Chocolate Experience and Workshop Private Tour

Visit a community chocolate project and make your own chocolate. This daytrip takes you to San Francisco, with its pristine rivers and subtropical climate is perfect for growing cacao.
What could be better than making your own chocolate!
Visit a community chocolate project and learn everything about cacao plantation and make your own chocolate. The artisanal chocolate production is co-ordinated by local women and combines conservation of endemic tropical forests and sustainable agriculture.
While coffee is considered to be the most typical Colombian product, it is in fact relatively new in Latin America. Cacao is an even more traditional agricultural product of Colombia. Even the pre-Colombian indigenous tribes used cacao seeds as currency to make trade with other tribes, and chocolate was considered to be divine. Most Colombians still prefer a hot chocolate in the morning instead of coffee.

This innovative daytrip takes you deep into the Eastern Highlands of Antioquia. The idyllic village of San Francisco with its pristine rivers and sub-tropical climate, is perfect for growing cacao. Visit a community run cacao project, sponsored by the United Nations to support the local farmers to leave illegal coca crops. The artisanal chocolate production is coordinated by local women and combines the conservation of endemic tropical forests and sustainable agriculture. Meet local farmers and learn everything about cacao plantation while getting an understanding of the conflict`s history and the lives of the local communities and small-scale farmers during the long years of civil war and support their new perspectives and support directly local farmer families

To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.

This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.