The lodge serves the base for hiking on our 40 kilometers (24 miles) of hiking and horse trails. You can visit the nearby waterfall or birdwatch before breakfast. Breakfast is served with food from our organic gardens and prepared in traditional Costa Rican style.

After breakfast, you can hike, ride horses, or travel by 4X4 to our camps in clearings deep in the forest. Resident naturalist guides (Spanish speaking) interpret the plants and animals you find along the way. You may see monkeys, quetzals, toucans, or the tracks of rarer animals along the way. We have jaguars, tapirs, peccaries, anteaters and many other kinds of wild mammals, although they are rarely seen. You will certainly see many of the 400 species of birds found at La Amistad, as well as some of the richest and rarest butterflies in the Americas, including the extremely rare white morpho.

At the camps, you will stay in rustic cabins and eat meals prepared in a dining hut over wood fires. Although you will be far from any civilization, you will still find flush toilets and running water. There will be no sounds or smells of civilization. You will be deep in a remote forest of unearthly beauty. Only the sounds of the birds, howler monkeys, crickets and frogs will break the silence, along with the wind and the sound of running streams.