Medellin Coffee Tours

Half-Day Coffee Tour: From the Seed to the Cup, Farm & roastery

Follow one bean from a plantation row to a cupping table in a single morning. Three hours on an organic coffee farm cover planting, picking and processing; two more at a specialty micro-roastery cover milling, roasting and a tasting of lots scored by professional graders. Snacks, coffee, private transport, a translator and tour insurance are in the fare, and pickup is free in El Poblado with a surcharge elsewhere. It starts at 8am from Poblado metro station, caps at fifteen travellers, and does not include lunch, so eat before you go.

1. Meet at Poblado metro station at 8am
2. Short drive out to the organic coffee farm
3. Three hours walking the plantation with your guide
4. Taste coffee grown on that farm
5. Transfer to a specialty micro-roastery
6. Two hours on milling and roasting
7. Cupping of high-scoring specialty coffees
8. Back to the Poblado meeting point

From $86 per person

Medellin Coffee Farm Tour with Panoramic Cable Car Views

Ride the Metrocable and the Ayacucho tram to a working coffee farm that never leaves Medellin. Your guide walks you into Barrio La Sierra in Comuna 8, past the neighbourhood viewpoints, to the Casa Finca where a coffee-growing family spends three hours taking you from the tree to the cup. The metro and tram fares, the coffee and the traditional harvesting outfit are all in the price. Four hours fifteen, capped at nineteen travellers, and it needs a moderate level of fitness for the hill.

1. Meet at San Antonio metro station
2. Ride the Metrocable for valley-wide views
3. Board the Ayacucho tram towards Comuna 8
4. Walk into Barrio La Sierra with your guide
5. Stop at the neighbourhood viewpoints
6. Three hours at the Casa Finca coffee farm
7. Pick, process and taste the coffee
8. Back down to San Antonio metro station

From $55 per person

Private Coffee Farm Tour in Medellin: Real Authentic Experience

Door-to-door from El Poblado, Laureles, Sabaneta or Envigado, with a private car and a guide who belongs to your party alone. An hour out to a family farm at Sabaneta, then two hours picking, watching the husk come off the dried bean, and roasting and grinding a cup you drink on the spot. Coffee farm fees, the driver-guide, a local guide and a home-made traditional snack are covered. Four to five hours, lunch not included, and you agree the start time rather than taking a fixed one.

1. Private car collects you from your hotel
2. An hour out to the farm at Sabaneta
3. Pick coffee beans on the plantation
4. De-pulping, fermenting and drying explained
5. Watch the husk come off the dried bean
6. Roasting and grinding, then taste the cup
7. Home-made traditional snack at the farm
8. Private car back to your accommodation

From $104 per person

Medellin: Coffee Tour with Transport, Snacks and Tastings

Dress as an arriero and spend three and a half guided hours on a family farm at San Sebastian de Palmitas, forty-five minutes west of the city. A mucilage frappe on arrival, tea brewed from coffee husks, plantain with panela and cheese, and a tasting that pours a honey-process and a cherry-process coffee side by side. Round-trip transport, a hearty paisa lunch, a picker's certificate and an 80-gram bag of the farm's honey lot come with it. Six hours, guided in English or Spanish, and the poncho you wear is yours to keep.

From $80 per person

Coffee tour in Medellín with tastings and transportation

Collected between 8:40 and 9am and driven forty-five minutes west to a family farm in San Sebastian de Palmitas. Traditional attire is loaned to you at the gate, the plantations are walked with a guide, and the morning finishes on a fiambre paisa — the region's own packed lunch — with coffee tastings either side of it. Round-trip hotel transfer, the guide and a coffee souvenir are all in the fare. Four hours, capped at twenty, with an optional horseback ride at extra cost.

From $75 per person

Medellín Coffee Farm Tour with Trolley and Cable Car Ride

Board the electric trolley at San Antonio, change to the cable car, and walk into Barrio La Sierra with a family who grow coffee inside the city. Four and a half hours takes you through the community, into Casa Finca de La Sierra and its small museum, out to harvest cherries and back for as much coffee as you can drink. The cable car fare, the walking tour and the museum visit are included. Bags of coffee are extra, and the ground is uneven enough that you want proper shoes.

From $65 per person

Coffee Tour In Horse Riding and Lunch In Medellin

Spend the morning on a coffee farm at San Sebastian de Palmitas and the afternoon on horseback above it. The guided part covers the origin of coffee and how it is harvested, roasted and prepared, with a tasting and a snack, before the horses take you up to a viewpoint over the countryside. Hotel pickup, a professional guide, lunch at Fiambre, a poncho and an arriero diploma are all in the fare. Six to seven hours from a nine o'clock start, and the horses suit riders of any level.

From $98 per person

Coffee Tour in Medellin, Transportation, Snack and Lunch.

