Our Chocolate Tour in Medellin is definitely a unique farming experience.

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Wonderful and Unique Experience

This is not your typical tour. From the moment that Andrés Picked us up to the end of the tour,

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Xavier S from San Juan, Puerto Rico

An authentic cacao experience

If you want to get out of the city and experience how cacao is actually grown and produced, I would

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Martsva from Trondheim, Norway

A fun and interactive cacao experience

Being in Colombia a few times already, we knew it was time to venture out past the city and see

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Eric Rodriguez

Super authentic cacao farm visit with great guide!

We went to Oscar’s small family run farm just outside of Medellin with Andres and lóved it! It truely is

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RiannNL from Amsterdam, The Netherlands

You will never go back to regular chocolate again

What an incredible tour, from the minute Andres picked us up and shared his knowledge about coffee then chocolate we

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Synthiab from Bordeaux, France

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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