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Discover mountain villages and hillside farms on a full-day tour to Quindio and Pijao from Pereira, and immerse yourself in Colombia’s remarkable landscape and coffee culture. Learn why Cordoba’s coffee is among the best in the world, and see how the beans go from field to cup. Navigate rolling foothills on your way to Pijao, then slow down to the pace of traditional life: stroll picturesque streets, have lunch in a local house and take in the views over a cup of local coffee.

The Ramón y Elena Coffee Route is a model of entrepreneurship with social impact. In addition to entertainment, visitors will find how economic benefit can be integrated with nature conservation and social impact. In Ramón and Elena we collect rainwater and use it for the benefit of coffee, we recognize a fair payment to the collectors and we have the Recolecta Amor program, for the education of the children of the collectors. On our route you will find a large number of varieties of fruit trees that provide shade to coffee and help conserve the ecosystem.

Cooking stories is an encounter with memory and territory. It is an experience with the Coffee Axis through its smells, tastes, textures and narrations. In it they try, feel and prepare some of the foods that are served today in the tables of this mountainous land. At the same time, you can hear stories from distant and nearby times that were told in books or transmitted by grandparents. It is a journey through the identity of men and women who from pre-Columbian times inhabited this territory, going through the time of the conquest and arriving at the coffee farm.

Quindio's Botanical garden and Butterfly's house. Place to enjoy the mountain rainforest, native plant collections (Palms, Heliconias, Tree ferns, Orchids, Carnivore plants), Birds observatory, Observation Towel, Different Museums (Palms, Geological, Tunnel museum, Insects, Butterflies), Butterfly's house and Hummingbirds feeders.