Head out to San Sebastian de Palmitas and live a working day in the Colombian countryside. You are dressed in the clothes of a coffee worker, walked through planting, harvesting, roasting and grinding, and given a run of tastings and local snacks before a full lunch at Fiambre. Round-trip hotel transport, a professional guide, travel insurance and an arriero diploma are covered. Five to six hours from a nine o'clock pickup, with an optional horseback ride and steep, sometimes slippery ground underfoot.

From $74 per person

Medellin: Coffee Tour with Hotel Transfers and Meals

Picked up in El Poblado or Laureles-Estadio and taken west for a welcome aperitif and the full seed-to-cup round. You dress in a poncho, hat and basket, learn the varieties and the planting, and take part in everything from harvesting through roasting and milling. Lunch is a fiambre paisa on the balcony of the old farmhouse, followed by platano calado with quesito for dessert. Four hours with a bilingual guide, water, a snack and a souvenir included; horseback riding and tips are not.

From $81 per person

Medellin: Coffee Tour and Wellness Spa

Take the cable car up to Parque Arvi and spend three hours on a coffee farm that also runs a spa. A guide explains how the coffee is planted, grown and harvested, you taste a cup of it, and then a coffee-oil massage, a coffee steam room and a cold bath finish the afternoon. Transport from the meeting point, the massage, the steam room, the bath and a barista show are covered. Capped at seven travellers, with hotel pickup and food not included — meet your guide at the Arvi cable station.

From $103 per person

Private Jardin Trip: Colombian Coffee Tour & Tasting, Medellin

Twelve hours, three of them driving each way, to reach the coffee country around Jardin in southwest Antioquia. A private minivan leaves your hotel at seven, your bilingual guide narrates the road, and the day takes in a working coffee farm, the painted balconies of Jardin and a cable car up to a mountain restaurant. Unlimited coffee tasting, lunch and hotel pickup and drop-off are all included. It is wheelchair accessible, and it is the only long-haul day here.

From $299 per person

Medellin: Coffee Farm and Barista Workshop Experience Tour

Ninety minutes at Don Leandro, the shortest coffee day here and the easiest to fit around something else. A chiva bus collects you at the entrance to Arvi metro station and carries you the last unpaved stretch to a farm high above Santa Elena, where growers take you from bean to cup and pour a premium tasting. Round-trip transport from Parque Arvi and a Don Leandro certificate are included in the fare. Groups cap at ten travellers, wheelchair access is stated, and it pairs easily with an afternoon in the reserve.

From $57 per person

EXPERIENCES COLOMBIA (coffee tour)

A private car, a driver-guide and an unhurried four to five hours in the Antioquia coffee country northwest of the city. The day opens on a first-class cup at the tunnel road, then three hours with a grower who takes you through cultivation, packing and professional tasting on his own farm. Hotel pickup and drop-off, lunch, coffee and an insurance policy are included in the fare. Only your group travels, the start is at nine, and the guide's gratuity is left to you.

From $198 per person

Coffee and Flavors of Antioquia Sightseeing Tour ☕ (Real Farm Experience)

Travel forty-five minutes west into the mountains of Ebejico for a day built around five stations rather than one. Coffee comes first, with a talk, a plantation visit and a professional tasting, then plantain with hogao, mango, citrus and sugarcane pressed into guarapo in front of you. A typical Antioquia lunch, round-trip transport from five different meeting points and a muleteer poncho to keep are all in the price. Six hours, guided in English or Spanish, with the traditional hat the one thing not included.

From $88 per person

Coffee sightseeing tour in Medellín. Lunch included.

Meet at the La Central shopping centre in Buenos Aires at half past nine and drive twenty minutes to a farm the same family has worked for over two hundred years. The whole process is covered — planting, harvesting, threshing, roasting and grinding — and then you sit down to a Colombian lunch cooked in the house, with vegetarian and vegan versions on request. Five of the farm's own production lines are poured for the tasting. Four hours, capped at eight travellers, and the walk in is five minutes downhill.

From $62 per person

Medellín: Coffee and Fruit Plantation Sightseeing Tour with Paisa Food

Six stations on a working farm in Ebejico, only one of which is coffee. After the coffee talk, the plantation walk and the professional tasting, you move on to plantain, mango, citrus and sugarcane, with an aguardiente toast at the mango stop. Pick-up anywhere in Medellin, semi-private transport, an Antioquia cold-cut lunch with guarapo and a poncho to take home are all in the price. Nine until three, and the day runs in Spanish with English translation not guaranteed.

From $82 per person

Coffee Express Tour Medellin

Six hours at a farm in the hills above Copacabana, certified organic and fair trade. Five of those hours are spent on the plantation itself, walking the rows and following the process end to end, with an hour afterwards in a specialist coffee shop trying other preparations. Private transport in an air-conditioned vehicle and coffee throughout are covered; drinks and transport to other attractions are not. The fare is quoted per group rather than per person, so read that line before you book.

From $220 per group

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