The grove and its shadow
A wooded estate at Adoukoffikro, in the commune of Abengourou. You walk under an open canopy, among trees carrying fruit of different ages.
Come for a dayWhat is there
Walks under the trees, the biodiversity of the grove, rest areas, and spaces that host events — family days, birthdays, receptions.
The ground is earth. Depending on the hour it does not give back the same colour: ochre in full sun, blue-grey in the cast shadow of a trunk. It is the same earth.
The promoter’s intent
Jean KOREKI, tourism consultant and promoter, carries the project: to make eastern Côte d’Ivoire a destination worth visiting for itself, and to put the region to work in doing so.
The estate and the Road of Kings are conceived together: you do not simply visit a place, you enter a territory — the Indénié, the Djuablin, Bron country. No operator in the East offered this pairing before.
Surface area, number of trees, capacity, jobs created, sustainability indicators: these figures are not established yet. They therefore appear nowhere on this site.
The cocoa tree, caught in the act
A pod takes five to seven months to turn from green to yellow, and the tree does not ripen them together. One trunk therefore carries, at the same moment, a green fruit and a ripe one.
It is the best summary of this place: two states, one material, and it is the light — or time — that decides what you see.