Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve

You’ll be picked up at your hotel and taken to the park entrance where your bilingual guide will be waiting. The guides at the Monteverde Reserve are some of the best in Costa Rica and they have a wealth of knowledge about the Monteverde Cloud Forest, it’s fauna and flora, the history and the growth of Monteverde. You will go on a 3- hour hike around this wonderful forest. Not Student fee $17-...

Great memories from our friends

It was a great trip. I can’t think of anything major off the top of my head that I didn’t like.  I loved having the vouchers—- that gave me confidence that I was in the right place. I especially loved our last driver, Fernando.  He was great!! He stopped to buy us some of those little hairy fruits because I said I hadn’t tried them.  I’m mad because I think I left them in the van and want to take some...

Why choose us?

Monteverde Costa Rica has a wide range of accomodations – hotels, cabins, rental houses and apartments that will fit any eco tourist’s budget and quality expectations. Below is a comprehensive list of hotels and lodging in the beautiful cloud forest of Monteverde. Manakin Lodge is a small place in between Santa Elena and Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. We are a economic option for small families but...

Adventure is waiting for you

Tourism is a growing sector in Monteverde’s economy. Having grown from less than a hundred yearly visitors in 1975 to around 50,000 in the mid-1990s to 250,000 in recent years, much of the economy is becoming increasingly dependent on tourism. An increase in hotels, taxis, guides, and other tourist-geared services have appeared since the early 1990s. Two bilingual schools have been founded to provide the...

Welcome to Manakin Lodge

Monteverde, Costa Rica  is a small town in Puntarenas, Costa Rica. It is often considered a major tourist destination in Costa Rica, primarily frequented by ecotourists drawn by the high biodiversity of its numerous reserves, the most famous of which is the Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde. View of Santa Elena town. Monteverde and its surrounding zone. This includes the larger hub of Santa Elena, as...