La Posada del Cucú

If you’d like to explore the surrounding area, you can go hiking and cycling right from the pitches. A couple of companies in Salento (15 minutes’ drive) can organise pony-trekking jaunts fording rivers and negotiating steep climbs in the forest, as well as excursions on foot or by bike into the mountains. There are also trails along the Quindío River from the tiny rural settlement of Boquía (five minutes). You can stroll to the Santa Rita de Boquía waterfall (half an hour’s walk), a dramatic single cascade with a wild swimming spot at its base, or take cooling dips in natural pools just beyond the waterfall, in remote countryside about an hour’s walk from the site. The predominant crop in the region is coffee, and you can visit several plantations to taste their wares and buy the beans. Set in steep terraces, Las Acacias Coffee Farm (25 minutes’ drive) is a favourite stop, along with Finca Entrebosques (20 minutes). You may also like to mug up on local culture with a visit to the Iglesia Nuestra Senora del Carmen (15 minutes), a fine example of Spanish colonial architecture.