Top Andes Tours, Sightseeing & Cruises

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.

This is a complete adventure surrounding the active volcano Nevado del Ruiz. Backpackers Colombia apart itself from most conventional tour operators by creating off the beaten track adventures which are much more than just a simple tour. Conventional tour operators mostly offer a very short tour inside the park and then to artificial hot springs. In this complete adventure (12-14 hours) everything you'll see is completely natural, we will get many different views to the active volcano and hike for a few hours. We adapt the adventure to the physical conditions of each person and can take you to you to the highlight places by 4X4 car or hike our way, you choose it yourself.

This is a route that mixes high mountains (4450 meters) with volcanic-Andean landscapes and thermal baths, allowing visitors to see 2 very interesting attractions of Manizales such as the Nevado del Ruiz and the Termales del Otoño

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.

You will know the Páramo in a unique and electrifying way. We have designed a tour that creates a perfect balance between beauty and fun in Los Nevados National Park.

We offer very modern, high quality and well maintained mountain bikes for your use in and around the town of Jericó, Colombia. We provide you with protective helmet as well as a lock and key to keep the bike secure when it isn't in use. It is an amazing way to explore this vast, breathtaking area.

Manizales opens its doors to show us one of the most spectacular landscapes: its coffee plantations. During this tour you will have the opportunity to mix the delight of your gaze with the forces of your legs to reach the end. Each piece will be a mixture of sensations, which upon reaching the goal will leave you with only one word: WOW! This Cross Country route combines good pedaling, good coffee and a unique landscape. We will cross routes that include uncovered roads and challenging climbs. This route is perfect for riders who like to pedal, want to have a very good experience and prefer not to take aggressive descents.

Adventure and landscapes are the scene of this one day trip, we will feel what is the freedom to go on two wheels, we will be inspired by one of the best routes that the city of open doors, Manizales, has. We will go up and get to know one of the most complete and fun routes we have around the city: challenging climbs, descending roads and pastures, landscapes that will delight us and that will lead us to live a truly memorable experience. This crossing is perfect for riders who want to live a bike day, who like to cycle through diverse terrain and put a little touch of adrenaline on their departures.

Our location and availability to both the carribean and pacific oceans gives us access to the best ! We provide well maintained up to date equipment. All our equipment is maintained with upmost care in mind.

Visit the beautiful Cocora valley with an excellent bilingual guide and see the tallest palm trees in the world. Once you get to the entrance of the valley, you can walk for as long as you want, see the beauty of the valley, and take pictures with the palm trees. You will then spend some time in the coffee towns of Salento, where they have a nice observatory with an amazing view for you to delight in. Finally, drive to the coffee town of Filandia and absorb the relaxed and laidback culture of this colorful coffee town. Enjoy the atmosphere of Salento and Filandia and experience life in a coffee town! You will have private transportation and a bilingual guide with you.

It is a walk full of experiences that you will never forget. It doesn't matter if you've never ridden before ...

Discover the magnificent central Andean mountains, walk between frailejones and pristine lagoons. Enjoy the volcanic landscape and after a 7 km trekking, take a hot spring bath surrounded by nature at 4,000 m.a.s.l.

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.

Impressive viewpoint of the valley in the nearby mountain. You may appreciate different towns of the region from here as well as the Cauca river canyon, which is the greenest canyon in the world. Memorable moments happen at sunsets, so plan your walk in advance. You may keep venturing through the forest to find amazing views of the vegetation here.

Live the experience of travelling on the coffee Cultural landscape in a different way. The tour starts by crossing the Valley with the highest wax Palms in the world, feeling their immensity, through a walk that leads to a beautiful lookout in the middle of the mountains. Enjoy Salento´s traditional cuisine, considered by several media specialized in tourism, as one of the most beautiful villages of Colombia. Go through these mountains by bike, smoothly descending paths surrounded by breath-taking landscapes, between coffee plantations that lead to the Quindío River. Try a cup of the softest coffee in the world. Wheel by a former railway which was part of the infrastructure that the coffee-growers built in order to strengthen the marketing of the country’s main product in the mid-20th century. The topography is friendly to beginners and advanced cyclists. It is a journey to be with nature and several landscapes.

