A well maintained and pleasant 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom house up in the mountains above Uvita was a great home base to access many other adventures. Our early April visit was blessed with great weather which allowed us to enjoy the swimming pool and slide frequently. The available Wi-Fi was helpful in arranging and confirming tours and other day trips. It seemed to be reliable as long as power was available.

To access the properties you'll have to be prepared to drive up and down some fairly steep gravel roads which could be bumpy but were well maintained for the most part (it's about a 15-20 minute drive to town). We rented Del's stick shift SUV which did a great job of traversing the terrain and getting us around mostly comfortably. The track could get slick during & immediately after a rain but it seemed to dry out fairly quickly.

There were a number of tropical birds that frequent the large tree canopy surrounding the property. We even had a couple visits from what we believed to be Howler Monkeys. There were also multiple types of frogs that would come around in the evenings, one kept saying "WWOORD" or something to that affect. Being up in a tropical forest you'd expect to see a lot of insects but for the most part they didn't become a nuisance during the day and were manageable at night if you kept the outside lights off. The large sliding screen doors to the deck area made it easy to get air but kept things out of the kitchen and bed room areas.

The property caretakers were very friendly and helpful! When called upon to make meals they provided our group delicious options with large portions. They were also very flexible when it came to scheduling house cleanings and they were close but not too close if we had questions about anything. It would have helped if we were better at speaking Spanish but they are pretty well versed in English so it never created a major problem.

There are more than enough tours and attractions to choose from and we were amazed that every restaurant or "soda" we stopped at along the way had great food. The views from most were amazing and one even had white faced monkeys frequent around lunch time which was a welcome surprise when we happened upon it by accident.

Ultimately the only reason I didn't give a 5 star review was because of the drive too and from town but if you didn't have that then the view wouldn't be as good or the sounds so pure so there's always a trade off. As they say, Pura vida.