Santander was one of Colombia's first commercial coffee regions and it is the easiest of the lesser-known departments to visit. A guide to Mesa de los Santos, San Gil, Barichara and the…
Pijao joined the global Cittaslow network in 2014, the first town in Latin America to do so. A guide to the town, its coffee, how to get there from Armenia, and what the slow-city label…
Pereira has the Coffee Triangle's best-connected airport and the most bus routes. A guide to using it as a base — Risaralda coffee, Santa Rosa de Cabal thermal springs, and why the…
Colombia's coffee theme park in Montenegro, Quindío — passport pricing, the attractions, how to get there from Armenia, and an honest answer on whether a coffee traveller should bother.
Nariño grows coffee at altitudes almost nowhere else can sustain, on a single annual harvest. A guide to Pasto, Buesaco and the Juanambú canyon — why the coffee is exceptional and how hard…
Manizales is the highest, coolest and most underrated of the Coffee Triangle capitals. A guide to using it as a base — Caldas coffee farms, Los Nevados access, thermal springs and the…
Juan Valdez was invented by an American ad agency in the late 1950s to sell 100% Colombian coffee. The three men who played him, the mule, the café chain, and what the character did for…
Huila grows more coffee than any other Colombian department. A practical guide to Pitalito, San Agustín and Neiva — altitudes, harvest timing, how to get there and what visiting actually…
Three airports, four road corridors and a lot of bad advice. A practical comparison of every way into Colombia's Coffee Triangle from Bogotá, Medellín, Cali and the coast — and which…
Founded in Medellín in 1927, the FNC represents over half a million Colombian coffee families. What it is, how the purchase guarantee and Fondo Nacional del Café work, and what Cenicafé…
A seven-day Eje Cafetero itinerary covering all three departments — Quindío's towns, Risaralda's thermal springs, Caldas and the high páramo, with two bases and no wasted mornings.
Caldas, Quindío and Risaralda make up Colombia's Coffee Triangle. What the region actually is, which of the three cities to base in, how the towns differ, and what the UNESCO listing means…
A three-day Coffee Triangle itinerary that accounts for arrival time, mountain roads and how long things actually take — one base, one farm, one valley, and the towns in between.
Colombian coffee history from the first written record in 1730 through the Antioqueño colonisation, the 1927 federation, the 1989 price collapse and the specialty era — the events that…
Renting a car in Colombia's coffee country — which regions reward it, what the mountain roads are actually like, vehicle choice, fuel, tolls, parking and the routes worth driving.
Cauca produces around 11% of Colombia's coffee across roughly 95,000 hectares of smallholder farms. A guide to Popayán, Inzá and Timbío — harvest timing, indigenous producer associations…
Getting from Bogotá to the Eje Cafetero — Terminal Salitre, the overnight buses, fares, the La Línea crossing, and an honest comparison of when the bus is worth it and when it absolutely is…
Armenia is the smallest Coffee Triangle capital and the closest to Salento, Cocora and the Quindío coffee towns. A guide to using it as a base, the 1999 earthquake, and what the city is and…
The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta grows coffee within sight of the sea. A guide to Minca, Finca La Victoria and the region's 19th-century plantation history — plus how to get up there and…