Original Historic Coffee Farm Guided Tour With Transfer

This experience was great! We learned so much about the process of growing/making coffee and had a great tasting afterwards!

We had a great experience and learned so much about the historic Fazenda da Taquara coffee farm. Our guide was Wagner and he did an amazing job translating on the tour. He picked us up at our hotel and pointed out many interesting facts as we drove 3 hours from Rio to the coffee farm. When we arrived at the coffee farm, a member of the family gave the actual farm and farmhouse tour. The tour was in Portuguese, and our guide Wagner translated everything into English for us. The family member gave a detailed tour of the coffee farm, including explanations of the coffee production process from growing to washing to roasting. After the coffee tour, we had a tour of the historic farmhouse. There is much history and many antiques in the house that we learned about. All of this was followed by a wonderful lunch of stuffed breads, coffee, and sweets served in the farmhouse. The family members of the original farmhouse were so friendly and welcoming we felt right at home.

Our coffee farm tour in Rio was an unforgettable experience, largely due to our fantastic guide, Monica. She expertly guided us through the rich history of coffee, weaving in interesting stories about Brazil and Rio de Janeiro's past. Monica’s deep knowledge and enthusiasm made the tour both enlightening and engaging. For anyone interested in exploring Brazilian culture and history through the lens of coffee, this tour is a must. Highly recommended!

Very nice and authentic visit, were you are introduced to the family story and the production of high quality organisation Coffee. However, please note it is quite a long drive from Rio (Copacabana).

Wonderful trip to this small coffee plantation with the original colonial house. Our guide , Monica, was really knowledgeable about the history of the country, slavery and plantations. We all really enjoyed meeting Marcelo and his wife and learning about the coffee growing and harvesting process.

100% a great tour and a great day for us: Monica - the tour guide - excellent knowledge about Rio / Brazil history - very good English and a very nice person Gregorio - the driver - very safe driving, funny, good English as well Car, pick-up, drop-of, communication from tour agency - all perfect The farm was very nice, a lot of history. The owners, Marcelo and his wife are trying to conserve it and also to produce a high quality coffee. We made a tour around the farm, we visited the historic house, we had a cake, nice coffee and some very nice conversations. All the best from Anca and Mihai from Romania.

Amazing family sharing remarkable history and hospitality with their guests. A unique farm that has been owned by one family for almost two centuries. They keep a lot of original furniture, clothes, tableware, and have renovated a very cozy dining hall for events and gatherings. A special treat is the gourmet coffee grown at this farm. You will learn all the prep steps and enjoy sweet treats baked by the owner’s wife. Be aware that they only speak Portuguese, so you’ll definitely need a guide who speaks your language. Highly, totally, and undoubtedly recommended!! 11 out of 10 stars :)

I would NOT recommend this tour. Specifically, I would not recommend this tour to non-Portuguese speakers. We were originally told this was an 8 AM tour. The evening before we were told that we’d get picked up at 11 AM instead of 8 AM for a 3 PM Tour. At the time that we took this tour, there was only one tour time per day. So we had no choice but to accept. Departing from Rio, the Farm was 2.5 hours away, one way! Our Viator tour guide told us that she’d never been assigned to this tour before and therefore she had little to no information about the days events. We met at the pickup point where we waited for other tour-goers. We ended up driving ~5-6 hours in a small 5 passenger vehicle with 5 passengers loaded into it. We were offered 0 bathroom breaks or food breaks from the moment we left Rio until we returned to Rio 7 hours later (except for at the farm). At the farm, the farm owner/guide arrives and informs all of us that he doesn’t speak English (which everyone else on the tour spoke.) He explains to our Viator tour guide that she will have to translate EVERYTHING he says into broken English. Now, imagine never being to a location and not knowing anything about a place… you’re spoken to in Portuguese and somebody else is translating their second language and you still can’t understand what is happening. I give credit to our Viator tour guide for trying, but there were many instances where the Farm owner and guide talked for many minutes straight without a single translation simply because the Viator guide was overwhelmed and didn’t know how to translate properly everything that she was being taught. To cap it all off… there was BY FAR one of the more expensive tours that we went on during our 12 days in Brazil. It felt like we were cheated out of nearly $300 USD for 6 hours in a crammed vehicle, 1 hour tour, and very little new learnings about what was expected.

This trip was great. It was fun to get away from the city and out into the rest of the country. The coffee farm and house were very informative and a neat experience. Monica was a superb guide! Fun and very, very knowledgeable. I would highly recommend. And make sure to buy the delicious coffee!

The trip to the Coffee farm was amazing. You can see a place with two century family history, you can see amazing green surroundings and very nice hosts that give you the chance to see a completely original way of growing and production of coffee. We were introduced to the whole process, we could have the chance to see the house where a few generations lived. At the end we finished with a very tasty degustation of a freshly drinded coffee and a homemade cake. It's something different from the typical toursist attractions but it's definitely worth it. Last but not least, our tour guide Monica Francesca Bertazzolo was great - so nice, so inteligente and with so rich and wide knowledge of Brasil as a whole. We recommend it with two hands!

Monica was a fantastic guide. She communicated so much history in an engaging fashion. We learnt an enormous amount about the history of coffee plantations in Rio state, about Rio city & Brazil more broadly. She also translated information from the farm owner. The tour was at least as much about the family of planters as it was about coffee itself. Seeing some of the paraphernalia related to slavery deepened my understanding of the brutality of the system. This tour is not so much about loving coffee, but more about the history. Although, it was lovely to finish the tour with the locally grown coffee & home made cake.

