Camping Avatar House

Hire bikes on site or join one of the excursions on foot or horseback to explore the surrounding rural area. The laidback town of Puerto Viejo is four kilometres away and has lots of colourful houses, restaurants and a spectacular black sand beach. Playa Cocles, a kilometre away, is a great surfing beach, while Playa Punta Uva, five kilometres away, is calmer and more suited to swimming and snorkelling. You'll find great hiking trails and more wildlife spotting iin Gandoca-Manzanillo National Refuge, 10 kilometres away, and Cahuita National Park, 20 kilometres north. Learn about making chocolate and taste some samples from the bean-to-bar chocolate maker CariBeans, three kilometres away. Despite its name, on a tour of the Jaguar Rescue Center two kilometres away, you'll see all sorts of rescued animals including monkeys, sloths, snakes and birds.