Parque del Café

Coffee-themed theme park near Montenegro, half an hour from Armenia

A surprisingly large coffee-themed theme park about 25 kilometres west of Armenia, near the town of Montenegro. It is divided into two halves: a museum and botanical gardens section that traces the history of Colombian coffee from cultivation to cup, and an amusement-park section with roller coasters, a log flume, and a chairlift that runs over the working coffee fields.

The combination is unexpectedly successful. The coffee museum is genuinely informative — there is a long open-air walk past every variety of arabica grown in the region — and the theme-park rides keep children entertained between exhibits. A cable car connects the two halves, with good views over the surrounding hills. Allow most of a day if you intend to ride everything. It can be reached by bus from Armenia's main terminal in around 40 minutes.

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The park opened in 1995 and was built by the National Federation of Coffee Growers as a way to promote — and profit from — Colombia's coffee heritage. It now combines genuine educational exhibits on coffee history with the country's largest collection of roller coasters and a cable car that runs over the surrounding plantation.

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