Top Experiences in Arvi Park and Piedras Blancas Park (Parque Arvi y Parque Piedras Blancas)

Get a personal introduction to Medellín’s colorful neighborhoods, public art, and architecture on a full-day, private tour that includes pickup and drop-off at Medellín hotels, and a cable car ride in Arvi Park. Explore the sculptures of Fernando Botero and the graffiti cool of Comuna 13, then get views of the city from Arvi Park and visit El Pueblito Paisa with a local guide.

If you want to get to know Medellín's most appreciated natural treasures, set aside 6 hours of your time with us and let us take you to two unique places. On this tour of the Botanical Garden and Arví Park, you will enjoy the best contrasts between the city and nature, as well as spectacular views and a lot of learning about why these parks are so important to the city of eternal spring.

Historical landmarks in downtown Medellín, given by our guide
A worth-visiting guided tour inside the Botanical Garden
Metrocable’s best sights from the heights
Explore the nature trails in Arví Park
Local experiences along the tour

Discover the very other side of Medellin once you go all over the comunas. Take part of this integrated Arví Park and waterfalls tour and let yourself be amazed by memories, breath-taking viewpoints and lots of nature at Arví Park. Take the cable car from Santo Domingo and explore the contrasts between this natural park and the comunas’ history, and learn about the city while breathing pure oxygen. Come and experience diversity with us!

● Having the best combination of urban and natural sides of Medellin
● A brief history lesson about Comunas
● Full immersion in nature at Arvi’s reservoir
● Breathtaking viewpoints of both city and mountains
● Tasting and delicious homemade snack

Experience the main hot spots of downtown Medellin during this 3-hour guided tour. Visit the old churches, learn the historical and artistic context of the magnificent bronze statues of maestro Botero, hop on board the aerial cable cars and enjoy a spectacular view of the city, walk alongside your expert guide and feel the vibe in the comuna, or 'barrio', to see how people live and survive on a daily basis.
Tour guides in other languages such as French and German are subjected to availability.

Get a personal introduction to Medellín’s colorful neighborhoods, public art, and architecture on a full-day, private tour that includes pickup and drop-off at Medellín hotels, and a cable car ride in Arvi Park. Explore the sculptures of Fernando Botero and the graffiti cool of Comuna 13, then get views of the city from Arvi Park and visit El Pueblito Paisa with a local guide.

The Arví Park is a natural wealth of the city, declared a protective forest reserve since 1970. The park offers the possibility of discovering the magic of nature, fauna and flora, water and cloud forests, very fragile and vulnerable. Arví can be explored on foot with the accompaniment of guides upon arrival at the park.

Each trail within the park has a particular magic that makes it unique. The important thing is to experience nature in all its splendor.

Experience the main hot spots of Medellin with incredible vistas on this 4-hour tour! Feel the vibe in Downtown as your professional guide takes you to various locations in a new, comfortable vehicle, on the metro, metro cable (aerial cable car), and on foot!

Delight your eyes with breathtaking panoramic views of the city from the top of the mountain summit and Santo Domingo Savio Library.

El Pueblito Paisa in central Medellin will enthrall and captivate you with all it's charming colorful colonial edifices, church, museum, restaurants, cute shops, and much more.

There is a tour upgrade option for guests that would like to go to the top of the summit and beyond to Arvi Park.

This is a private tour with a professional, certified tour guide for you and your party only.

Immerse yourself in our culture of exotic flowers and traditional silletas in this awe inspiring half day tour, where you’ll experience a spectacular flower farm blooming with rainbow colored gardens, hosted by the original silletera family, who are the pioneers of this tradition.

Enjoy a blissful journey as we drive through the lush landscape.

Enjoy incredible vistas of the evergreen Andes mountains, where the cultivation process of radiant and exuberant flowers will be brought to life for you by the traditional masters, the farm owners wear their original garments while conveying their secrets of making the best flower arrangement silletas in a fun and charming way.

Guests get to interact with the family and ask any questions.

Experience the main historical hot spots of Medellin with incredible vistas on this 4 to 5 hours tour! Learn about our past visiting the Memory Museum and feel the vibe in Downtown as your professional guide takes you to various locations in a new, comfortable vehicle, on the metro, metro cable (aerial cable car), and on foot!

Delight your eyes with breathtaking panoramic views of the city from the top of the mountain summit and Santo Domingo Savio lookout point.

The memory Museum will open your eyes to learn more about our pass in order to understand the transformation of the city.

There is a tour upgrade option for guests that would like to go to the top of the summit and beyond to Arvi Park.

This is a private tour with a professional, certified tour guide for you and your party only.

