Envigado

Receive a morning pickup from your Medellin hotel. As you drive, your coffee expert guide will share details about Colombia’s long history with coffee production and consumption. We'll head into the mountain arriving at the coffee villa, enjoy imposing mountains and lush landscape, with an occasional glimpse of a cute sloth or adorable ant eater. We'll drive to a secluded location in Envigado town and at the coffee villa, you will be exposed to an in depth and detailed coffee tour by our professor, covering everything from the seed to the cup. At the end you'll enjoying a fresh batch. You will get to pick your own coffee beans and learn hands on. Arrive at a coffee plantation located close to the city and begin your exploration of one of Colombia’s most famous crops. You’ll get a look at the coffee cultivation and production process surrounding by the plantations beautiful scenery of exotic flowers and lush greenery. At the coffee villa, you will be exposed to an in depth and detailed coffee tour by our professor, covering everything from the seed to the cup. At the end you'll enjoying a fresh batch. You will get to pick your own coffee beans and learn hands on.

Learn about the dark times suffered by Medellín at the time of Pablo Escobar Gaviria. Gain an understanding of the difficulties, which both the city and its inhabitants strove to overcome to become an example of resilience. Discover the troubled past of the city, and the painful and bloody legacy left behind by the famed drug trafficker. Start the tour in the El Poblado neighborhood, visiting the new Parque de la Memoria, a former Monaco building which was demolished on February 22, 2019 to make way for a renewed space that aims to reconstruct the area's history through art and culture, vindicating the city of its unfortunate reputation of a place of drug trafficking. Next, head to the Barrio Pablo Escobar, a neighborhood founded by Escobar himself to offer free houses to the homeless and the poorest in the city of Medellín.  Finally, arrive to the west of the city and witness the house where he died in its dilapidated state. You can also opt to include a visit to Comuna 13, an area with the most graffiti in Medellin and the largest open-air gallery in Latin America.