Places that change your life
By: César Augusto Ángel Valencia
Traveling to the coffee region of Colombia is to have the opportunity to find nature and its wildlife, and the culture of the place that is the origin of the best soft coffee in the world. Also, it is a special place to share with the local community, in charming villages, in coffee farms or in natural parks. This is a place to live experiences, which bring happiness to life after a joyful vacation. In Nature Trips Colombia, we have accompanied tourists during their vacations, who come from places full of concrete, cars, heavy traffic and the stressful noise of the city, who marvel at the changing green of the mountains, the fertile valleys, and the cloud forests, of the Coffee Cultural Landscape. We watch as tourists make video calls from their hotel in the rural area, using their IPad or phone, telling their family and friends “you have to see this!” And then, they turn the camera of the mobile device, to show their interlocutors the landscape they observe, while narrating memories about the experiences they have lived during the trip. It is exciting when you know the stories that are lived on each trip, about walking in the middle of coffee plantations, the singing of birds on the trails, the pleasant taste of the best Colombian soft coffee, the delicious cuisine, the horse ride Previous day, and always, refer to the kindness of the people of this region.
The trips organized by Nature Trips Colombia, are made to places where we build significant moments and memories, those that are unique and special for those who live vacations in this region, that somehow change, for good, the lives of people. During the tours, our team of guides, discover that each tour we make, leaves an indelible mark on the memory of the visitor, especially when entering into direct contact with authentic experiences.
This is a destination for families, for people who enjoy traveling alone, for couples in love, for friends who share a trip and want to discover the essence of the region. Here, the combination of nature and culture are part of a memorable experience. The Coffee Cultural Landscape is so diverse and unique that, during the same trip, you can spend a night at more than 4,000 meters above sea level, where the vegetation of the moor dominates the horizon, with nights full of stars shining on the firmament, observing how the milky way is discovered in all its magnificence, or traveling to a natural park, to photograph some of the endemic birds that can be observed in this area of the country. This is the destination to walk in the middle of the forest and discover a troop of red howler monkeys, who observe it from the top of a tree. Easily, a traveler can go from 1,000 meters above sea level, with a warm temperature, to coffee plantations, near small villages of beautiful architecture, full of shapes and colors that contrast in the middle of the green mountains , or ascend walking along paths to cloud forests, where wax palm grows, the highest in the world. In a few hours, you can ascend the mountain in 4×4 vehicles, to reach the snowy park, where there are still perpetual snow glaciers, in the cold highlands of the central Andes. Here it is very easy to change landscapes and temperatures, as if traveling through different latitudes of the planet.
This is the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia, a place of discovery, of self-realization, to enjoy nature and culture, in a destination, included since 2011 in the UNESCO world heritage list. This is a destination for you.
