Despite all the coffee we drank yesterday, David reckons 7 cups plus the coffee cake, we managed to sleep fine. Breakfast was, again, delicious and set us up nicely for our trip to the Hot Springs. There were a couple of places close to Manizales and we decided on the closer and the cheaper of the two. We took the public bus, only 1650COP each, for the 30 minute ride to the Tierra Viva hot springs. The road took us out of Manizales and down towards the valley on...

We had arranged a tour of a coffee farm today but breakfast was first, it was included as part of our accommodation. Martha made us a nice plate of scrambled eggs with toast and coffee. On hindsight it seems bizarre but we had a second cup of coffee while we waited for our transport to the Coffee Farm. Hacienda Venecia was a 30 minute drive outside of Manizales, on the steep slopes of the mountain. On arrival, we were sat down, given a coffee and told we could dr...

It was time to leave the city and head towards ZonaCafetero, a coffee growing region to the west of Medellin. We were taking a public bus to Manizales, it was a new, converted VW van with very comfortable seats and even WiFi onboard. It was lacking in luggage space though and we were delayed by 15 minutes while the driver tried to get all the luggage in back of the van. David was biting his tongue, despite not being able to talk Spanish, about how badly the lugga...