Experience the century-old artisanal way of harvesting coffee beans while visiting a real small family farm. This is a hands-on experience where you will pick, grind and roast your own beans and get to taste some of the smoothest coffee in the world! This tour guarantees red beans for picking year-round and it is hosted at a local family farm, not a large commercial coffee plantation. With over 200 recorded species, this forest reserve and adjacent shade-grown coffee plantations offer abundant birdlife that is easy to spot with the naked eye, making it a prime site for nature photography. We began this tour back in 2013 when few people even knew that coffee plants were harvested in the nearby lands of Bogotá. We are the first and oldest coffee tour in the Bogotá region. Don't miss out!
Prices change with the date; the lowest is shown.
Prices are per person when two book together; a solo traveller pays $225.
Larger groups pay less per person.
From the operator’s live schedule on Viator, checked Oct 13.
When available, we will stop by a coffee trading and purchasing shop in the town to see how the daily purchasing of coffee happens
Dive into the world of Colombian coffee by entering a real small coffee farm and experiencing life as a farmer for a day
We can wait a maximum of 15 minutes past the schedule pick-up time. Drop-off is at the same location. Late arrivals and no shows forfeit their payment.
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For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Birds & Beans Traditional Coffee Tour lasts about 8–10 hours. The itinerary has 2 stops.
Prices start at $125 per person for this Bogota experience, booked through Viator with the price shown before checkout. That is the per-person price when two book together; a solo traveller pays $225. There are 2 booking options, so the final price depends on the option you choose.
According to the operator’s current schedule, it runs every day.
Children aged 3–11 pay from $45, adults from $125.
Yes. Cancel at least 1 day before the start for a full refund. Later cancellations are non-refundable.
Yes, pickup is offered. We can wait a maximum of 15 minutes past the schedule pick-up time. Drop-off is at the same location. Late arrivals and no shows forfeit their payment. Pickup points include Hotel oasis home.
The experience is available in EN, IT, FR, ES.
It is a small-group experience with a maximum of 9 participants.
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Yes, bookings are confirmed instantly.
Travellers rate it 4.8 out of 5 across 17 reviews on Viator and Tripadvisor; it is run by Andes EcoTours.
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This was a great tour for coffee lovers. It was a great intro into traditional coffee processing. The farm is small and owner Don Carlos and his wife were so welcoming. Lunch at the farm was so good! Our guide Gabriela and driver Hector were both very engaging and I highly recommend any tour with them. Only downside is the traffic in and out of Bogota. Leave early.
We had a great time! The tour was very informational about the coffee process from planting a coffee plant to brewing a cup of coffee. The coffee was delicious and the people were even better! Hector was our driver and was very friendly and Gabriel was our guide. She was fun and very knowledgeable! I would fully recommend this tour.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us! We’re so glad you enjoyed learning each step of the coffee journey, from planting to that final cup...and that it tasted as good as it smells! We’re especially happy you connected with our team. Hector and Gabriela will be so glad to hear your kind words. As a family-run operation, welcoming guests like friends and sharing both our coffee and our people is at the heart of what we do. We truly appreciate your recommendation and are grateful you chose to spend part of your time with us on the farm. Wishing you many great cups of coffee ahead!
This is a fantastic tour! Diego was my guide, ad was very knowledgeable. The plantation is family owned and e process of making coffee start to finish was educational. The coffee was delicious! I would recommend a different spot for lunch as it wasn’t my favorite, but all in all, I had a fantastic time.
The tour was a long day mostly due to the notorious Bogota traffic. Despite the travel we had a wonderful day and the views were amazing. The guide Diego was great in explaining all aspects of coffee. The farmers Elena and Carlos were so sweet and warm, they shared their knowledge and experiences about making coffee so passionately. It was just a delight! The lunch and coffee tasting was delicious. There were so many varieties of birds and flowers it was amazing. Would highly recommend this trip!!
We did this tour with three kids ages 6, 8 and 17 and it was loved by all. The coffee farm owner and his family were so welcoming to our kids and invited us into their home for a true and unique coffee experience. Even if you think you don’t like coffee you will after this tour. Our guide was so patient with our kids and all of our questions and did a great job explaining everything to us. It was one of the highlights of our trips.
Beautiful location. Learned the process from start to finish. Picked the beans, peeled them, roasted them, “skinned” them, ground them up, made the coffee, and drank it. Then a nice lunch…everything organic and home grown. A delightful experience, and a sweet family, embracing you like one of their own. Can’t say enough good things about this tour.
The tour group was great! Both our driver and tour guide were really nice and informative during the entire tour. I will say that the coffee farm itself is very small. The drive is about 3 hours each way (the traffic is insane). For us, it took 5 hours to drive home because of the traffic and a car accident. In my opinion, its not worth spending 6 hours in a car for the 1 hour coffee tour.
Hi! Thank you for joining us. We enjoyed touring you and getting to know your family! We did have very bad traffic that day as the end of December is a busy time for holiday travels and the roads leaving the city get very congested. We typically depart for this tour around 7.00am but you requested a late departure for 9.00am. We explained the risk for heavy traffic that day and we asked you to leave as early as possible. We arrived to your hotel at 8.45am hoping to depart on time but your family only came down at 9.25am after we wrote two messages urging you to hurry because the city was getting crazy busy with cars. Unfortunately on the way back from the tour, a fatal accident on the road closed down the whole highway for over an hour and we had to detour to get around it. We regret the inconvenience this caused you and thousands of other travelers that day and it is definitely not the experience we want to offer! But road accidents do happen from time to time and they are beyond our control. We arrived to the coffee farm around 12.30pm, we did the whole coffee tour, we had lunch and then we visited a coffee purchaser in the town until 3.20pm, so we spent almost 3 hours talking, picking, making and tasting coffee. It is not true that the tour only lasted one hour but perhaps time flies when you are having a good time. Based on your review, we will no longer allow delayed departures for this tour in order to prevent delays and lessen the chance of incidents on the road. We thank you again for choosing us and we wish you the best in your future travels.
This tour was a lot of fun!! What made it stand it out from the other tours was the hands-on nature of the tour. Instead of simply watching other people perform various stages of the coffee production, you actually got to collect coffee beans, remove the shells, grind the beans, winnow them, and roast them. You got to experience what being on a coffee farm was like. Also, the tour guide was helpful and the farmers were friendly and hospitable. If you visit Bogotá, I would highly recommend this tour.
My partner and two teens and I did this tour, the kids were very reluctant about an all day coffee tour, but this turned out to be one of the highlights of our trip. We all really enjoyed it. You really get to learn first hand how coffee is made. You experience the whole things, textures, smells, tastes, picking, crushing, grinding, roasting, all of it, and it's just wonderful. We had two guides and they were very informative, knowledgeable, and just all around like-able individuals. Food was excellent also. We were provided a meal at the cafetal that was lovely, and we also stopped at a little place on the way to the cafetal where the guides made some great recommendations. Overall, wonderful experience, highly recommend.
I enjoyed climbing on the side of the hill to pick the coffee while learning about everything that can affect the taste. Every step of the process, from picking the berries to removing the skin to drying, roasting, and brewing, was done old-school. They also served an excellent homemade lunch.
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