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Cocora Valley & Salento

Towering wax palms (the world’s tallest palm) above the green coffee region.

In the heart of the coffee region, the Cocora Valley is famous for the wax palm — the tallest palm on Earth, reaching up to 60 m — rising surreally out of green Andean hills.

The colourful town of Salento and its surrounding fincas make it the place to learn how Colombian coffee really gets made.

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