With every view you enjoy you will want more, but don't worry! Because in the end, we will find the cherry that the cake needed, a waterfall will be the indicator that we have reached our destination, its whiteness, its sound, its majesty will make us understand that fatigue is worth it and that the bike simply shows us what is the freedom to go on two wheels and be able to reach magical and enchanted places. The shot along this route, will make you see the wonders of nature, each piece will allow you to enjoy the landscapes that you find on the road, will allow you to dream and appreciate everything with what you find. Cold, heat, sun or wind will be in charge of being in our road, they will not be an impediment to reach our goal. This one-day mountain bike tour is the perfect plan for those riders who like to mix a good ride with nature and natural landscapes.

Coming to the Coffee Region is about letting yourself be in connection with nature and learning about the most popular beverage of the world. If this is what you are looking for, join us in this 8-hour tour across the Cocora Valley and a specialized coffee farm. Hike some of its mountains, and learn about about Colombian coffee farming culture. Finish your day having a tasteful and 100% Colombian coffee. All of this with the company of an expert guide. • A walk to remember around the Cocora Valley • A brief lesson about the Coffee Triangle and the Wax Palm Trees for its environmental and popular importance • A guided tour along the farm and its plantation • Getting to know the full process of growing coffee, from its seeds to the roasting • Picking up coffee cherries and planting coffee seedlings • A brief lesson about the great value of coffee for Colombian coffee growers and the country’s economy in general. • High-quality Colombian coffee tasting

Sometimes, there is no better plan than stopping for a moment, relaxing, and letting nature bring you the best of it. In this full-day tour, we will take you to the traditional town of Santa Rosa de Cabal, famous in our country for two things: hot springs and foodstuff, like chorizo. Visit this town and then spent some hours receiving the healing properties of the volcano waters of the hot springs. It’s a chance to revive your spirits. Enjoy this therapeutic experience in the hot and rich in minerals medicinal waters of the thermal springs. Taste one of the most popular varieties of Colombian chorizo: santarrosano

Coming to the Coffee Region is letting yourself be in connection with nature. If this is what you are looking for, join us in this 6-hour tour across the Cocora Valley, and imposing open field, home to the wax palm. Hike some of its mountains, learn about the national tree and about Colombian coffee farming culture and finish your day having a tasteful and humble local meal (not included). All of this with the company of an expert guide.

We are people of the region with extensive experience in tourism in the coffee axis.In this tour we will take you to know one of the region's badges destinations such as thermal springs, a place full of magic and completely surrounded by native trees where you can Take a delicious bath in 100% natural waters with lots of healing and healthy properties for our visitors from which they will be renewed.

A trip to one of the Coffee Triangle towns wouldn’t be complete without visiting a coffee farm, are we right? So, come with us on this fun and informative tour about everything you need to know about the coffee process. You will visit a coffee farm and you will have the chance of planting coffee seedlings, pick up coffee cherries and last but not least, taste the flavor of a fresh cup of Colombian coffee.

It is a tour where our clients will be able to know the magic of our landscapes and our villages, visiting and knowing unique places in the world where they can take pleasant experiences and unforgettable moments.

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.

The mountains of the Coffee Cultural Landscape are the ideal setting for a great mountain hike in a unique setting, due to the beauty and immensity of wax palms and changing greens on the horizon. That is why we move to the Cocora Valley to start a nature circuit that surrounds us with all its landscapes and diversity of territory. Ascending in a unique adventure in the very heights, to know the shelter of the hummingbirds, have a typical drink, go up the hill and finally have a little snack. Moreover, we proceed descending through the hills and the farms that border the place, thus crossing the highest Palms in the world. Concluding, having lunch in one of the fanciest restaurants in the region next to the best views of the zone.