Pozo Azul is a popular swimming hole with two small waterfalls.There is a small entrance fee since it is on the private property of $5,000 COP (as of March 2019). You can walk there in 40 min/1 hours depending on how fast you walk or take a moto taxi for approx 6000 COP. Also visit the Marinka waterfall, its a beautiful waterfall with a natural pool for swimming down below. There are two roads leading to the spot one is the main road and the other is off-track, taking small paths leading you through coffee-plantations. It takes 2.5 hours from town to walk there or you can make a trip of it seeing the Marinka waterfall, sleeping in a hostel up there and then walk the last bit the following morning, or just pay a mototaxi to take you up there. The view is best in the morning as sometimes clouds roll in around midday. Los Pinos/The Pine trees From Los Pinos (the pine trees) you have an amazing view all over the mountains of Minca and all the way to the coast and Santa Marta.Tours are offered in English or Spanish for $15,000 COP per person (as of March 2019) and include a cup of freshly-brewed coffee. ![]() Harvest season begins in October and ends by mid-February. Coffee beans are moved and processed using only gravity and power from the generators and they still use all of the original machinery that was brought up the mountain by pack animals in the late 1800s. It is a completely self-sustaining coffee plantation, using water from mountain streams to power generators.
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