Manuel Antonio national park is good for a day trip. It's 45 minutes north towards Quepos. Take your crew up for lunch at the restaurant built out of an airplane and spend the afternoon on the beach where the waves are very tamed. Visit some art galleries.
Rancho La Merced is where we take the family for horseback riding tour. You can choose to ride on the beach or by the river and waterfall. WhatsApp. +506 8861-5147
Cascada Verde in Uvita is an easily accessible waterfall. Drive towards Uvita and turn left on the road right before the first BM supermarket. Continue on the dirt road for a while until you see a sign for Cascada Verde. There is a small charge to get to these falls. Bring your lunch [...]
Nauyaca Falls is beautiful but it’s hard to get to. The most common way is to go on horses. We can arrange for a local family that has a farm and gives horseback tours to Nauyaca with meals.
Set over a water stream, El Manu was originally a restaurant known for its great food and one of the first places to have electricity in the area leveraging hydroelectricity. The space has been preserved and includes teak floor harvested onsite within Selva Escondida, reptile statues in the flowing water beneath El [...]
Toucans love to hang out in pairs under our tall royal palm trees near the house around sunset. Once you can recognized their sound, you will be able to spot them very easily. Visit our Birding Page.
Hiking to the Mirador is the best part of Selva Escondida. Our trail system to the Mirador is moderately difficult yet many grandparents and grandchildren have explored the trails. The view of the Pacific Ocean, Whales Tail, Osa Peninsula, Isla de Caño, and the surrounding rainforest is both impressive and relaxing, and [...]
If you look carefully, this specie can be found near El Manu, our old restaurant turned into yoga platform.
Howler monkeys live on our property. They travel around eating fruits and nuts from the trees. They travel in groups of 6 to 15 animals and during the right season pass through the trees near our house. Group males generally howl at dawn and dusk.
5 minutes drive from our front gate, is the closer beach to our property. It's a long open beach with surfable waves. The community raised money every year to fund the lifeguards for the beach.