From Seed to Cup - Coffee Experience at La Palma y El Tucan
- 10 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
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.
Inclusions
What's included
- Coffee tasting
- Private 4x4 vehicle
- Lunch
- Knowledgeable Guide in Spanish and English
- Coffee tour
What's not
- Tips and gratuities
- Unspecified food and beverages.
Itinerary
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.
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.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Pickup
- Pickup is included for everyone.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 18 travellers
- Operated by
- Impulse Travel
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Please advise in advance for vegetarian meal request.
How it compares in Bogotá
- Its from-price is 97% above the median of the 187 day trips we list in Bogotá.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 94 of 187.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Bogotá
Bogotá, Colombia's capital, sits high in the Andes at around 2,600 metres, with a colonial old quarter, a famed gold museum and a hilltop church.
La Candelaria, the old quarter, lies at the foot of the eastern hills, with streets of colonial houses, galleries and murals around Plaza de Bolívar and its cathedral. The Gold Museum holds thousands of pre-Hispanic gold objects, and the Botero Museum shows the plump figures of Fernando Botero, who gave the city his collection. Above town, a funicular and cable car rise to Monserrate, a white church at over 3,100 metres.
Top-ranked sights in Bogotá: Plaza de Bolivar, Botero Museum (Museo Botero), Gold Museum (Museo del Oro).
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