PEREIRA CITY TOUR
A day in the pearl of the Otún visiting the main natural, cultural and architectural tourist attractions.
Live the magic of a city located in the middle of coffee plantations, the capital of the Axis, the late-night and brown city awaits you with the kindness of its inhabitants, with a warm climate and a variety of viewpoints to understand the topography and territory of the city, Pereira offers curly landscapes with hills and mountains, with abundant nature and a combination of urban and rural coffee. Find out where the famous popular saying “this way we don’t get to any Pereira” was born and learn about the history of this thriving city in a fun and interactive way, this region of the Eje Cafetero was declared by UNESCO in 2011 as World Heritage of Humanity, a natural, tourist and cultural treasure that we recommend you to visit.
Services included:
- 360° Cancels Viewpoint
- Refreshments
- Entrance to the Megacable
- Panoramic view from the viewpoint of Camelias vriante el Pollo
- Tambo el Privilegio Coffee Highway Boquerón
- Travel insurance
- Private transportation from any hotel in the PCCC (Consult Terms and Conditions)
- Tour guide specialized in the PCCC
- Digital photographic material
Does not include:
- Gratuities, personal and unspecified expenses.
How to get there?
You can reach the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia by air using the airports El Eden in Armenia, Matecaña in Pereira or La Nubia in Manizales, the airlines that travel to the destination are: Avianca, Copa Airlines, Latam, Easyfly, Satena and Wingo, soon Jetsmart.
If you travel by land you can take advantage of the public transportation services that arrive at the terminals of each coffee municipality with a very good frequency of trips or in your private vehicle taking as main route the coffee highway.
Itinerary
Operation: Daily
Duration: 3 to 6 hours
Starting Point: PCCC hotels
End Point: PCCC hotels
Start Time: 9:00
End Time: 12:00
*If you want the day pass in the morning it is recommended to start at 9:00 If you want the day pass in the afternoon it is recommended to start no later than 15:00
Flexible schedules according to the traveler’s needs and recommendations to make the most of this tourist experience.
The transport will pick you up at the hotel where you are staying, we will begin by getting to know the Antioquia colonization represented in the monument Homenaje a los Fundadores located on Circunvalar Avenue which we will take to climb a few more meters to the Parque de la Rebeca, the woman with a bowl reference in the capital of Risaraldense will show us the way to the new Canceles 360° viewpoint with views of the Consotá and Otún rivers, a place that served for pilgrimages and funerals of the Quimbaya indigenous people who inhabited these rich lands.
Afterwards we will go to the Villa Santana commune to take the Megacable public transportation system to Olaya Herrera Park where we will walk along Fundación Street to the exact place where Pereira was founded, there you can capture a very good photo with the Naked Bolívar .
In this square we will take our private transportation again which will take us to Cuba and the Olympic Village, from this point we can visit the Cerritos neighborhood on the road to Cartago Valle del Cauca to connect to the El Pollo Variant and visit the Mirador de las Camelias, Through this variant we will reach the municipality of Dosquebradas and go up the Helicoidal Bridge to the Tambo El Privilegio.
In this last viewpoint we can see the municipality of Santa Rosa de Cabal, famous for its chorizos and natural hot springs produced by the volcanic activity of the Los Nevados National Natural Park; To finish, we will return to your hotel crossing the iconic Viaduct.
Recommendations and Travel Equipment
Travel equipment:
● Sunscreen and lipstick.
● Insect repellent.
● Sunglasses, with a minimum UV400 filter.
● Canteen, thermos or camelback (minimum 1.5 liters)
● Camera with charger and sufficient memory capacity.
● Traveler’s documents: passport, identity card or citizenship card, military booklet and medical insurance card.
Travel clothing:
● Comfortable clothing.
● Rain jacket (waterproof) or umbrella.
● Comfortable footwear, preferably tennis shoes.
● Hat or Cap.
● Binoculars.
Recommendations:
● Ideal for audiences between 4 and 60 years old.
● This is an ideal experience for those travelers who want to obtain a multicultural interpretation of the coffee axis, where they will be guaranteed a
excellent service, tickets to tourist attractions and typical refreshments of the region.
● In the Coffee Region the probability of rain is high, so it is recommended to be prepared to have sun and rain several times during the experience in
the same day since the phenomenon of microclimates occurs as in other regions of the country.
● If you take specific medications, take them with you. It is never unnecessary to carry a personal first aid kit
Operational restrictions:
● It can be recommended between a conventional passenger vehicle or a traditional Willys Jeep.
● If the traveler wishes to carry out the service in their own transport, it is necessary to re-quote the itinerary already
that the driver will be the traveling tourist himself; The traveler must be informed that the reduction in
cost ranges between approximately 15% and 24% but a final rate can only be given once
we have the minimum necessary information such as travel date, hotel location, phone number
pax and type of vehicle the traveler has; It should be noted that there must be a space in the vehicle
particular for the tour guide who will accompany them during the tourist experience.
● Private transportation from any hotel in the PCCC (“Terms and Conditions” – Free of charge
additional for hotels located in Pereira – For this tour a supplement of
transportation for hotels located in other municipalities of Quindío, Risaralda and Caldas: $210,000
1 to 3 pax and $390,000 for 4 to 6 pax. – Does not apply to the following hotels: Hacienda Bambusa,
Nido del Condor, hotels located in the northern municipalities of Valle del Cauca that belong
to the declaration of the PCCC by UNESCO).
Rates per person
Colombian pesos COP $
