Choosing a Medellin Coffee Tour
Ninety minutes above Arví, four hours in Comuna 8, six in the countryside or twelve to Jardín. Four shapes of day, side by side.
A guide for each decision worth settling. Which shape of day to book, how to build the rest of the day around it, whether to go independently, what the bands actually cost, and which month puts a full basket in your hands. When you have decided, Medellin Coffee Tours compares every departure.
Ninety minutes above Arví, four hours in Comuna 8, six in the countryside or twelve to Jardín. Four shapes of day, side by side.
Every one of these tours ends between one and three. Two day-plans built around that, using different halves of the metro.
Two of these farms you can reach on a Cívica card alone. The rest are up veredal roads with no bus. Here is which is which, and what each costs.
Fifty-five dollars to two hundred and ninety-nine, for days that all call themselves a coffee tour. The bands are real, and they are explainable.
Two harvests and two rainy seasons that do not line up, plus ten days in August when the whole city is busy. Month by month.
If you would rather read around a single question than settle a decision, the shorter posts do that: how to visit, what happens on a farm, the facts, going with children, and half day against full day.