COLOMBIAN COFFEE EXPERIENCE
This is an opportunity to experience the uniquely magnificent city of Cartagena de Indias from the comfort of your air-conditioned motor coach. Cartagena is a UNESCO World heritage site and a living breathing city that has been remarkably well preserved. You’ll first be able to savour views of the 16th-/17th-century San Felipe de Barajas, a huge fort that took more than 100 years to build and is considered to be an outstanding feat of Spanish military engineering in the New World.
You will continue to a traditional Café’ in the old city, where you’ll partake in a coffee immersion into Colombia’s most awarded coffee. A delight for your palate that will present a new array of surprising new flavors. You’ll receive a brief overview of the stages of how to make coffee from bean to roast, followed by a coffee flight prepared by 3 alternative brewing methods which will give you the opportunity to taste 3 unique coffee profiles. You will then continue to the historic colonial city.
The immense walls took 194 years to be completed and enabled Cartagena to defend itself from the numerous attacks of English pirates and other would-be invaders. The Spanish colonial architecture is some of the most impressive and best preserved in South America with its imposing merchant’s houses, narrow streets, flower bedecked balconies stunning civic buildings and beautiful churches. The city is dotted with many squares and public spaces which are now are home to sidewalk cafés and restaurants with the opportunity to stop for shopping before return to the pier.
Please note: this tour is not recommended for guests with high blood pressure or who are sensitive to caffeine. Guests with any type of food intolerance are required to communicate it to the Shore Excursions Office at least two days before the call.
