Private Tour
Small Group Guayaquil and Cocoa Farm Full-Day Tour
Overview
Available languages
7 hours
Mobile ticket
This is a great combination for a 7-hour day trip of Guayaquil. In this private tour, travelers get to see the countryside of Ecuador and check out the city of Guayaquil in the same day. From 10am to 2pm you will visit a Cocoa farm and the countryside to learn and make chocolate, after you'll visit the highlights of downtown Guayaquil. Tour includes hotel pickup and drop off with a driver/guide and transportation in a private vehicle.
Additional Info
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Child rate applies only when sharing with 2 paying adults
Children must be accompanied by an adult
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
Dress code is smart casual: a hat and sun protector is recommended
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
Travelers are picked up at 10am from their hotels to drive for an hour through the countryside to the cocoa farm. Once you get to the cocoa farm, you may walk around to see the nursery of cocoa trees, the cocoa plantation, and end up making chocolate from scratch. If you book the optional lunch at the farm, you will have lunch there. Otherwise, you come back to the city for lunch (at own expense). Next, your guide will take to the check the main highlights of downtown: The Iguana Park, The Cathedral, The Malecon 2000 and Las Peñas neighborhood. By the end of this activity, you will be driven back to your hotel.
What‘s Included
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Entrance fee
Lunch
Driver/guide
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
Options
Including lunch at the farm
In this option you get a 3 course lunch at the farm, after that we drive back to the city.
Pickup included
Reviews
119 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Full Day Cacao Farm tour and make your own Chocolate!
Maureen C,,Nov 28, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Highly recommend Mario! Mario is an amazing and very knowledgeable tour guide. He explained all the details of the cocoa farm process. The farm is lovely to visit. We made our own chocolate from scratch, roasting the beans and peeling them, then grinding to a paste in a hand grinder. We tasted unique drinks. The lunch was delightful, so tasty with a beautiful presentation. We made our own chocolate bars with different fixings as desired. The chocolate is excellent! We met the cocoa farm owners and were able to purchase chocolate bars at a very reasonable price. Heading back to Guayaquil, Mario showed us the highlights of a church, a beautiful street, and the iguana park. Mario shared the history of the city and was able to answer all our questions about life in Ecuador. We spent a full day from 10 am to 6pm with Mario. Thank you Mario, we love your country!
Great visit
Simone M,,Oct 14, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Mario was very thorough, knowledgeable and thoughtful on this tour. We easily made it up 444 steps for the view was nice.
Awesome guide and the tour changed the way I think about chocolate.
jiayuann2016,,Aug 25, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00My wife and I did a full day Guayaquil tour with Antonio Escobar. We started off with an excursion not too far out of the city in a cocoa farm where we see a range of local fruits and get to experience harvesting, roasting, grinding and tempering of cocoa to its finish product. We were guided by Rosa with Antonio translating along the way. We tasted the fruit at each process and it was an eye opener. Lunch at the farm was yummy. Antonio then brought us around the city, cathedral, iguana park, Malecon and the old districts. He gave great descriptions and historical information of the region and showed us a side of the city that we would not have experienced otherwise by ourselves. Throughout the tour Antonio made us feel safe and well looked after. Thank you for this wonderful experience of your city.
Our guide was Antonio and...
Emily S,,Aug 17, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Our guide was Antonio and he was really good about answering my additional questions about Ecuador that was not directly related to the tour. We had a great time at the farm and as others have stated the provided lunch was amazing. My child had a lot of fun making his own chocolate and seeing the many steps associated with it. The tour of Guayaquil was sufficient in letting us get a feel of the city and we felt safe the entire time with our guide telling us where we could and couldn’t go. Highly recommend this tour to anyone visiting Guayaquil!
An eventful day
rewi h,,Jun 13, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Our guide was Allyson. She picked us up from the hotel and we drove to Finca Cumanda. Rody explained everything there about cocoa growing and the many other fruits on the farm. Roasting the cocoa beans and producing your own chocolate was a great experience. Lunch at the farm was excellent. Afterwards, there was a city tour in Guayaquil. Highly recommended!
The Best Day!
177ellenl,,Jun 1, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We arrived a day early for our Galapagos tour so signed up for the all day cocoa plantation and city tour. This was a great choice and we had a wonderful day with our guide, Allyson, and driver Darwin. The plantation tour was fascinating and fun as we followed the process of the cocoa pod from taking it off the tree to making our souvenir candy bars. It was hands on, too, which engaged our interest. Our host at the plantation was so enthusiastic and knowledgeable- his family owns it- and we were treated to a delicious three course meal before we returned to town. Cautious travelers will be reassured to know that they used only filtered water for cooking and in the homemade lemonade. Allyson’s enthusiasm did not falter in the late afternoon walking tour of the city. She is a wealth of information and fun to be with. This was a fabulous day and some of the best money we’ve spent on tours.
Great way to spend our one day in Guayaquil!
Amy B,,May 12, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00This was a terrific tour. I was traveling with my adult son and we had only one day in Guayaquil before heading to the Galapagos. So glad we selected this particular tour. Mario picked us up at our hotel and we headed to the cocoa farm where we learned about all the many plants on the farm, made our own chocolate, and enjoyed a delicious lunch. Then, as an added benefit, Mario took us to several spots in Guayaquil and we learned some of the town’s history. Mario was a great guide - extremely knowledgeable and he shared his love for the area with us.
Excellent tour
Anita G,,Apr 4, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Mario does a wonderful tour! We were picked up promptly at our hotel. While driving to the cacao farm, Mario talked about the plan for the day; the Guayaquil area - neighborhoods, getting around the city, sightseeing, restaurants, local industries, and life in the city for its 3M inhabitants; Ecuador in general - its history, the regions within the country, seasons, primary industries and exports. After arriving at the cacao farm, Rody, the owner, showed us around the farm and had us taste several fruits grown with the cacao trees. The fruits add various aromas to the cacao. Some of the fruits we recognized, others were new to us. All were delicious. We then went through the chocolate-making process which was a lot of fun. Afterward, we had a delightful lunch and then returned to the city. We stopped at Parque Seminario and the Catedral Metropoltana de Guayaquil; went up to Mirador Bellavista; and toured the cemetery. It was a very full, lovely day with Mario. I highly recommend this tour.
You won't be disappointed!!!
Margaret L,,Feb 8, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00What a fabulous tour in every respect. Such an entertaining and knowledgeable team. We loved the tour of the farm--so much more than cacao to explore and taste--and the chocolate making was such fun. And lunch--oh my! Took Farm-to-Table to the next level. My daughter and I thoroughly enjoyed our day at your farm.
We enjoyed walking...
Steven S,,Jan 30, 2025
- Review from Viator
4.00We enjoyed walking through the orchards with lots of different fruit trees, not just cacao trees. It was obvious from the start that our guides were not just knowledgeable but passionate about the farm and of course about everything chocolate.
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