Monteverde & Santa Elena

Jardín de Orquídeas

Monteverde & Santa Elena

This sweet-smelling garden in Santa Elena has shady trails winding past more than 500 types of orchids. On your guided tour, you’ll see such rarities as…

Butterfly Garden

Monteverde & Santa Elena

Head here for everything you ever wanted to know about butterflies. There are four gardens representing different habitats; they're home to more than 40…

Herpetarium Adventure

Monteverde & Santa Elena

For those who prefer their reptiles under glass (or at least behind it), a guide will show you around and introduce you to more than 50 species of…

Friends Meeting House

Monteverde & Santa Elena

This simple meeting house in Monteverde is the ‘church’ of the American Society of Friends, or the Quakers, who first settled this area and committed to…

El Arbol Hueco

Monteverde & Santa Elena

There's no sign, no website, and last we checked, nobody was collecting any money for this delightful roadside attraction. It's simply a hollowed-out fig…

Bat Jungle

Monteverde & Santa Elena

The Bat Jungle in Monteverde is a small but informative exhibit, with good bilingual educational displays and a habitat housing almost 100 free-flying…

Ranario

Monteverde & Santa Elena

Returning to its former glory as the Ranario, or Frog Pond (it's changed names a few times), this place also features an insect house. The frogs are still…

Iglesia

Monteverde & Santa Elena

A local landmark in the center of Santa Elena. The adjacent roasted-chicken shack apparently has no religious affiliation.