Fruit Tour At The World's Sweetest Market

Our guide Victor had a genuinely impressive scientific background and shared fascinating knowledge about every fruit we encountered. He knew where it comes from, how it grows and gave useful recommondations on how to eat each fruit. You could tell this was someone who truly loves the subject. Beyond the expertise, the guide was always seeking out the freshest, best-quality versions of each fruit for us to try, and took real care with hygiene throughout the tour. It made the whole experience feel both professional and genuinely enjoyable. If you're visiting Bogotá, this fruit market tour is an absolute must. Highly recommended!

We had the best experience! We tried a variety of delicious fruit and some other snacks along the way. Val was an amazing guide and went above and beyond for us!

Victor was an incredible guide, and we learned so much about the fruits and the market itself. We tried such a wide variety of fruit and other foods like cheese bread and arepas. It was all so fresh and we got to learn about how they're eaten and where they're grown. Walked away with some new favourite fruit. It's 100% worth doing.

I had Victor for this tour and it was just me which was suprising but very nice. Victor was very accommodating the entire tour including showing the flowers before they packed up early. His knowledge of fruit was incredible and he always hand picked the best fruits to try. I'd highly recommend anyone else to take this tour if they really enjoy fruit and want a tour of the market as well as you walk by most stores before the tour finishes and you can return after. Felt so full after the tour as well so don't eat before hand.

Our family had such a wonderful time learning from Valentina about all the fruits at the Paloquemao market. Our kids, age 8 & 6, loved getting to taste bites of everything, and Valentina thought of everything. We sampled so many things: hot drinks, fruity juices, special arepas de choclo, the best pandebonos in the world (we’ve sampled many before and these were phenomenal), and a double rainbow of fruits. We also got to tour the neighboring flower market. There were convenient bathrooms within the market, and lots of shops for artisanal crafts if you have time to browse after the tour. Our tour took about 3.5 hours, and by the end, we were stuffed - no need for any lunch after. Highly recommend!

Don't leave Bogotá without having done this amazing tour! We had the best time discovering and tasting so many fruits, fresh snacks, beautiful flowers and of course coffee & cacao. It was just the three of us, so the tour felt extra special and adapted to us. If you want to fully enjoy the experience, do NOT eat breakfast beforehand! We're so glad to have done this. It was the highlight of our time in Bogotá!

Val was awesome. Super friendly, super knowledgeable. Listen to her when she says to skip breakfast. Never knew fruit could span the flavor spectrum from sweet, to savory, to sour. Can't recommend this tour enough. Val also does cocktail classes for larger groups and I hope to be at one of them someday. Book this tour ASAP!

The tour was great! It was thorough and really well paced. We tasted a variety of fruits along with a couple of beverages, pan de bono, and empanadas. Val was a great guide! She was able to explain everything well in great English and even gave us recommendations for later during our stay. We loved having done this tour prior to going to some local restaurants because we tried dishes with many of the new fruits that we tasted for the first time on this tour!

Wonderful experience touring the fruit market with Valentina. Walk through the floral sections of the market, she highlighted the rare species found only in Colombia. Tasted so many variety of fruits, enjoyed snacks and juices. She helped us get an DiDi ride back to hotel when our wifi failed to connect. Highly recommend Valentina's tour.

This was so fun and interesting! The tastings included endemic fruits, traditional drinks, and Colombian snacks. I highly recommend this tour.

The tour was great and entertained both our teenage boys. I didn’t think I would get full eating fruit but was I mistaken. So many different types of fruits. We were also given empanadas, coffee and fruit smoothie.

Make sure that you don't eat before you arrive as you will be experiencing so many delicious fruits and snacks!

This tour was fantastic. And it's all because of our guide Val. We spent three hours exploring the fruit market in a small group. We started the tour with coffee (of course!!) We then wandered through the market and tasted about 25 different fruits. Val explained all of them to us. We also had delicious cheesebread and empanadas. Val answered all questions from the group with detail and patience. Highly recommended!!

