Santa Marta Chocolate Tours: Our Top 4

1.Santa Marta: Minca Coffee, Cocoa, & Waterfall Full-Day Trip

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 102 reviews · from $78Our pick

Spend nine hours in Minca with a bilingual guide such as Tony, Gustavo, or Sadam. Hike through the Sierra Nevada, visit a coffee plantation, swim in river pools, eat lunch with mountain views, and make your own chocolate bar.

“Our Santa Marta: Minca Coffee, Cocoa, & Waterfall Full-Day Trip was exceptional. Tony, our guide, is an exceptionally knowledgeable environmentalist, wildlife biologist and botanist. He is wicked smart and super insightful. The way he conducts his tour is is really quite smart. He speaks in short phrases, first in Spanish and then English, at length. The whole experience was very interactive. To be honest, I didn't really want to go, but my partner did, so....That said, this was the best thing we did in our time in Colombia. It as Excellent! Thanks Tony!!! Darren & Nicole”

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2.Cacao Experience Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 66 reviews · 4h 30m · from $46Best value

Meet Andrés Boh at Minca’s church for a five-hour cacao and jungle outing. Walk through Tayrona indigenous territory, learn how cacao becomes chocolate, taste fruit and local cacao, then hike to a waterfall for swimming and a clay face mask. Small groups are limited to 10.

“We had an amazing cacao tour with Andres! We visited a Colombian family farm where we learned about cacao production and tasted fresh cacao. The waterfalls were stunning, and thanks to Andres’s flexibility, we were able to extend the tour to visit an animal refuge and more beautiful waterfalls. It was a fantastic experience and we truly appreciated Andre’s’ patience, expertise and kindness! Highly recommend this tour!!”

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3.Full-Day Coffee and Cocoa Tour from Santa Marta

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 61 reviews · from $89

Travel from Santa Marta to Minca with a local English or Spanish-speaking guide. Walk through mountain streams and waterfalls, swim in a natural pool, learn how coffee and cocoa are produced, taste both, and enjoy lunch in a bamboo house. Guide Sadan has earned special praise.

“It was a great trip! We hiked thru jungles, took a break and swam near the beautiful waterfall, then we went to the coffee farm, saw how the coffee was made tasted a delicious coffee and coffee liquor, we also saw toucans there, it was beautiful! Then we hiked a bit more thru the jungles to a restaurant where we had the delicious meal with live music. After we learned about chocolate and made our own chocolates! The whole trip was really fun and good value for money! Definitely recommend to take this tour, you’ll not regret it!”

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4.Cacao and Coffee Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 24 reviews · 4h 30m · from $46

Meet at Minca’s church for a 270-minute guided walk to a coffee and cacao farm founded in 1960. You’ll taste three coffee types and three cacao types, try hot chocolate, enjoy a cacao skin exfoliation, and possibly spot toucans or oropendulas. Guides speak English and Spanish.

“Albert hat uns zuerst sicher zum Wasserfall geführt! Anschliessend durften wir auf einer Ökologischen kleine Farm mehr über den Anbau von Kaffe und Schokolade erfahren! Albert war sehr Fachkundig und hat uns alles bestens erklärt. Eine Tolle Tour”

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