Find out more and book your tour online at www.PuertoVallartaWalkingTours.com.