Working Remotely From Colombia? Trade the City for a Coffee Farm

Blog · Digital nomads

Most remote workers who land in Colombia default to Medellín or a Bogotá apartment. Fair enough, they're easy. But if you can genuinely work from anywhere, "easy" isn't the point. The point is waking up somewhere that doesn't look like every other co-living in every other city.

El Nido Andino is a family coffee farm in the mountains of Cundinamarca, about two hours from Bogotá, where it sits around 22°C most of the year. We set up a corner of it for people who work off a laptop and would rather do it with a valley in front of them than a wall.

What you actually need to work

The non-negotiables first, because you've been burned before:

• Internet: 250 Mbps wifi. Fast enough for calls and uploads, not just email.
• A private desk in your room, with an ergonomic chair, good natural light and power outlets. Not a bed and good intentions.
• Power that stays on, and quiet that's actually quiet.

After that: an outdoor pool, jacuzzi, unlimited farm coffee freshly roasted (you're on a coffee farm, it'd be rude not to), breakfast every day, and a two-hour line back to Bogotá's airport when it's time to move on.

The weekly package

The Digital Nomad package runs from $1,200,000 COP per week and includes:

• A boutique room with a desk and balcony
• 250 Mbps wifi and a private work space
• Breakfast every day
• Unlimited farm coffee, freshly roasted
• Pool and jacuzzi
• One coffee workshop

Staying a month? We do that too. Just ask us for monthly rates.

When you close the laptop

The best part of working here is Friday at 5pm. The walk to the Salto de las Monjas waterfall is about forty minutes on foot from the farm. There are 50-plus bird species on the property if that's your thing. And the coffee you've been drinking all week grows on the same hill, so you can walk it and see how it's made.