From Bogotá: Coffee Plantation Experience
ID: GYG73873-103857
Category:
Country: Colombia
Duration:
08:00 hours
Description
Learn how coffee is grown and produced at a coffee plantation on an excursion from Bogotá. Help pick the coffee beans and taste a freshly roasted brew at the end of a typical lunch.
Depart Bogotá and journey for 1.5 hours down the mountains to a coffee plantation 1,720 meters above sea level. Learn how the climate provides optimal conditions for growing coffee, and take a tour of the orchid gardens.
Savor the aroma of coffee as you help collect coffee beans from the trees. Learn about both traditional and the industrial process of producing coffee, from the seed to your cup.
Sample some homemade ajiaco (a soup popular in Colombia) cooked using the farm's own seasoning. After lunch, taste a freshly roasted and brewed coffee. Visit the village market to appreciate the diversity of Colombia's exotic fruits, vegetables and herbs.
Highlights
- Explore a traditional coffee estate
- Wander through the dense coffee crop
- Learn about the manners and lifestyle of the coffee growing population
- Taste the result of the coffee producing process
- Enjoy a magnificent homemade “ajiaco” cooked with the coffee farm's own seasoning
- Go to a local market to see the diversity of the produce
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
• Please note that the order of the tour may be modified by weather factors and it may take longer than usual
• Please advise in advance for a vegetarian meal
Pick-up from your hotel in Bogotá.
When should I book?
To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.
Cancellations
Cancellation is not possible. If you cancel it anyway or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity and the money you paid will not be refunded.
