from £282.00
Colombia Coffee Zone Tour
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Day 1
On pick up from your accommodation in Bogota, you're friendly guide will whip you off to the local bus station where you'll board a trusty old bus with the rest of the populace and head on East. In Armenia, a driver will be waiting to transfer you onto the local hacienda and the remainder of the day is pretty much yours to do as you will.
Day 2
Today is all about getting to know your lovely brown bean, where it comes from and how it ends up! The excursion heads off through the coffee plantations set on the steep hills typical of this area. On a secondary road, you can observe the green carpeting of coffee plantations extending to the horizon, interrupted only by fincas covered in flowers (heliconias). Head on down to one of the area's coffee producing farms to see the plantation and production system, including the harvest, sun drying and processing. A visit to a "trilladora" after lunch will give you the opportunity to observe the manual selection process of the coffee grains, as well as the tasting to insure good quality flavour.
Day 3
A full day again, but this time you'll have the opportunity to go further a field from the coffee plantations! Your day kicks off with the Valle del Cocora. Located within the central mountain range, it is part of Los Nevados National Park, the ideal spot to admire the "palma de cera del Quindío" (Ceroxylon quindiuense), Colombia's token tree which can reach a height of 60 meters. Numerous bird species inhabit the area among. The roads are lined with numerous "fincas" or farm houses built in typical coffee growing architecture. Back at the local Hacienda, the evening is yours to do with as you please.
Day 4
After breakfast most of the day will be spent backtracking on local buses to Bogotá and back to your city hotel.
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