Custom Tour
We start the tour in Medellín or Bogotá

We stayed 45 kilometers outside the city to pedal our first ride at 2,300 meters (8,202 feet) above sea level. This region is home to the second-largest flower fields in Colombia, which produces 20% of all the flowers that our country exports. And then, we will ride our way to Letras, exploring Colombia, because Letras is just an excuse to discover our country.

Daily distances: 64 - 124 km
Daily elevation gain: 680 m to 4,200 m
Duration: 7 rides / 8 nights
Level: King of the mountains and Beetle
Base price: $2,980 USD
Tour dates: Available upon request*
*Minimum number of people is required (6)

This tour travels by Metro or Cable Metro and will let us make stops at certain locations that show the evolution of Medellin as a global city. Experience a completely new and improved city, boasting the only metro system of the country, a symbol of the Paisa desire to excel and bring quality of life to locals. The system has been bringing service for a couple of decades already. Discover how this magnificent transportation system integrates main cultural icons of the city with the highest technology in order to incorporate amazing structures like the cable car or the recently added Tranvía (LRT) in downtown.

The Antioquia region is bigger than Costa Rica, is characterized by its historic towns, its traditional Colombian cuisine, its biodiversity, and its routes full of flowers and coffee plantations that have made Colombia famous.
We started the tour in Medellín, the second-largest city in Colombia, located in a valley and characterized by its beautiful surroundings, smooth roads, picturesque towns, and hundreds of cyclists riding on weekends along the routes where famous cyclists currently train in the peloton . international.

We stay 45 kilometers outside the city to pedal our first rides at 2,300 meters (8,202 feet) above sea level and then we move to the southwest of Antioquia, where we will learn about coffee in Colombia.

Distances: 40-100 km
Elevation gained per ride: 940 m to 2,200 m
Duration: 7 rides / 8 nights
Level: King of the mountains, Beetle and Classicomaniac
Price: $2,390

We want to make you feel like at home taking care of your needs. You sit back and we do the rest. We always give our best in each and evry tour we do

The Arví Eco-Tourism Regional Park is located in the corregimiento of Santa Elena, municipality of Medellín, traveling on the Arví Tourist Cable, which is 4.6 km long.

“With the Route of the Arriería we seek that tourists come and live the historical experience and know the importance of the muleteers in Colombia. All this within the experience of living the Coffee Cultural Landscape”.
The route will be from Parque Arvi to Don Leandro Coffee Farm and back to Parque Arvi.

There we will learn the process of Cultivation of the Best Coffee in the World, the Ancestral benefit of the Coffee process and we will visit the Ancestral Preparation Laboratory.
Plant your coffee tree

Enjoy the panoramic views of the city, the landscapes of the Eco Park!
Enjoy our coffee Spa with relaxation therapies with coffee products

We are a couple of passionate enthusiasts that bring a unique guided retreat experience, where travelers will immerse themselves in the captivating essence of Santa Elena. Exploring forests and trails, discovering nature in its purest form. The journey will conclude with an immersion in healing sounds and ancestral plants, providing a rejuvenating escape and a deep connection with the soul of this magical place.

On this day we will visit one of the most traditional areas of the department of Antioquia, Santa Elena, the cradle of the Silletera culture. We will have the opportunity to visit a flower farm to learn more about this tradition. We will also have the opportunity to experience an adventure through the forest in a high altitude circuit through the treetops. We will be in an environment full of nature and peace so that you can recharge your energy. You cannot miss trying a delicious typical lunch of the region so that you can taste the paisa gastronomy. We will also taste a delicious Colombian coffee with a delicious dessert. Finally we will return to the hotel.

There is no better way to escape your routine than with a bike ride! If you are in Medellin for business or pleasure, make sure you enjoy the bike! in the country where culture talks about our passion for cycling. The bike is the best way to get to know a country, breathe fresh air, delight yourself with incredible landscapes and challenge yourself in a ride that you cannot miss.

Distances: 40-100 Km
Elevation gain: 900 m to 2,800 m
Duration of the shoot: 3-4 hours
Level: King of the mountains, Beetle and Clasicóman
Price: $ 130 USD
Tour dates:: Available upon request

In this tour we will visit; Botero Square, Metro and Metro Cable to Arví Park. There we will have our landscape interpretation and we will also enjoy the peasant market that is located at the exit of the Arví station. Later we will go to district 13, one of the most important places that started marking the social transformation of the city, here we will be accompanied by local guides, we will visit the Electric Stairs and we will have a social experience.

Have you ever experienced a horseback ride before? Colombia is the perfect place, full of lush nature, rivers, waterfalls, mountains, flora and fauna, everywhere you look and visit there are amazing landscapes and beautiful weather, is like Colombia was made just to be outside.

Experience the main historical hot spots of Medellin with incredible vistas on this 4 to 5 hours tour! Learn about our past visiting the Memory Museum and feel the vibe in Downtown as your professional guide takes you to various locations in a new, comfortable vehicle, on the metro, metro cable (aerial cable car), and on foot! 

