A quick peek at the Zona Cafetera/Coffee-producing Zone

Written by Tyler Cole | 31 March 2009

Ironically I didn´t see any coffee production while there, but it was quite nice nonetheless. There are a cluster of small, beautiful villages throughout the region around the larger cities, and I settled on seeing Salento since there was supposedly a nice valley nearby (Valle de Cocorá). Salento was a little town squeezed between the mountains, and I found a quaint little hostel to camp at owned by a rolo (someone from Bogotá) for my stay. I spent a day lounging around after the overnight bus and a day to walk through the Valley of Cocorá known for its freakishly tall wax palm trees. I wasn´t too keen to see the coffee farms since I had already seen coffee production in the south on my last visit to Colombia, so I took a pass on that.