A woman walking through Aburi with a box of bread on her head -- a traditional schlepping technique.
The mountain town of Aburi.
A ripe cocoa seed pod with all the seeds, containing the cocoa beans, inside. 
The wet cocoa beans are laid onto a banana leaf.
They are covered with banana leaves for 1 week.
And voila... dried cocoa beans! (To be shipped to Cadbury.)
Asenema Waterfall.
Mike,
ReplyDeleteMy grad school friend Beth did an extensive exhibit on chocolate at the US Botanic Gardens as a volunteer. Nice to see it at the source.
Bill S