Brilliant experience with Victor, who went out of his way to provide a great experience. Tried around 30 fruits, plus arepas, drinks, and much more. Very generous. He even took us to a chocolate shop afterwards going beyond the tour. Thank you!

I highly recommend this tour! It was absolutely fantastic. Victor is very friendly and professional, and he limits the group to a maximum of six participants for a truly in-depth experience at Paloquemao Market. We began with a choice of coffee, hot chocolate, or chucula, followed by sampling delicious pandebono and bocadillo. Then came the best arepas de choclo I’ve ever tasted! The highlight was an incredible fruit tasting. I lost count, but we must have tried around 20 exotic fruits, many of which I had never seen or heard of before. Thank you, Victor, for an unforgettable experience!

I came to Colombia to try anything Colombia have, especially fruits. I basically tried all local fruits that was offered. And Paloquemao fruit market tour was one in my list to Colombia.

As a Colombian, I thought I knew fruits, but I had forgotten the taste of such incredible flavors! The Fruit Tour at the World's Sweetest Market completely blew me away. Every bite was increíble, bursting with freshness , sweetness and bitterness. What made it even more unforgettable was our fantastic tour guide, Valentina , her passion, knowledge, and enthusiasm made the whole experience engaging and fun. Highly recommend this tour to anyone who loves fruit and wants a truly memorable adventure!

Val was a great tour guide, she made the experience very enjoyable. I highly reccomend this tour to others! Thanks very much!

I was the only registrant so it's possible that you may have a private to all. The guide Valentina was very friendly and professional and knowledgeable. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in fresh produce, there were other tourists there who did not have a guide and they look so confused so I was glad I signed up to the tour.

My friend and I are obsessed with fruit and we though this tour would be a great idea and introduction to bogota-we had so many fruits, Victor provided spoons, hand sanitizer, wipes THE MAN WAS PREPARED. He explained all the fruit, provided salt and tajin and before we even started trying the fruit had us cleanse our palate with some excellent coconut water. AND it wasn’t just fruit, it was also empanadas with 6 different salsas, pan de queso FRESH OUT OF THE OVEN, smoothies, hot chocolate, chucula and arepas from a stall that Anthony Bourdain graced with his presence. YOU NEED TO DO THIS. He also gave us recommendations of restaurants and bars to go to :)

Excellent tour! We tasted a lot of fruits and saw beautiful flowers. Our tour guide answered all of our questions. If you are in the Bogota area, this is a unique experience that you should do.

Great. Excellent way to spend time in Bogota. Host was excellent and very knowledgeable. Safe, secure and easy to navigate. We had a family and I was a solo traveller on our tour so this works for all people interested in food.

A fun, informative, and delicious outing. Victor was a knowledgeable and engaging guide. Highly recommend for solo or group travelers!

Val was an absolutely excellent guide, a fellow foodie and helped us have an amazing time. Would strongly recommend.

Val was a fantastic guide, so friendly and informative. We loved getting to try so many unique Colombian fruits and overall had a great experience!

Victor really does his job with a lot of passion. He is also very kind and helpful! Defenitely one of my highlights in the city!

We had a fantastic time sampling dozens of varieties of fruit. Our kids loved it as well. This was one of the best tour experiences we have been on. We highly recommend the Bogotá fruit tour!

Highly recommend this tour if you are wanting to expand your gastronomic knowledge. Columbia is so rich in produce and to be able to learn and even better, taste a fraction of it was amazing. Victor is incredibly knowledgeable and comes prepared to elevate the experience with his attention to details. Love love love!

What a great experience. The market was an incredible place to visit, combined with the knowledge of our guide just made the trip that much more special. We tried some amazing fruits, discovered Tahin & ate some great Empanadas. Our guide was so helpful, he helped us track down some of the things we tried during the tour afterwards too.

I enjoyed a wonderful tour with Val! She is very prompt & engaging and extremely knowledgeable about native Colombian fruits and vegetables. I highly recommend doing this activity within the first few days of arrival in Bogotá because it’s a wonderful introduction to the culture of the city. This experience with Val exceeded my expectations as she is an awesome guide and will ensure that you enjoy a remarkable experience! Be like Nike and “Just Do It!”

