Are you ready for an unforgettable expierence?
Visit our beautiful rainforest with one of our expierenced guides.
About Us
Welcome to our ecological garden. In 1995, when this family project started, our land consisted only of grass and cows, cattle land. We started planting specific host plants for butterflies to eventually breed them and export the chrysalides (or cocoons) for butterfly exhibitions and museums all around the world. Mostly for educational purposes. By planting different species of hostplants for the butterflies, a lot of birds species came along and started to distribute new seeds to the garden. New species of plants and trees started to grow and without our intervention the garden grew into a beautiful rainforest with an enourmous amount of biodiversity. Together with the birds and pollinaters a lot of other animals made our forest their home.
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Tours
Rainforest tour
Explore nature with one of our experienced guides and learn more about all the plants and animals that live in our forest. You'll be suprised.
Chocolate tour
Always wondered how chocolate was made? Join our chocolate tour and learn everything about cacao and the process of making your own chocolate.
King Vulture tour
Join us on this special tour to see and photograph this magnificent bird. You'll be suprised when you see it's wingspan up close.
Rainforest tour
With one of our experienced guides you’ll be taking a beautiful 1,5 – 2,5 hour hike on out 4 hectare forest. Along the way we will be showing you all kinds of species of animals and plants. With years of experience of taking care of the forest we know where to find beautiful animals all over the forest. We have more than 200 bird species living in our forest for example tanagers, honeycreepers, hummingbirds, parrots, toecans, arassari’s and the dancing white-collared manakin. Besides many beautiful birds we can also spot sloths, monkeys, reptiles, frogs and we will take you into our outdoor butterfly gardens. Here you can see different species of butterflies and wel will show you the lifecycle of a butterfly from egg to flying beauty. With years of expierence we have succeded in mainting the perfect living conditions for all these species. The forest became a hotspot of biodiversity and our goal is to protect nature inside and outside of our parmeters. Don’t forget that we can’t predict nature. That’s why we don’t stick to fixed times. The duration of the tour can depend on weather conditions and what we encounter. We don’t mind letting you enjoy nature al little bit longer. It’s also possible to end the tour with a extensive lunch with homemade local dishes. For an additional price of $15,- p.p.
Chocolate tour
We hope you like chocolate as much as we do because Costa Rica is famous for it’s chocolate! We love to share this passion with you. We will tell you everything about the cacao and the history of chocolate. In this workshop, together we will also be making chocolate right from A to Z. Our garden grows serveral kinds of cacao trees and we use the fruits to turn the cacao beans into natural chocolate without additives. Have you every tasted pure chocolate from the source? You are going to love it! We can recommend you to add this tour to your rainforest experience to take little rest and enjoy the taste of nature after a beautiful hike.
King vulture tour
We currently only do this unique tour on request, but that certainly does not make it any less special and worthwhile. About half an hour’s drive from Pierella Garden we have another location that we would be happy to take you to in our 4×4. This place is located a little higher in the mountains and provides the perfect habitat for the king vulture. This bird belongs to the New World Vulture family and can have a wingspan of 170 to 200 centimeters. Impressive not only for its large size but also for its incredible colors. Together with a guide we will place bait for the vultures and we can see and photograph them up close.
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Overnight stay in the Rainforest
Make your stay in Costa Rica unforgettable and sleep in a Rainforest Ecolodge. We have different types of ecolodges in our garden to make sure you will have the full experience. Each ecolodge has its own sanitary facilities. We have cabins for 2 or 3 persons and we also have family cabins for up to 5 people.
At night you can join our special night tour trough the garden where you can spot a lot of nocturnal wildlife such as nocturnal frogs, insects, many species of bats, sleeping birds and lizzards. After an amazing day you can fall asleep with the sounds of nature. Also includes dinner and breakfast.
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Need more information or do you have any questions? Feel free to e-mail us anytime. If you want to visit us, please make a reservation.
We are open 7 days a week.
Pierella Ecological Garden
Horquetas de Sarapiquí. Heredia. Costa Rica., Sarapiquí, Costa Rica
+506 8309 0190
info@pierella.com