Delight your eyes with breathtaking panoramic views of the city from the top of the mountain summit and Santo Domingo Savio lookout point. 

The memory Museum will open your eyes to learn more about our pass  in order to understand the transformation of  the city.

There is a tour upgrade option for guests that would like to go to the top of the summit and beyond to Arvi Park. 

This is a private tour with a professional, certified tour guide for you and your party only.

Medellín is loco for flowers. Participants in the annual flower festival use 600,000 flowers to create plus-size images of animals, people and objects. See where the flowers come from by visiting a flower farm about 45 minutes outside of Medellín. Chat with the flower farmer, or silletero, and stroll the farm taking in all the flowers and their lovely aromas. Then visit Santa Elena, where farmers produce an abundant variety of tropical and local kinds of flowers. Includes hotel pickup and drop-off in Medellín.

Experience the main hot spots of Medellin with incredible vistas on this 4-hour tour! Feel the vibe in Downtown as your professional guide takes you to various locations in a new, comfortable vehicle, on the metro, metro cable (aerial cable car), and on foot!

Delight your eyes with breathtaking panoramic views of the city from the top of the mountain summit and Santo Domingo Savio Library.

El Pueblito Paisa in central Medellin will enthrall and captivate you with all it's charming colorful colonial edifices, church, museum, restaurants, cute shops, and much more.

There is a tour upgrade option for guests that would like to go to the top of the summit and beyond to Arvi Park.

This is a private tour with a professional, certified tour guide for you and your party only.

Tour guides in other languages such as French and German are subjected to availability.

The culture of the silleteros is a part of our roots and has given rise to the well-known Feria de las Flores that we celebrate every year in August in the city of Medellin. Get to know a silletera family, listen to their own stories and build a silleta along with them, while enjoying a country landscape.

TREETOP ROPES COURSE + ZIPLINE + SPANISH CLASSES + SALSA CLASSES

Do more than just a tour! Improve your Spanish fluency! Learn to dance salsa! Interact with Colombians! Make the most out of your time in Colombia with OLSA International!

This 5-day package includes:
4 conversational Spanish classes at OLSA International.
4 salsa dance classes at OLSA International.
1 day-excursion to treetop ropes course and zipline experience located in a nature reserve in the rugged mountains of Medellin!

OLSA International - Certified Spanish Language Academy / Cultural Excursions / Student Visas.

Experience the main hot spots of downtown Medellin during this 4-hour guided tour. Visit the old churches, learn the historical and artistic context of the magnificent bronze statues of maestro Botero, hop on board the aerial cable cars and enjoy a spectacular view of the city, walk alongside your expert guide and feel the vibe in the comuna, or 'barrio', to see how people live and survive on a daily basis

Visit Santa Elena, cradle of the silleteros and the greatest paisa tradition, we will board the metro cable to get to the Arvi Park station, we will visit the farmer's market, we will walk through a part of the park, and then we will go to the farm of the traditional silletera family. Typical lunch included and with a short tour of the central park to return to Medellin.

INCLUDES:
Guide (bilingual English - Spanish), private transportation, medical assistance, hydration, Entrance to traditional silletera farm, Guide for trail in Arvi Park, Metrocable ticket and Arvi tourist cable, Typical lunch in Santa Elena.

DURATION: 8 hours

There are about 26 holidays in Colombia and you can enjoy any weekend one of the most representative icons of Medellin with this 3 night 4 days package, including accommodation and private bilingual transportation from arrival to departure. This comprehensive trip puts together the most touristic icons along the city of Medellin and the beauty of the country side by Guatape and the Peñol rock.

This private full-day tour takes you to the most representative places in Medellin such as Botero Plaza, Botanical Garden, Arvi Natural Reserve, cable car, and electrical escalators of Comuna 13.

Just to clarify in case there are typos, this tour does not include lunch or meals.

Named after the Arvi bird that resides in the area, this natural park just outside of Medellin is a hidden secret that you can’t miss. Take this private tour during the weekends and get away from the concrete jungle to enjoy the beauty of this fascinating reserve on the Medellin outskirts. The great variety of fauna and flora will captivate your senses as you walk around precious sceneries getting close to nature wildlife. Discover a wide selection of birds, flowers, and trees that you haven´t even heard of..

This comprehensive tour is designed for those who want to visit the most traditional places within Medellín even if you are only here for a day!

Our professional guides will make sure and understand your main interests in order to save you time and only focus on those places and facts you are most interested in.

This full day-tour takes you from top Medellín's attractions to the most innovative Metro System and its Gondola while providing a sense of the local gastronomy along the way. Tour may be steered around according to your preferences and stops can be made during your journey.

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