Top Andes Food & Drink

Discover a stunning landscape at the foot of Los Nevados on a full-day tour to Cocora Valley, a coffee farm and Salento. Follow trails through soaring wax palms, and listen for the sounds of tropical birds and wildlife as you hike into a mountainside cloud forest. Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant, then follow the coffee production process from plant to cup on a local farm. Explore brightly painted architecture and a historic town square in the picture-perfect colonial town of Salento before returning to Pereira.

Visit a forest preserve and a picture-perfect colonial town with a full-day tour to Filiania from Pereira, and experience Colombia’s remarkable nature, culture and heritage. Listen for howler monkeys and tropical birds as you trace a scenic trail through the forest, and learn about the area’s plants, animals and agriculture. Enjoy a creative lunch in Filandia, then explore the city on foot with a local historian. Trace a route through the city’s colorful neighborhoods, visit a local basket weaver and enjoy coffee with a view before returning to Pereira.

Discover mountain villages and hillside farms on a full-day tour to Quindio and Pijao from Pereira, and immerse yourself in Colombia’s remarkable landscape and coffee culture. Learn why Cordoba’s coffee is among the best in the world, and see how the beans go from field to cup. Navigate rolling foothills on your way to Pijao, then slow down to the pace of traditional life: stroll picturesque streets, have lunch in a local house and take in the views over a cup of local coffee.

The Ramón y Elena Coffee Route is a model of entrepreneurship with social impact. In addition to entertainment, visitors will find how economic benefit can be integrated with nature conservation and social impact. In Ramón and Elena we collect rainwater and use it for the benefit of coffee, we recognize a fair payment to the collectors and we have the Recolecta Amor program, for the education of the children of the collectors. On our route you will find a large number of varieties of fruit trees that provide shade to coffee and help conserve the ecosystem.

Cooking stories is an encounter with memory and territory. It is an experience with the Coffee Axis through its smells, tastes, textures and narrations. In it they try, feel and prepare some of the foods that are served today in the tables of this mountainous land. At the same time, you can hear stories from distant and nearby times that were told in books or transmitted by grandparents. It is a journey through the identity of men and women who from pre-Columbian times inhabited this territory, going through the time of the conquest and arriving at the coffee farm.

Quindio's Botanical garden and Butterfly's house. Place to enjoy the mountain rainforest, native plant collections (Palms, Heliconias, Tree ferns, Orchids, Carnivore plants), Birds observatory, Observation Towel, Different Museums (Palms, Geological, Tunnel museum, Insects, Butterflies), Butterfly's house and Hummingbirds feeders.

Our tour begins by picking you up in Jericó to transport you down a bumpy path to the family run coffee farm. After a traditional Colombian meal cooked by Ariel and his family, The guide will then take you on a tour around the farm. You will learn about the property, and receive a hands on experience whilst learning about the coffee cultivation process. They will take you through picking the coffee fruits, then teach you about the de-shelling, fermentation, cleaning, drying and roasting. On the way back to Jericó we will stop by a waterfall where you will have the opportunity to view a beautiful rainbow through the water (weather permitting). We will then return to Jericó.