Colombia's 11 Best Coffee Tours

The WakeCup Experience Coffee Tour by Experiencia Cafetera has been called ‘Colombia’s best coffee tour’ and it’s easy to understand why when you take the tour: a truly immersive coffee tour based out of the lovely little town of Pijao – like Salento with no tourists – the tour spends time with local farmers, jeep drivers, and coffee entrepreneurs, and gives you a real insight into the culture of Colombian coffee.

Bogota’s best coffee tour is this excellent Specialty Coffee Tour, which takes you on a tour around the best independent cafes in the city, explaining in the process the culture behind speciality coffee in Colombia. The guides are passionate coffee-lovers, and their insights – along with those of the baristas serving you – will prove invaluable, especially if you’re new to the coffee scene.

If you only have a short time in Colombia and don’t have time to make it to the Coffee Region then this day-tour of a coffee farm from Bogota is a must. Taking you to the stunning Cerro del Quinini a few hours south of Bogota, the tour explores the plantations of a local collective of farmers producing truly environmentally-friendly, shade-grown coffee in a stunning natural setting.

Salento is probably the most visited town in the Colombian Coffee Region, so it’s where most people end up taking a coffee tour. There are two excellent coffee tours available in and around the town (see the second below), and Finca El Ocaso’s tour is one of them. Taking place on a lovely little traditional farm, the tour offers a comprehensive introduction to the growing process of Colombian coffee.

A speciality coffee company operating coffee shop tours in Bogota, Travesia’s tours are another great way to get to know the Bogota coffee scene with passionate local experts. With coffee shop tours in both La Candelaria and Chapinero neighbourhoods, Travesia Coffee Tours are the perfect introduction to Colombian coffee before you head off into the Coffee Region.

La Victoria Coffee Plantation is a lovely traditional coffee farm just outside Minca in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains on the Colombian Caribbean coast. It also boasts some of the oldest machinery of any farm in Colombia, and their unique tour explains how their old yet effective harvesting system works, entirely through water and machinery dating back to the era of Queen Victoria (hence the name).

Jardin in Antioquia department might just be one of the most beautiful coffee towns you’ll ever visit, so it makes sense to take a coffee tour while you’re there. At the lovely Finca Milena coffee farm, not only can you stay in an authentic traditional coffee farmhouse, but you can also take an informative tour to learn all about the coffee process.

The other top coffee tour in Salento takes place on the little coffee farm of Don Eduardo, a local Colombian coffee farmer with a lifetime of knowledge and experience, all of which he brings to the tour with his passion and enthusiasm. It’s perhaps a more authentic experience than El Ocaso, and the positive reviews for Don Eduardo and his tour just keep coming!

Medellin’s best coffee tour is run by Toucan Cafe and Tours – they offer a variety of coffee experiences, including coffee tasting at their cafe, a barista workshop, and a coffee tour to a local coffee plantation in the mountains around the city. If you want to learn about coffee in Colombia’s second city, then this is the tour for you.