Is This The Best Motorcycle Tour In Colombia?

Jeff Cremer
13 min readApr 14, 2021

Colombia’s best geography for coffee production also happens to be ideal for motorcycle touring.

If you’re looking to experience the best motorcycle ride in Colombia and only have a week, we highly recommend this trip. Based on the feedback from dozens of travelers, we have put together what we consider to be the “Perfect Loop” of Colombia’s famous coffee region. Best of all, it’s located right in our backyard, only 2 hours from Medellin.

A coffee region motorcycle trip checks all the boxes:

Lush green mountain vistas with soaring wax palms over 150ft tall. Check. Colonial haciendas turned into chic hotels and bed and breakfasts. Check. Hot springs flowing from snow-capped volcanoes. Check. Twist the throttle and lean into turn after turn after turn as you make your way through high mountain passes and fog covered forests. Check. Include the cosmopolitan city of Medellin as the starting point of the trip, and you have a motorcycle trip from heaven.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Guatape — Climb the Piedra de Peñol in Guatape
  • Nevado Ruiz Volcano — Explore a stratovolcano
  • Thermal Springs — Stay at a hot springs hotel in Manizales
  • Wax Palms — Visit The Wax Palm Forest

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Jeff Cremer

Amazon jungle explorer. Photographer of rainforests, galaxies, animals, gigapixel panoramas.