We started today with a very thorough tour of the Marchesan Factory, then went on a tour of an orange grove. This sounds very quaint at first - but wait untll I describe a little bit more. We had an all access pass through the factory - able to see all of the fabrication, designing and assembly of the machines being produced. Afterwards, our gracious hosts took us to an area orange grove.

This entire orange farm consists of 9,000 acres with over 1.5 million orange trees! An absolutely fabulous site to see. It´s not everyday taht a farm manager grabs a mango from a tree, peels it and offers it to you. Also on the property they grow sugar cane and have a grove of 220,000 rubber trees. I had never seen a rubber tree before - so that was an experience. If I heard correctly, these rubber trees can be productive for more than 50 years.

We`ll have to wait and see what`s on the agenda tomorrow.