Our Top 4 Chocolate Tours in Santa Marta

1.Cacao Experience Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 66 reviews · 4h 30m · from $46Our pick

Meet your bilingual guide at Minca’s church and walk through Tayrona Indigenous territory to a cacao farm. Learn how cacao becomes chocolate, taste fresh fruit and cocoa, watch for birds, and finish with a waterfall swim and clay face mask. Andrés Boh often leads the small groups, with English and Spanish available.

“excellent tour, change of scenery guaranteed. our guide Andres is very involved and he explained a lot to us about the jungle, the various tribes and cocoa. don't hesitate to call him, he only organizes small groups, which is appreciated in this environment!”

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2.Minca: Full-Day Coffee and Cocoa Tour from Santa Marta

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 61 reviews · from $89

Travel from Santa Marta to Minca, 700 meters above sea level, for a 2.5-hour walk through mountain streams, waterfalls, and natural pools. Visit coffee and cocoa farms, taste local products, enjoy lunch in a bamboo house, and return by hotel transfer. Guides speak English and Spanish, and Sadan is one guide praised by name.

“It was a great trip! We hiked thru jungles, took a break and swam near the beautiful waterfall, then we went to the coffee farm, saw how the coffee was made tasted a delicious coffee and coffee liquor, we also saw toucans there, it was beautiful! Then we hiked a bit more thru the jungles to a restaurant where we had the delicious meal with live music. After we learned about chocolate and made our own chocolates! The whole trip was really fun and good value for money! Definitely recommend to take this tour, you’ll not regret it!”

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3.Cacao and Coffee Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 24 reviews · 4h 30m · from $46

Meet at Minca’s church for a guided walk to a coffee and cacao farm founded in 1960. With guides such as Daniel, Albert, Alvaro, and Mario, you’ll learn about three coffee and three cacao types, taste organic coffee, raw cacao, and hot chocolate, enjoy a cacao exfoliating treatment, and possibly spot toucans or oropendulas.

“Very nice guide that gave us a lot of information. Also the operator organized a taxi for us from Santa Marta. It was probably not cheap but helped us to arrive in time.”

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4.Minca: Hidden Waterfall + Coffee and Cocoa Workshop

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 6 reviews · 1 day · from $78Top rated

Travel from Santa Marta to Minca by Jeep or SUV for jungle walks, coffee and cocoa workshops, and a swim at Cascada Escondida. Guides such as Ronaldo and Pedro lead small groups of up to 10 in English or Spanish. The day includes lunch, drinks, transport, and medical assistance insurance, with about two hours of walking before and after the waterfall.

“I enjoy a lot! Pedro was kind and very helpful. Everything was very good. The hike, the swimming the lunch, and the cocoa workshop. The landscape of Minca amazing”

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