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Coffee Tour: Urban Seed to Cup Experience
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54 Ratings
Medellín
Discover Medellin’s coffee culture with a cable car ride, panoramic city views, and an immersive coffee farm tour. Learn, taste, and explore!
Discover Medellin’s coffee culture with a cable car ride, panoramic city views, and an immersive coffee farm tour. Learn, taste, and explore!
Duration:
4 hours, 15 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Medellin Metrocable - The journey begins with a cable car ride to a coffee farm, offering a breathtaking panoramic view of Medellin.
- Tranvia de Ayacucho - Board the Ayacucho tram to reach Commune 8, where a guide will share the rich history of the area along the tram route.
- La Sierra - Explore the La Sierra neighborhood in Commune 8…
- Medellin Metrocable - The journey begins with a cable car ride to a coffee farm, offering a breathtaking panoramic view of Medellin.
- Tranvia de Ayacucho - Board the Ayacucho tram to reach Commune 8, where a guide will share the rich history of the area along the tram route.
- La Sierra - Explore the La Sierra neighborhood in Commune 8 with a guided walk that highlights the area’s history and transformation. Enjoy stunning views of Medellin from the central eastern part and admire the murals and their stories.
- Urban Coffee Tour in Barrio La Sierra - Visit Casa Finca in Barrio La Sierra, where a welcoming coffee-growing family awaits. Enjoy your first cup of coffee as they share their life story and journey into coffee cultivation. Dress in traditional regional attire to visit the coffee plantations, where you’ll learn hands-on about planting, harvesting, fermenting, drying, and roasting coffee.
What's Included
- Tea and coffee
- Typical costume for harvesting coffee fruits
- Tea and coffee
- Typical costume for harvesting coffee fruits
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Gratuities
Additional Information
This tour is hosted at a family café situated in an urban area close to the city center, offering a unique experience of processing coffee from seed to cup. Participants will enjoy plenty of coffee while learning about the entire transformation process.
The tour begins at San Antonio Metro Station, where attendees will take a 20-minute tram ride to…
This tour is hosted at a family café situated in an urban area close to the city center, offering a unique experience of processing coffee from seed to cup. Participants will enjoy plenty of coffee while learning about the entire transformation process.
The tour begins at San Antonio Metro Station, where attendees will take a 20-minute tram ride to Estacion Oriente. From there, a 15-minute cable car journey provides a panoramic view of the city, leading to Barrio La Sierra in commune 8. A 20-minute walk, including stair climbing, is required to reach the farm, located in a vibrant area. Here, the history of transformation and the culture of the community will be shared. Upon arrival at the home, the coffee family will warmly welcome guests, sharing their life story and demonstrating all the processes involved in coffee production.
Location
Estacion metro san Antonio
Carrera 51
From your accommodation you can board a taxi, uber or metro to get to the meeting point
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Arturo_r
Apr 25, 2026
Best tour in Medellin!... - Best tour in Medellin! Our guide Annie was incredibly welcoming and knowledgeable! The coffee made by Rosa is some of the best I've had. I would highly recommend visiting their coffee farm in comuna 8.
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Sara_g
Apr 22, 2026
Definitely book! - An amazing trip from start to finish! The directions to the meeting point were clear. We met Melisa who was a fantastic guide! Melisa took us and the rest of the tour through the Medellin public transportation system to get to the coffee farm. During the trip we learned more about the history of the city and how things came to be. We then hiked a bit ways to get to the coffee farm so be ready with good shoes! Once we arrived we were greeted by the lead of the tour who explained to us about the process of coffee, how it’s processed, roasted etc and we learned how to pick some beans on the farm itself! Melisa was so delightful and able to translate everything in both English and Spanish. We met some great people on the tour as well. I would highly recommend making this a part of your Medellín experience!
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Claudiasy5927ao
Apr 11, 2026
Coffee in the city! - What a wonderful experience! You get to check off a lot boxes doing this tour! Metro, streetcar and cable cars. Coffee tasting and picking was informative and fun! Our guide was fully bilingual which isn’t common and so appreciated! Great experience
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Trip43221117218
Mar 31, 2026
Great experience in Medellin! - I’ve been visiting Medellin for over 20 years—my wife’s family lives here—and this is one of the best experiences I’ve had. You get to see a rarely seen part of the city, taking the tram and then metro cables up to the La Sierra neighborhood, and there’s a fair bit of steep uphill walking. Then you get this great experience of first sitting and having a cup of local coffee, then walking a short distance to a working coffee field and getting to pick and sample beans, then back to the cafe for a more thorough demonstration of coffee processing, using the very beans we picked. You end up with another fresh cup of coffee and a sweet treat while enjoying the magnificent view.
I have visited the coffee farm my wife’s family owned for decades, and I learned more in this one afternoon. Great experience for our kids.
Our guide, Daniela, was a gem. Very friendly and well informed, could explain everything in English or Spanish. The coffee demo by Rosa and her family was also great.
Aside from the uphill walking, you need to be careful (as Daniela warned us) to look out for cars, busses, & motos while walking on some narrow twisty roads. If you can handle that, don’t miss this tour.
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Abiosei
Mar 31, 2026
Nice coffee farm tour - Good experience seeing a different part of the city (after riding the tram and cable car), visiting a coffee farm and learning about the coffee making process.
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Karen_r
Mar 30, 2026
Coffee Tour - Camilo was a wonderful tour guide. He knew most of the people in the neighborhood and stopped to talk to the children to help with their English. The coffee picking and learning about the process was very interesting. It was a special experience.
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Christopher_c
Mar 23, 2026
Great tour! - Melisa was an excellent tour guide and very insightful with the stories and history of La Sierra area. The best coffee we tasted in our week here in Medellin. Highly recommend to do this tour.
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Adventure05359125780
Mar 2, 2026
Highly recommend! - Very well organized. The people were welcoming and nice. We loved the little stories that our guide Melisa told us along the way. The coffee farm was beautiful and a lot bigger than we expected. We recommend bringing a lot of water as the hike has a lot of stairs and the hill is quite steep. The farm owner explained every steps very clearly and we were able to taste their coffee a few times which was great. Overall very good experience! We highly recommend!
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Igor_s
Feb 24, 2026
Group of 6 - This tour is just excellent. You experience the whole process of picking up the coffee beans from the tree to the final product, rosted coffee.
Rosa was great in explaining the whole proces and our guide Julian was super nice and helpfull. He even helped us to buy tickets for metro rail since the machines were not working.
One warning, you will get dirty when going into the coffee field to pickup the beans.
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Caldetico
Feb 21, 2026
Fully recommended! - An unforgettable experience, the train and cable car tour covered. The visit to the place, the climb 300 steps no more, and the fun coffee catch. The explanation and tasting very complete. This is a craft tour, prepared by the family, blessings to all!
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