Embark on the La Palma y El Tucan Organic Coffee Tour near Bogota and discover the fascinating journey from seed to cup. Learn about coffee production, taste different flavors, and explore the machinery behind the process.
- Bogota - With just a 2-hour drive outside of Bogotá, the weather gets warmer, and an awarded high-quality coffee is grown carefully among steep mountains, dense forests, and low-flying clouds. La Palma & El Tucán, not only produces top-notch coffee but they also benefit coffee-growing families nearby, supporting fair-trade and eco-farming.
You will be driven from a meeting point right into the countryside through the plains of Bogotá’s Savannah. As you reach the destination, you will feel a slight change in temperature; a few degrees warmer and some MASL lower which open the possibility of coffee growing close to the big city.
- LA PALMA Y EL TUCAN HOTEL - Enter La Palma & El Tucán. Admire their coffee plantations until you reach the coffee bar area. You will be received with a special coffee brewed carefully to highlight the exquisite flavors of Colombian Coffee.
After enjoying your coffee and being introduced to the place, learn the different stages of the coffee process. Starting with the seeds, then transplantation, crops, and harvest you will get in touch with nature and learn about different coffee species and the factors that make Colombian special coffee so valuable. Enter the coffee lab where you will get to know coffee tasting facts and learn to differ and recognize the many flavors present in this beverage.
Finally, enjoy a delicious lunch prepared with many ingredients from the fields. Afterward, you can enjoy one last coffee as you solve your doubts and learn more from our knowledgeable guide before returning to Bogotá.
- Coffee tasting
- Private 4x4 vehicle
- Lunch
- Knowledgeable Guide in Spanish and English
- Coffee tour
- Tips and gratuities
- Unspecified food and beverages.
How this tour creates an impact
La Palma y el Tucán is not only a breathtakingly beautiful place to develop a deep understanding of coffee but is also a community-driven social project. By selling their coffee, called neighbors & crops, they support smaller, neighboring coffee farmers. Often smaller coffee producers struggle to create a sustainable business around commercializing their product. La Palma y el Tucán offers a solution to this problem by taking over the logistics of distributing and processing the coffee so that farmers can focus on the quality of their product.
- Please advise in advance for vegetarian meal request.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