Amazing tour and enriching experience. I learned a lot about Brazil history. The tour guide, Monica, provided thorough information about almost everything. She made the journey more beautiful. The visit was smooth and the farm was fabulous with its own interesting history and amazing house that has fascinating details. I recommend this tour to anyone visiting Rio.

I picked this tour because I wanted to do something different than. Our guide, Monica, was kind and knowledgeable and provided great translation. The tour of the former plantation was very thorough and it included a detailed history of colonialism and the slave trade. This is a great tour for history and food science enthusiasts.

As we are real fans of coffee it was really interesting to see the process of growing, harvesting and baking the coffee beans. We also tried the coffee as a compliment with a cake to the side. Also the guides explained a lot about the old process, still there is remained the water pipe system that used to supply the farm which is really impressive. Not to mention the wonderful nature and views from there. It was impressive and I highly recommend the tour

Highly recommend coffee farm tour with Monica , who is such an amazing person, with great knowledge and story telling. Overall great experience and a must do if you are travelling to Brasil to get to know the history of Fazenda , detailed information on coffee seeding, harvesting and finally making in what we buy in the shops. Just fantastic, highly recommend.

Coffee farm Taquara with the guide Monica Great tour and Monica (guide) was awesome! She knows everything about the city and her work, we had many advices for other places to visit in the city. Coffee farm was unforgettable! Highly recommend!

We booked this tour through Viator, as it looked quite unique and different from usual city tours with large groups. We wanted also to experience some actual Brazilian history and traditions and from the description, this tour looked very interesting. We met our tour guide at the hotel and then we were picked up by the driver. It was just two of us and we were happy to be driven in a nice car and have the tour guide only for ourselves. They both were amazing people, very friendly and easy going. During the 2.5 hour drive they also provided us lot of useful information about both city and Rio De Janeiro state, history, traditions and culture. However, it looked like there was no communication between the tour operator, guide and driver. They only had the address of the place where to take us, but no schedule or other details about the tour. Both the guide and the driver asked us what the tour consisted of as they were not provided any details. It was first time visit for both of them and they did not know anything about this farm. When we arrived at the farm the staff did not even have any information about our visit and they said they were never notified about this tour. After some back and forth discussion with our guide, they let us in and said we can walk around the few buildings, but we would have to pay 65 Reals for the tour. We explained that this should be already included in the tour we purchased and that we did not pay almost $170 CAD per person just to be driven to the farm and back. They still insisted that they did not have any information from our tour operator and they did not receive any payments. Our driver was kind enough to rectify the situation and pay for the tour out of his pocked. He se said he would ask the operator to be refunded. This was really disappointing and we felt lke we only paid for the transportation. Also the guided tour of the coffee museum and the main house was in Protuguese as no one notfied the property of English speaking guests. Our guide was kind enough to come with us (she had to pay for the tour too) and translate for us. We also wanted to see the plantaiton and resto of the farm, but they told us that can be done only if booked in advance. On the positive side the whole property is very nice and well mantained. It is also a hotel and it has a pool and a little lake on the property where you can fish or paddle. The lunch was delicious and there is plenty of space where you can just sit and unwind. I think that the tour operator must organize this activity accordingly and ensure that everyone is on the same page.

My friend and I had a great trip with the guide Monica who was so sweet and friendly. Here we got both the story of the importance of coffee for this country and the past of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro with among others slaves. Monica’s incredible knowledge and enthusiasm made the trip to this coffee plantation both enlightening and very exciting. For anyone interested in exploring Brazilian culture and history through coffee beans, this tour is a must. I highly recommend both Monica and this full-day tour.

The excursion is spectacular. You learn a lot, both about coffee and the history of the Hacienda and Brazil. I highly recommend doing this excursion because of everything you learn and because of how different it is from other river excursions.

Visiting a coffee farm is a wonderful cultural experience that touches our senses and imagination. It's as if we were in a historical soap opera with coffee barons, slaves, social life in the 19th century... Fazenda da Taquara is unique, as we are welcomed and guided by the owner Marcelo, sixth generation of the same family, who tells us the history of the place with great pride. His wife Cleide is lovely and presented us with a delicious homemade corn and guava cake (my youngest daughter devoured half of it! I beg your pardon!🤣). The coffee is special and premium. Everything done with lots of love and dedication. This place deserves to be known and publicized. I brought coffee with me, but when I finish it, my memories of this charming farm will remain. I also cannot fail to thank the guide Mónica Bertazzolo who was tireless in telling us the history of coffee in Brazil and the slaves who worked on the farms. He has great knowledge about the odyssey of slaves. He is a wonderful person who I recommend asking for this and other cultural tours in Rio. I am very grateful for having chosen this tour. It filled my soul and was the best of many I've done.

Immerse yourself in the history of Brazilian coffee production and trade We visited the Fazenda in August. We wanted to have an experience that would immerse us in a real Brazilian scenario, after a few days of visiting the city of Rio de Janeiro. In the Fazenda da Taquara we found what we were looking for: a coffee plantation and a colonial house that spanned the entire history of coffee production and trade in this Region. The Fazenda has operated for around 300 years and is now managed by the last heir: Marcelo, an exquisite person who puts passion into his project of recovering the family business. Inside the colonial house it was possible to take a tour of the rooms where we saw the clothes of previous generations and the coffee work tools from 1750 to today. This tour is highly recommended for anyone who wants to experience the history of Brazil first hand! Our guide Monica, with a 360 degree culture, introduced us very well to the history of the Fazenda, framing it in the broader historical-social scenario of Brazil and the Rio de Janeiro region, touching on both the positive aspects (architectural-artistic phenomena ) and both negative phenomena (trafficking and slave trade, auctions of people, etc.).