Absolute must-do! It was such a fun experience with so much (so much!) wonderful and interesting fruit. (And then some savory food too! We did not need breakfast OR lunch.) Victor is the best tour guide we had across the whole country.

An absolutely fabulous tour with the charming and beautiful Val. We tried so many fruits that we have never even heard of before and they were all amazing. Val was so knowledgeable, thoughtful and caring and respectful of the stall owners and their businesses. This tour is a must for those visiting Bogotá.

Victor was an AMAZING guide! Very knowledgeable about all the different fruits! So many I’d never even heard of! We ate so many varieties! He speaks excellent English and is very nice!

We had a great morning with Val exploring the fruit and flower market, and trying all kinds of fruits: three types of guava, 4 types of passion fruits, tree tomatoes, guanabana, mangosteen, andes blueberries, mora, the best avocado 🥑 I've ever eaten, and many others! We also had other treats from the market. Val is fluent in English and infinitely patient with us. She washed any unpeeled fruits, but most of our fruits we only ate the insides. All of our peels and pits went into compostable bags and she explained why she didn't bargain with the fruit sellers. Highly recommended for any stop in Bogotá.

This fruit tour was AMAZING!! Victor was an amazing guide, and he knew so much about all the fruits and did not pressure you to eat all of them or like them at all. Don’t eat before you go, because you will eat SO MUCH. In ours, not only did we try so many crazy fruits, but also other things like arepas and Pan de Bono. We went with two kids and two adults and every body enjoyed it a lot. We also learned about the fruits and Columbia in general. The tour was about 50% standing up and 50% sitting down, which was really nice. Amazing tour!! If I could give it 10 stars ⭐️ I would! 100% recommendation, you will not regret it.

Val was / is amazing. She easily was switching between Spanish and English. She loves to cook so she would also share ditches that she’s made with some of the fruits that we tasted. She knows everyone in the market so you knew you were getting the best. It was perfect amount of time. She paste it really really well and, we sat down a couple times to taste some of the little snacks they sell in the market

This was our second tour we took during our visit to Bogota, and I wish we had done it first. You could see this market on your own, for sure. BUT you would have no idea what you were eating. Victor was our guide and he was terrific. He was kind, funny, patient and generous. He knows everyone at the market and it's clear he has a great reputation. I never felt like we were in the way or bothering people, which is important to me as a foreigner. Trust and believe you will be very full after this tour. So don't make lunch plans. Also the empanadas were some of the best I've had here. Victor can also help you find certain things you're shopping for after the tour ends. He helped us find some coca tea and helped translate with the stall owners. Simply put, take this tour and do it when you arrive so you have a baseline for the rest of your trip.

We did this on our last full day in Bogota and I wish we did it on our first. Victor was amazing. Gracious, patient and generous. He's like the King of the market. He knows everyone there and it's clear he's built quite a reputation. We had more fruit on Monday than I've had year to date. It was such a great tour. Absolutely recommend.

There is a sign outside this market that says “All of Colombia in one place” and that could not be more true! Eating our way through the mind boggling level of biodiversity in Colombia’s flora was so special to me as a passionate home cook. I tasted flavours and textures that I like not have even imagined across the 20+ types of fruit we ate, among the many more that we saw. The atmosphere of this market early in the morning was incredibly lively, and certainly felt welcome to myself and my group. I am so grateful for our guides Val and Victor for sharing their extensive knowledge and passion for gastronomy with us. Chatting with them about food and drink in Bogota was definitely a highlight!

This fruit tour was an amazing experience for our group in Bogota. Val & Victor were extremely friendly, knowledgeable, and generous. Val picked fresh fruit from the market and shared with us over 20 different fruits during the tour. They were delicious, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to try so many different fruits that I had not before. It was also very pleasant to see how some fruits differed in size, taste, and texture from what I am used to in North America. Our group would definitely recommend this tour as it was affordable, delicious, and you will leave with more knowledge about the fruits and the fruit market in Colombia than you did before!

