Coffee and Cacao Tour from Salento

Starting your journey with an early morning pickup from your Salento hotel, you'll travel through the beautiful coffee zone landscape to discover the small town of Viterbo. The entrance to the small pueblo (town) is a beautiful tunnel of giant Saman trees, some of which are around 100 years old. To ensure you enjoy the complete experience of traveling through the "Tunnel of the Samanes" you'll be slowing down the transport, to enjoy views of the trees, entrance, and the amazing wooden sculptures that also line the entrance.
Once you've entered the town, you'll be changing your mode of transportation once again and head off up a gravel road to a beautiful Finca filled with both award-winning Coffee and Cacao trees, along with a huge variety of exotic fruits. You'll be greeted with freshly made juice and start a walking tour of this wonderful Finca learning as you go through the complete process of both the coffee and cacao. You'll journey down into a valley and up the other side, passing through the plantations of Coffee and Cacao, and into a small bamboo forest.
Continuing your journey, you'll pass through the many trees full of exotic fruits and arrive at a 100-year-old house made of Bahareque (a mix of timber, bamboo, mud, and cattle dung in the construction of the walls). By the time you arrive, the cacao beans will be close to roasted and ready for you to make some fresh chocolate. The coffee should be close to ready to pour you an amazing and fresh cup of liquid black gold when you arrive. All the information you were told during your walk of the plantations will all come together, as your guide will explain how the processes of these two products are so similar and can also be combined to create a wonderful mocha-flavored coffee bean as well. After sampling your chocolate and coffee, you'll have time to enjoy a wonderful fruit salad, made from freshly picked tropical fruits of the trees you just walked through!
Once you've finished your fruit salad it'll be back to the pueblo for a nice spot of lunch at one of the local restaurants before your last stop of the day, visiting an artisan store. Here you'll see some fine handmade jewelry, along with some unique hand-painted products ranging from decorations to ponchos, and other types of hand-painted clothing of all styles.
Duration: 9 hours