Rainforest Sampler at Finca Esperanza Verde

4 days/3 nights in San Ramon, Nicaragua

About the Trip

A four day, 3 night Rainforest Sampler vacation for two people at Finca Esperanza Verde, an internationally award winning ecolodge and organic coffee farm in the central mountains of Nicaragua. The Rainforest Sample includes lodging, 3 delicious meals per day, 3 guided walks, all about organic coffee tour and presentation, butterfly farm visit and presentation, camp fire with folk music group, cooking class and demonstration in the tradition Nicaraguan kitchen including roasting coffee and making tortillas.

Includes: Accommodations, meals, guided tours and taxes.

Awards:

- 2007 Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Award, Best Small Hotel

- 2007 Guardian Newspaper, Best green hotel in Nicaragua

- 2006 UN World Tourism Organization brings 120 Latin American tourism planners and operators to Finca Esperanza Verde

- 2005 ToDo! (Germany) Responsible Tourism Award

- 2004 Smithsonian Magazine and Travelers Conservation International Sustainable Tourism Award

Certification:

- Central American Green Initiative, 2004

About the Organization

Finca Esperanza Verde (Green Hope Farm) Ecologde, Organic Coffee Farm and Nature Preserve, is a cool, green and tranquil paradise located in the lush mountains of central Nicaragua at 4000 feet above sea level. You will find beautiful sunsets, peaceful moments, delicious food, as well as educational and recreational activities. The farm, ecolodge and nature reserve run by local staff offers comfortable lodging for 26 guests, shade-grown organic coffee, rainforest walks over well marked trails and other natural wonders. Finca Esperanza Verde is a sustainable tourism project owned by Sister Communities of San Ramón, Nicaragua, a non-profit 501 c 3 organization run by volunteers in the U.S. All income stays in San Ramón, providing an environmentally-friendly source of income for local people and financial resources for community projects.

Green Practices:

Finca Esperanza Verde is all solar and hydro powered, it is a certified organic coffee farm, serves many organic foods, the buildings are built of all local materials, has a certified spring water source, has a complete waste water treatment, composts all food and agricultural wastes.

Finca Esperanza Verde is expanded our solar electricity system, photovoltaic or PV system at the lodge to power a couple of refrigerators. In 2003, we funded SuniSolar, a Nicaraguan student engineering group at the national university in Managua, to design and build some prototype, low cost, passive solar hot water heaters for Nicaragua. The prototypes were installed in 2004. Additional solar water heaters will be built in May, 2008 by Appalachian State University Department of Alternative Technology students. Plastic “sun shower” bags are available.

For more information, visit Finca Esperanza Verde