Amazing tour with Victor !!!!!! Definitely recommend it if you are in Bogota !!!! You will learn a lot

It was my first time in Bogota and I was interested in the different fruits. I went there with my other half, and we weren't really sure what to expect from the tour. However, we got extremely please by the professionalism and knowledge of our guide, Val. In the tour description, it is clearly noted that you should go to the tour on an empty belly.... and she wasn't joking. I ate so much a nap was needed after the tour. We tried many fruits with different flavors, color, and texture. If you have time, do the fruit tour with Val, You will not regret it!

One of our favourite things we did in Bogota. This was such a lovely experience from start to finish. Victor is the most friendly, thoughtful, engaging, and educational host. We ate SO MANY fruits. And we didn't just eat them, we got to learn about their history including which fruits are indigenous to Colombia, and how Colombians like to enjoy them (with condensed milk, or maybe perhaps in a tea or smoothie for its medicinal purposes, etc.). We even got to try some non-fruit snacks at the end - empanadas, cheesy bread and a Colombian hot chocolate type drink; so delicious. Victor was so kind, it felt like we had an old friend showing us around the market. He also comes super prepared with utensils, wipes, and hand sanitizer. Can't recommend this tour enough! Even if you're not super into fruit - it's such a cool experience. Thank you, Victor!

One of our favourite things we did in Bogota. This was such a lovely experience from start to finish. Victor is the most friendly, thoughtful, engaging, and educational host. We ate SO MANY fruits. And we didn't just eat them, we got to learn about their history including which fruits are indigenous to Colombia, and how Colombians like to enjoy them (with condensed milk, or maybe perhaps in a tea or smoothie for its medicinal purposes, etc.). We even got to try some non-fruit snacks at the end - empanadas and cheesy bread; so delicious. Victor was so kind, it felt like we had an old friend showing us around the market. He also comes super prepared with utensils, wipes, and hand sanitizer. Can't recommend this tour enough! Even if you're not super into fruit - it's such a cool experience. Thank you, Victor!

Wow! You should definitely, absolutely do this. Why? Val: She is an amazing guide. Knowledgeable, professional, passionate, fluent English... could go on, but I travel a lot and she stands out as a host and guide that can make time fly by because you are enjoying the tour so much. Five stars plus. Tour: You get to taste so many different fruits, see the market, learn about history and culture and the time and pace are well thought out. Price: You can't beat what you get for this price. It could easily be more, but I think the actual love of doing this and the passion are greater than the often found maximize the profit mentality. This is about passion for excellence. You are getting real value with this tour, and a memorable experience. One of the top highlights of my visit to Colombia.

My personal Bogotá highlight! Paloquemao Market is a bustling place with delicious fruits and vegetables. Our tour guide Val was incredibly knowledgeable and friendly, she ensured we had the best time on the market. We tried a huge variety of fruits and I would not want to miss it. This tour was perfect from start to finish. Everyone visiting Bogotá should go on this tour!

The tour takes you through the stalls of the Paloquemao Fruit Market, tasting along the way. The tour guide is very knowledgeable and fun, and was able to convince my nine year old daughter to try all sorts of food that she never would have tried at home. The tour we did was in English, and our guide Valentina had a very extensive vocabulary and a lot of recommendations for other places to eat around town and in Cartagena. This was really one of the best tours I've ever done. It does run for a couple of hours, but if you have the time and you like fruit - you have to do this tour!

What a great way to experience Paloquemao market. Without the expert and insider knowledge of Victor, we would not have known the details of every type of fruit. The market could be overwhelming if you don’t know your way around. The cost was completely worth the knowledge, excellent English speaking guide and included fruit from many different stalls- over 20 fruits— as well as empanadas, and even paid for the bathroom! What a wonderful experience.

Victor anticipated our every need! Go hungry and pace yourself! The market is located next to IKEA. We enjoyed amazing fruit, coconut water, empanadas, a bean and chocolate drink, smoothies and the best avocado I have ever tasted! The guide spoke perfect English and made the tour fun!