Greetings from the Rio Chirripó Retreat! How are you doing back in your home countries?  Already planning a visit to our magical mountain? We are looking forward to having you here at our beautiful retreat and to give you an unforgettable Pura Vida experience. At this time of the year[…]

This month of July we have been blessed by an Indian summer, although here it is called  ‘verano  de San Juan’, a yearly climatic phenomenon giving at least a week of dry and sunny weather when the rainy season already has poured out  its first heavy rains. This year it[…]

This poem was written by one of our lovely guests who was inspired by the beauty of the surroundings of Rio Chirripo Retreat:   Chirripo clouds slowly pouring white down the mountain mating with air and dark jungle green with all eventually passing behind veil a matching metaphor Michael for[…]

Reserva Río Blanco Reportaje de la zona del Chirripo que hizo el periodico El financiero: “Una escapada a los regazos del cerro Chirripó En las Tierras de las Aguas Eternas, en el pueblo de San Gerardo de Rivas, le espera una oferta de turismo rural, aventura y encuentro con la[…]

I’m yoga lover. Every time I choose a place to go on vacation in Costa Rica the first thing I google the area for is the yoga aspect of it. Recently we visited Nosara Beach in Guanacaste. Nosara is one of the best yoga and surf destinations in Costa Rica.[…]

In 1989 two friends had just returned from hiking to the top of Chirripo when they had an idea to create an annual Chirripo Race. On February 25th 2012, for the 24th time we are going to have the International Race to Chirripo National Park: the highest mountain in Costa[…]

El otro dia tuvimos la agradable visita de dos viajeros “sustentables”. Yo en lo personal nunca habia escuchado el concepto y me parecio interesante la filosofia y el proyecto que tienen estos jovenes. Un poquito de lo que son Eli y Alejandro:   Quienes somos Nosotros Somos una pareja de[…]

  Our dear friend Tao Watts who moved from the Osa Peninsula to the Chirripo area and has taken on the company of another dear friend Kimberly. Tao’s vision is to employ labor from the area to create a product that reflects authentic flavors, such as naranjilla, blackberry, guanábana and[…]

[img w=600 h=200 mbottom=”5″]/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/DSC06656.jpg[/img] Helen Eltis who will be Rio Chirripo Retreat’s first artist-in-residence is a world renowned British Artist who “fell in love with the beauty of Costa Rica” and has been living, on and off, here for 20 years. She paints in water color and acrylic paint and[…]