Chocolate Tour in Medellin: A Great Farm Experience
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Our Chocolate Tour in Medellin is definitely a unique farming experience.
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| Where do you pick us up? | At your place anywhere in El Poblado and Laureles |
| What time do you pick us up? | Any time from these options: |
How long does it last? | 6 to 6.5 hours from pick up to drop off |
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| What does it include? | - Pick-up and drop-off at your hotel in Medellin - English speaking knowledgeable guide - Cacao farm entry fees - Delicious snack at the farm |
Some of our guests’ reviews
Wonderful and Unique Experience
Next, we go up to Oscar’s house Where we learned the entire process of fermenting, toasting, peeling, and grinding the cacao into chocolate. This tour also gives you an opportunity to participate in the process yourself. The final phase of taking the ground chocolate and putting it into molds for the final product is also explained and you are allowed to participate in the process. Finally you get to taste the different types of chocolate produced in the farm and have a chance, if you wish, to buy some to take home. At the end, Oscar‘s wife served us a cup of hot chocolate from their homemade chocolate which was very delicious.
If you are looking for an off the beaten path tour, seeing nature, and immersing yourself with Local culture in Columbia, this tour is for you. it was such a beautiful experience that I will be bringing my family next year to take part in this tour. This is a must not miss personal tour from Medellin, Colombia.
A fun and interactive cacao experience
Andres, our tour guide was honest at the very beginning and said he loved to do tours “off the beaten path” that is to say we were going to be able to get fully immersed in the understanding of how cacao is grown and harvested to support a local farmer and his family. Any question we had was fully answered by him and he made the trip fun and enjoyable.
As much as I would like to give away other details as to what you can expect on this trip, I’ll leave it up to you to just book it and see for your own how enjoyable it is as my words here wouldn’t do it justice! I would definitely recommend this tour for anyone, particularly those who love chocolate and want to value the work and time it takes to make it.
An authentic cacao experience
Super authentic cacao farm visit with great guide!
We visited with two kids (almost 2yrs old and 4yrs old) and it went great. Because of traveling with kids we preferred a private tour which was a great choice. It offers the possibility to be more flexible and gives them more space to just play around. Our oldest one really liked being outside on the farm, picking fruits and making cacao from the beans. Super educational and fun for him as well.
Andres, thanks again for showing us this great place and giving us more insight into life in Medellin.
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You will never go back to regular chocolate again
If you like supporting small local farmers I would absolutely highly recommend this tour.
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Like our top-ranked coffee tour, the Medellín Day Trips Chocolate Tour in Medellin is an authentic and personal experience, where you'll get a chance to observe all the steps required to produce high-quality artisanal chocolate on a traditional Colombian family farm.
Just read the reviews of this tour on Tripadvisor. They are all amazing!!
Well, MedellinDayTrips have set up this tour under the same principles and a similar lay out that gives you a complete understanding of the process of chocolate, but especially artisanal process.
You'll have the opportunity to connect with nature and pick cacao fruits straight from the tree, as well as support the local farmers who make their living producing cacao.
Chocolate Tour in Medellin Itinerary:
The tour starts on your doorstep--we'll pick you up in our comfortable, private vehicle from wherever you are staying in Medellín.
Then the journey to the farm starts: the driving time is 1 hour and 20 minutes on a safe, well-maintained road through beautiful, Andean mountainscapes.
Upon arriving to the cacao farm, you'll receive a warm welcome in the form of the farmers' big smiles and a fresh organic mandarin juice.
Introduction to the cacao production process:
For the first part of the Chocolate Tour in Medellin farm experience, you will gain insight to the world of chocolate, discussing subjects big and small, including:
- The history of chocolate and its production worldwide
- How to maintain a healthy plantation
- Natural enemies of the cacao fruits and how to control them
After this complete introduction, you'll almost have enough knowledge to start your own cacao farm!
For the next part of the tour, you'll learn about the complete process for making artisanal chocolate, while touring the plantation grounds.
First Step in our Chocolate Tour in Medellin: Picking cacao in the plantation
As you walk through the plantation you'll see cacao plants in their natural form, as well as other natural local products like mandarin trees, coffee plants, plantain trees and more.
It's important to mention that this is a small farm with around 250 cacao trees and a small but very good quality production.
You'll even get to use tools to pick the cacao from the trees.
But this Chocolate Tour in Medellin still has more to offer.
Second Step: Fermenting and Drying the cacao seeds
After picking ripe cacao fruits, we'll head back to the farm for the next step: fermenting.
To ferment the cacao, we need to cut the fruit and extract the seeds. You'll also get a chance to try the raw chocolate fruit which is deliciously sweet.
Once we've opened the fruit, we pour the seeds into wooden containers to ferment for six days.
After fermenting, the cacao then needs to be dried.
To dry the fermented cacao, we either use a green house that we call Marquesina or by just spreading them out on the ground to dry in the sun.
Depending on the weather, the cacao will dry for 5-10 days.
After drying, the cacao is then ready to be roasted.
Third Step in our Chocolate Tour in Medellin: Roasting and grinding.
On our farm, we roast the chocolate in a very artisanal way, using a simple pot on a wood fire, that, after stirring it for about 30 minutes, gives it an amazing subtle woody flavor.
After roasting the cacao beans, we remove the husk and manually separate them.
Once the beans are husk-free they are ready to be ground and melted.
At this point, we can add in some natural seeds to give the chocolate different premium flavors.
As a result of the friction from the artisanal grinder, the cacao beans melt, leaving us with our final product.
We use superb quality cacao to produce amazing fresh chocolate that can be made into hot chocolate or chocolate bars.
Fourth Step: Creating our own chocolate
The next process is super fun, you are going to mix your freshly ground chocolate with any of the ingredients we have available for you like powder milk, vanilla essence, green pepper, salt, sugar, ginger, lemon skin and more.
After making your own invention then we mold them and put them in the fridge and in the meantime we have a delicious and fresh cheese bread with hot chocolate (from the farm) with an spectacular view.
After eating this delicious cheese-bread and hot chocolate we are ready to receive our own-made chocolate that will be already solid and buy some in case you want.
Fair trade: Take some chocolate with you
Want to take some chocolate home as a gift? Don't worry, you won't have any problems with customs taking your fair trade handmade chocolate home with you.
We've already given you a detailed description of our Chocolate Tour in Medellin, but there's more still to learn, and photos don't do the experience justice. You'll see for yourself when you join us up in the fresh, clean air of the Andes mountains exploring the process from seed to cup with local farmers.
Ready for the chocolate experience of a lifetime? Just fill out the booking form and take the Chocolate Tour in Medellin with us.
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Please do not forget we give you a multi-trip discount as following:
| Trips you make with us | Discount you get |
| 2nd trip | 5% |
| 3 or more trips | 10% |
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