Tour OverviewMeet the coffee axis, "El Eje Cafetero", as featured in the NY Times Mantaraya provides the best adventures and travel services.
Visit the "coffee crossroads", "El Eje Cafetero", recognized as the source for some of the worlds best coffee. A journey back to a more tranquil and traditional Colombia, where most people lived on farms and coffee was king.
The
central experience in the coffee country tour will be savoring that
tranquility while staying at the haciendas, old and creaky farmhouses,
virtually all of them painted in bright colors, their porches
overflowing with orchids and ferns. While enjoying tours through the
rivers Barragan and La Vieja, with rapids class 2 and labyrinths of
islands. As well enjoy a novelty of pulleys and canopies over
platforms, on top of fruit crops, the cartoonish guaduales, giant
bursts of bamboo topped by delicate foliage and lakes that tempt the
most daring ones. There will be horseback ridings at sunset through
working farms that offer tours of the coffee fields and the
surprisingly old-fashioned steps taken to turn a bright red bean into a
valuable commodity through the so-called Haciendas del Café.
The
Eje Cafetero (the "coffee crossroads"), is made up of three diminutive
states — Quindío, Risaralda and Caldas — about 100 miles west of
Bogotá. This tour will be in the smallest and most charming, Quindío, a
state where there are 12 tones of green, wherever you look and where
Willy Jeeps carry loads of bananas and heavy sacks of coffee to market
on meandering country roads.
Expeditions
trough the rivers Barragan and La Vieja, with rapids class 2 and
labyrinths of islands. There are a novelty of pulleys and canopies over
platforms on average at 10 meters high, on top of fruit crops and
artificial lakes that tempt the most daring ones. There will be
horseback ridings at sunset that go from sugar and coffee plantations
through the stream of a river and all the way through the slope of the
mountain.
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