Know Quindío, Colombia's Green Heart

Realize a complete trip for the Quindío and the departments of the so called (Eje cafetero) coffee Axis, region of Colombia that possesses dazzling landscapes, attractive cities and that it supports live through the culture of his inhabitants, the "paisas". Discover his impressive diversity of fauna and flora, favored by the existence of the " thermal floors "; the colouring architecture "paisa", that came with the colonizadores antioqueños from from the north and that remains intact in traditional peoples like Filandia and Salento; the numerous cultures of coffee, banana and sugar in the estates, agricultural properties that form a part of the inheritance of the cultural past antioqueño and enjoyment of the sincere warmth of his inhabitants, who will announce his history, his customs and his rich and varied gastronomy.

The tour has a duration of 11 days and includes the daily movements on board of the willys, way of typical transport in the whole coffee region. Also it includes the receipt of the visitors, show restraint daily and the accomodations.

The tours to realizing are the following ones:

· Tour in rafts of guadua, a species of giant bamboo, to the style rafting for the river La Vieja (The Old woman), the only experience in which the exhuberante will know natural vegetation of one of the principal courses of water of the Quindío,

· Walk to the thermal waters of Santa Rosa.

· Visits to the Parque de los Nevados (Park of the Snow-capped mountains), region where there are located the principal volcanoes of the region (Quindío Ruiz, Holy Isabel, Risaralda and Tolima) by his impressive covered with snow cones, which form principal heights of the Central Mountain chain,, Walk to the thermal waters of Santa Rosa.

· Visits to the Valle del Cocora, beautiful natural monument located in the heights, where there grows the humid forest of mountain and the beautiful palm of wax, tree national emblem of Colombia,

· Visits to the Parque del Café (Park of the Coffee), where it will be able to know the diverse varieties of coffee and his process of production stepwise, and to the National Agricultural Park, Panaca,

· Crossed by a coffee estate and a trapiche, establishment where the sugar cane is processed to make the "panela", the endulzante most used in Colombia.

· Crossed by the Route of the Coffee: he visits the different peoples that form the coffee Axis, where there will be able to know his typical crafts, his varied ones shown restraint, his people, night life and other attractions, as the culture Quimbaya, whose archaeological objects are exposed in the Museum Quimbaya, located in the city of Armenia;

· Treks I am used trekking for the forests, rivers and waterfalls of the region.

The cost of this tour is US$3.000. If you want further information, please write mail to osvaldomaraboli@gmail.com