We really appreciated our stay at Casa verde. We enjoyed playa Coyote with our 4 kids, good waves for all ages, safe current, nice walks to pick up shells, enormous sanddollars and other treasures from the sea. Except from local tico vacationners, we seem to almost have the 3 km long beach all to ourself!! It is fun to swim down the river at low tide. We loved to buy fish at the local fishermen cooperative, buy our veggies and fruits at the little supermarket in San Francisco, where the employees gave us an handful of "carambolas" every time we went!!!
We drove around the southern tip of the Nicoya peninsula (Mal Pais, Santa Teresa, Cobano, Montezuma). The back coutry is rural and peasant. Even tough we were six in a Toyota Yaris, we would recommand to have a 4X4 to drive around...easier to cross river.... We went twice at the Karen Mongensen reserve where you can see very nice falls and swin in little pools in the middle of the tropical forest. Always looking for a place to swin , we also made a contest in the Bongo rio and tried to find the river's most beautiful rock .... surprisingly, our daughter found a crocodile's tooth.....and won the contest!!!
Casa verde is a magnificient villa, decorated with taste and surrounded by a nicely landscapped garden. Lots of birds, monkeys, coatis, iguanas, enormous grasshoppers and other small and curious creatures can be seen around the casa. Ruth and Minor, who were taking care of the house and garden, were discret, friendly and full of attention.
We would recommend this place if you like private and confortable gateways, nature, and peaceful vacations, that's your place!! Thank tou Carla for letting us use your place, we enjoyed every minute of our very relaxing 2 week long stay.