The 5 Best Pereira Tours

1.Coffee Tour at the Finca del Café

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 213 reviews · 3 hours (approx.) · from $40Our pick

At Finca del Café near Santa Rosa de Cabal, you’ll follow coffee from seed to cup with a local guide. Expect a three-hour walk through a working plantation, explanations of cultivation, harvesting, processing, and roasting, plus two origin-coffee tastings and a cold coffee drink. Guides such as Daniel and Jose have been praised for adding useful regional stories.

“It is a wonderful tour, full of knowledge, a fantastic experience. As for the clothes: you walk a lot, so it is good advice to wear non-slip shoes and jeans. Prepare to enjoy and get carried away. By far the best tour we've ever takenAuto-translated”

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2.Salento, Cocora and Filandia Private Tour from Pereira or Armenia

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 90 reviews · 6 to 8 hours (approx.) · from $160

Spend 6 to 8 hours exploring Colombia’s coffee region by private vehicle. Walk among Cocora’s towering wax palms, stroll Salento’s colonial streets, and see the coffee country from Filandia’s illuminated hill viewpoint. Guides may include Soledad, Juan, Luisa, or Eduardo, with timing adjusted to your interests.

“Sole was truly a special tour guide. She had clearly studied the region and took pains to curate an incredible tour for us. From the Colombian stories she shared while we hiked around the Cocora Valley to the amazing photographs she helped us take to the shops and restaurants she hand picked to teach us more about the Salento culture, Sole is a gifted tour guide. I honestly wish I could hire her to be my personal guide everywhere I travel. Beyond this, the three stops on this tour are beautiful and unique and I am so glad we booked this tour.”

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3.Full-Day Private Coffee Tour in Cocora Valley and Salento

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 60 reviews · 8 hours (approx.) · from $218

Spend about eight hours with a private guide and driver exploring Cocora Valley, a family coffee farm, Salento, and Alto de la Cruz. Expect a gentle interpretive walk, coffee picking and roasting, local lunch, Colombian coffee, and room for personal interests. Guides such as Jhon, Gustavo, Juan, and Ivan have been praised for their nature and cultural knowledge.

“Juan was a superb, friendly guide who recounted so muc. Made the stops and the route so much more interesting!”

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4.Cocora Valley: Salento & Private Horseback Riding Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 56 reviews · 6 - 8 hours · from $171

Spend 6 to 8 hours with an English or Spanish-speaking guide exploring Salento and Cocora Valley. Ride for about an hour through coffee country, stop at palm-filled viewpoints, walk in the valley, and travel by traditional Willys jeep. Pickup is available from Armenia, Salento, Pereira, or Filandia.

“This trip was very well organized, and our guide Mauricio was kind, knowledgeable and accommodating. The horseriding was fun, and we found Diego, the horse guide, to be genuine in caring about his horses. We had a great day, and we highly recommend this tour!”

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5.Antioquia’s Villages: El Retiro, La Ceja, and More

★★★★★★★★★★4.1 · 4 reviews · 11 hours · from $65

Spend 11 hours exploring Antioquia’s smaller towns by shared vehicle. Visit El Retiro’s wood shops, Salto del Tequendamita, flower-filled La Ceja, dessert-focused San Antonio de Pereira, and El Carmen de Viboral’s painted ceramics. The tour runs Sundays, includes lunch and Spanish guiding, and returns to Medellín around 6 p.m.

“The first part of the your including El Retiro, Salto de Tequendamita we’re worth visiting. La Ceja not much to see and lunch in El Portal was average. The tour in the town of Carmen del Viboral was not interesting at all. The town is not pretty. The main attraction was visiting 3 talleres of painted porcelana. Things got really worth at the last stop for “dessert” - Rionegro. So, unnecessary and led to a 2 1/2 hour long drive back to Medellín stuck in traffic. The transportation was below average. My chair reclining was broken. I was told not to seat in the first 4 seats and as it…”

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