The 7 Best Coffee Tours in Bogotá, Colombia

Colombia’s year-round, altitude-dependent climate is warm and humid within in the coffee triangle and surrounding areas, making it the perfect location to produce large quantities of coffee. Coffee production is a fine art and skill, which has been carefully crafted over hundreds of years. While the coffee triangle is Colombia’s coffee capital, the country’s capital, Bogotá, has a large number of specialty coffee shops, production laboratories and coffee experts. Here are five coffee tours in Colombia that are bringing the coffee back to the city by demonstrating coffee production from seed to cup and explaining the coffee’s origins.

Learn all about coffee – from the bean all the way to the cup – as you walk through a trendy Bogotá neighbourhood on this beloved coffee shop tour. A guide with real expertise in the coffee industry talks to you about the process of picking the cherries, drying and roasting the beans, and finally pouring the perfect cup of coffee. You’ll walk to a number of specialty coffee shops to try their best brews—a must for all coffee lovers visiting Bogotá.

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If a private tour is more your thing, Coffee Farm Hacienda La Coloma offers a great opportunity. Discover how coffee goes from the farm right the way to the cup on this enjoyable day trip from Bogotá. Visit nearby Hacienda Coloma in Fusagasugá to learn how coffee is actually grown, harvested, and then processed. You can take part in a coffee-tasting lesson, plus, hear about the history of coffee in Colombia and its symbolic importance to the world.

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Discover the wonderful world of coffee and learn how the elixir is made during this interesting coffee farm experience. Taking place near Bogota, you join a small group and set out for the town of Choachi, just on the outskirts, where the farm is located. You’ll learn about the daily life of a coffee farmer as well as the coffee manufacturing process.

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Discover Bogotá’s rich food culture on this in-demand guided evening tour of the Usaquén neighborhood. Visit three restaurants in the area and including Libertario Coffee Roasters, Casa Café Cultor and Chuculat.

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Lucia Londoño Tostadores is a company specializing in coffee production, methods of brewing and has many coffee experts in Bogotá and throughout the country. The company offers a coffee tasting tour in the capital, which allows tour participants to become educated in, learn about and experience different types of coffee. This tour aims to allow individuals to gain knowledge of coffee roasting, preparation, harvesting and brewing methods. Participants will be exposed to different varieties of coffee, to allow them to compare the quality and recognize the characteristics in order to enhance future coffee drinking experiences.

Travesía Coffee is a specialist coffee company which operates two tours within the city – in the La Candelaria and Chapinero neighborhoods. These tours are designed to help people discover the city’s best coffee, give coffeeshops the recognition they deserve, the history of coffee and how the coffee industry is establishing itself. Both of the tours show participants how coffee gets from the farm to the cup and offers samples of rich and organic Colombian coffee. Both tours are available from Monday to Saturday, cost between US$15 and US$20, and each tour lasts approximately two-and-a-half hours.

Varietale is a coffeeshop with a difference, designed to resemble a traditional coffee shop, which attracts visitors from all over the city. The shop offers visitors the chance to go behind the bar and discover the coffee process. There is a coffee laboratory for groups to learn about the shop’s coffee, origins and history. The shop also stocks a large number of unique coffees to buy or sample, and with each coffee purchase customers receive an information sheet about the coffee’s origin and bean-to-cup process.