Historic Coffee Farm Guided Tour - We had a great experience and learned so much about the historic Fazenda da Taquara coffee farm. Our guide was Wagner and he did an amazing job translating on the tour. He picked us up at our hotel and pointed out many interesting facts as we drove 3 hours from Rio to the coffee farm. When we arrived at the coffee farm, a member of the family gave the actual farm and farmhouse tour. The tour was in Portuguese, and our guide Wagner translated everything into English for us. The family member gave a detailed tour of the coffee farm, including explanations of the coffee production process from growing to washing to roasting. After the coffee tour, we had a tour of the historic farmhouse. There is much history and many antiques in the house that we learned about. All of this was followed by a wonderful lunch of stuffed breads, coffee, and sweets served in the farmhouse. The family members of the original farmhouse were so friendly and welcoming we felt right at home.

Fantastic day on historic coffee plantation - My friend and I had a great trip with the guide Monica who was so sweet and friendly. Here we got both the story of the importance of coffee for this country and the past of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro with among others slaves. Monica’s incredible knowledge and enthusiasm made the trip to this coffee plantation both enlightening and very exciting. For anyone interested in exploring Brazilian culture and history through coffee beans, this tour is a must. I highly recommend both Monica and this full-day tour.

Amazing coffee farm tour - Our coffee farm tour in Rio was an unforgettable experience, largely due to our fantastic guide, Monica. She expertly guided us through the rich history of coffee, weaving in interesting stories about Brazil and Rio de Janeiro's past. Monica’s deep knowledge and enthusiasm made the tour both enlightening and engaging. For anyone interested in exploring Brazilian culture and history through the lens of coffee, this tour is a must. Highly recommended!

Very authentic visit - Very nice and authentic visit, were you are introduced to the family story and the production of high quality organisation Coffee. However, please note it is quite a long drive from Rio (Copacabana).

Great insight into the coffee growing industry. Highly recommend. - Wonderful trip to this small coffee plantation with the original colonial house. Our guide , Monica, was really knowledgeable about the history of the country, slavery and plantations. We all really enjoyed meeting Marcelo and his wife and learning about the coffee growing and harvesting process.

Much knowledge about coffee and the history of Brazil - The excursion is spectacular. You learn a lot, both about coffee and the history of the Hacienda and Brazil. I highly recommend doing this excursion because of everything you learn and because of how different it is from other river excursions.

Visit to the coffee farm - Visiting a coffee farm is a wonderful cultural experience that touches our senses and imagination. It's as if we were in a historical soap opera with coffee barons, slaves, social life in the 19th century... Fazenda da Taquara is unique, as we are welcomed and guided by the owner Marcelo, sixth generation of the same family, who tells us the history of the place with great pride. His wife Cleide is lovely and presented us with a delicious homemade corn and guava cake (my youngest daughter devoured half of it! I beg your pardon!🤣). The coffee is special and premium. Everything done with lots of love and dedication. This place deserves to be known and publicized. I brought coffee with me, but when I finish it, my memories of this charming farm will remain. I also cannot fail to thank the guide Mónica Bertazzolo who was tireless in telling us the history of coffee in Brazil and the slaves who worked on the farms. He has great knowledge about the odyssey of slaves. He is a wonderful person who I recommend asking for this and other cultural tours in Rio. I am very grateful for having chosen this tour. It filled my soul and was the best of many I've done.

Great tour, great coffee farm - 100% a great tour and a great day for us: Monica - the tour guide - excellent knowledge about Rio / Brazil history - very good English and a very nice person Gregorio - the driver - very safe driving, funny, good English as well Car, pick-up, drop-of, communication from tour agency - all perfect The farm was very nice, a lot of history. The owners, Marcelo and his wife are trying to conserve it and also to produce a high quality coffee. We made a tour around the farm, we visited the historic house, we had a cake, nice coffee and some very nice conversations. All the best from Anca and Mihai from Romania.

Best experience in Brazil – feel invited to a historic home - Amazing family sharing remarkable history and hospitality with their guests. A unique farm that has been owned by one family for almost two centuries. They keep a lot of original furniture, clothes, tableware, and have renovated a very cozy dining hall for events and gatherings. A special treat is the gourmet coffee grown at this farm. You will learn all the prep steps and enjoy sweet treats baked by the owner’s wife. Be aware that they only speak Portuguese, so you’ll definitely need a guide who speaks your language. Highly, totally, and undoubtedly recommended!! 11 out of 10 stars :)

Very Bad experience all around - misinformation, poor use of my time/money - I would NOT recommend this tour. Specifically, I would not recommend this tour to non-Portuguese speakers. We were originally told this was an 8 AM tour. The evening before we were told that we’d get picked up at 11 AM instead of 8 AM for a 3 PM Tour. At the time that we took this tour, there was only one tour time per day. So we had no choice but to accept. Departing from Rio, the Farm was 2.5 hours away, one way! Our Viator tour guide told us that she’d never been assigned to this tour before and therefore she had little to no information about the days events. We met at the pickup point where we waited for other tour-goers. We ended up driving ~5-6 hours in a small 5 passenger vehicle with 5 passengers loaded into it. We were offered 0 bathroom breaks or food breaks from the moment we left Rio until we returned to Rio 7 hours later (except for at the farm). At the farm, the farm owner/guide arrives and informs all of us that he doesn’t speak English (which everyone else on the tour spoke.) He explains to our Viator tour guide that she will have to translate EVERYTHING he says into broken English. Now, imagine never being to a location and not knowing anything about a place… you’re spoken to in Portuguese and somebody else is translating their second language and you still can’t understand what is happening. I give credit to our Viator tour guide for trying, but there were many instances where the Farm owner and guide talked for many minutes straight without a single translation simply because the Viator guide was overwhelmed and didn’t know how to translate properly everything that she was being taught. To cap it all off… there was BY FAR one of the more expensive tours that we went on during our 12 days in Brazil. It felt like we were cheated out of nearly $300 USD for 6 hours in a crammed vehicle, 1 hour tour, and very little new learnings about what was expected.