Around the Lodge
Educational Farm and property tour (5 hours)
Difficulty level : 1/3
Follow our guide through our ornamental gardens, taste flowers and passion fruit, discover the medicinal and useful plants and trees in our rainforest. While looking for birds and monkeys, learn about our project and our way of doing permaculture, reforestation and soil building. Rice, banana and sugarcane are only a few of the produce you will know everything about, before enjoying lunch along a beautiful stream.
Difficulty level : 1/3
Follow our guide through our ornamental gardens, taste flowers and passion fruit, discover the medicinal and useful plants and trees in our rainforest. While looking for birds and monkeys, learn about our project and our way of doing permaculture, reforestation and soil building. Rice, banana and sugarcane are only a few of the produce you will know everything about, before enjoying lunch along a beautiful stream.
Hot springs, jungle and river tour (all day)
Difficulty level : 2/3
A kilometer down the lodge, enter the biological corridor, a wonderfully preserved and unknown rainforest. There, surrounded by a rich fauna you will travel through muddy trails known only by the locals towards Rio Sabalo. Build a small dam with some rocks and enjoy natural hot springs all to yourself.
Swim in the pools of the river while being spied on by spider - and howler -monkeys before heading back to the comfort of the lodge.
Difficulty level : 2/3
A kilometer down the lodge, enter the biological corridor, a wonderfully preserved and unknown rainforest. There, surrounded by a rich fauna you will travel through muddy trails known only by the locals towards Rio Sabalo. Build a small dam with some rocks and enjoy natural hot springs all to yourself.
Swim in the pools of the river while being spied on by spider - and howler -monkeys before heading back to the comfort of the lodge.
Local cooking workshop
Difficulty level : 0/3
Join us in our kitchen and learn how to cook the traditional “Tamales”, a delicious corn preparation wrapped in banana leaves. Or discover the process of baking bread or hand made tortillas or quiches, or indulge yourself some treat with “ cajetas”, a milky caramel with grated fresh coconut from the garden…
Get your hands dirty, then lick your fingers!
Difficulty level : 0/3
Join us in our kitchen and learn how to cook the traditional “Tamales”, a delicious corn preparation wrapped in banana leaves. Or discover the process of baking bread or hand made tortillas or quiches, or indulge yourself some treat with “ cajetas”, a milky caramel with grated fresh coconut from the garden…
Get your hands dirty, then lick your fingers!
Outside the Lodge
Hidden waterfall (3 hours)
Difficulty level: 1/3
After a 20 minutes drive, meet Don Dyonisio, a local cattle farmer and follow the stairs while enjoying beautiful views of the Orosi volcano. Admire the waterfall and have a good splash in the natural pools.
Refresh with a delicious pinol drink, a recipe dating back from the Aztec times.
Difficulty level: 1/3
After a 20 minutes drive, meet Don Dyonisio, a local cattle farmer and follow the stairs while enjoying beautiful views of the Orosi volcano. Admire the waterfall and have a good splash in the natural pools.
Refresh with a delicious pinol drink, a recipe dating back from the Aztec times.
Bahia salinas - La Cruz: beach day (full day)
Difficulty level : 0/3
The little town of La Cruz looks down over the superb "Bahia Salinas", which is home to some idyllic and almost deserted beaches where you'll be able to see, at shallow depth, many sorts of fishes in iridescent colours, just by putting on a mask…
Here too you can sunbathe on the beach or dive into the clear water in the company of the brown pelicans…
Difficulty level : 0/3
The little town of La Cruz looks down over the superb "Bahia Salinas", which is home to some idyllic and almost deserted beaches where you'll be able to see, at shallow depth, many sorts of fishes in iridescent colours, just by putting on a mask…
Here too you can sunbathe on the beach or dive into the clear water in the company of the brown pelicans…
Santa Rosa National Park (full day excursion).
Difficulty level : 1/3
We are privileged to be located close to the Santa Rosa National Park, the biggest park in Costa Rica, which is famous for the incredible variety of its ecosystems: here, you can experience deciduous trees, oaks, conifers, mangroves (including red mangroves), coastal forest, swamps, and savannahs…
It isn't surprising that the park plays host to more than 10,000 different species of insects and 250 birds as well as some of the large cats: jaguars, ocelots, pumas - and other interesting mammals - white-tailed deer, howler monkeys, spider-monkeys, peccaries, and coatis…- especially at the foot of the Orosi volcano. There's also a marine reserve with beaches where Olive Ridley and leatherback turtles lay their eggs in this historical place which has been classified by UNESCO as a world heritage site.
Difficulty level : 1/3
We are privileged to be located close to the Santa Rosa National Park, the biggest park in Costa Rica, which is famous for the incredible variety of its ecosystems: here, you can experience deciduous trees, oaks, conifers, mangroves (including red mangroves), coastal forest, swamps, and savannahs…
It isn't surprising that the park plays host to more than 10,000 different species of insects and 250 birds as well as some of the large cats: jaguars, ocelots, pumas - and other interesting mammals - white-tailed deer, howler monkeys, spider-monkeys, peccaries, and coatis…- especially at the foot of the Orosi volcano. There's also a marine reserve with beaches where Olive Ridley and leatherback turtles lay their eggs in this historical place which has been classified by UNESCO as a world heritage site.
Lake Nicaragua ( full day).
Diffficulty level: 3/3
This 9 km walk through the forest trails and the fields will bring you to the banks
of Lake Nicaragua where you will have a magnificent view of the volcanoes and
the beach and will be able to bathe in the fresh waters of the lake.
This activity is temporarily unavailable due to political conditions.
Diffficulty level: 3/3
This 9 km walk through the forest trails and the fields will bring you to the banks
of Lake Nicaragua where you will have a magnificent view of the volcanoes and
the beach and will be able to bathe in the fresh waters of the lake.
This activity is temporarily unavailable due to political conditions.
