A Curated Coffee Farm Tour in Colombia’s Coffee Region: How to Choose Yours
Every traveler who lands in Colombia’s coffee region is told the same thing: you must do a coffee farm tour. It is good advice and incomplete advice. A coffee farm tour can be a forty-person walk behind a megaphone, or it can be a slow morning with someone who...
Best Time to Visit Colombia’s Coffee Region: A Month-by-Month Guide to Quindío
Ask ten travelers about the best time to visit Colombia’s coffee region and you will get ten answers. The honest one is that Quindío is green, mild and welcoming all year. Because it sits close to the equator, its seasons are not hot and cold. They are drier and...
Cocora Valley Experience: Cloud Forest, Wax Palms & Horseback in Quindío
Green terraces in Quindío: the landscape that frames every day in the coffee region. There are landscapes you photograph and landscapes you walk into. The Cocora Valley experience belongs to the second kind. Above the town of Salento, in the heart of Quindío, the...
Things to Do in Salento & Filandia, Colombia: A Curated Guide
If you are searching for the best things to do in Salento Colombia, you will find long lists that run from the main street to the valley and back. This guide is different. It is a curated way to read two neighbouring towns, Salento and Filandia, and the green country...