Puerto Viejo Town

The Puerto Viejo area is home to at least three different cultures: the English- speaking black farmers who grew cacao and coconut until a blight in the early 1980s ruined the cacao harvest, the indigenous people of Bri bri and Caber tribes who live in the foothills, and the Spanish-speaking immigrants was so isolated from the rest of Costa Rica until recently, many of its cultural traditions are still alive. Over the last 15 years many foreigners also found there home in this multi cultural neighborhood.

if you want a taste of culture in the kitchen, try "rice and beans" cooked with coconut or jerk chicken, at the popular inexpensive Sodas. Also the famous "rundown" , a soup made from whatever the cook can run down, usually sea food with nampi and cassava or other rooted vegetables.

 

When you make a tour reservation or arrangements thru the Tree House Lodge, you are contributing with the Green Iguana Foundation, dedicated to the preservation of the Green Iguana, an specie in danger of extinction. And you can get for free the Iguana Conservation Tour that is given every week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Click here to learn more about this program >

 

 

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Just by walking around this beautiful town you'll experience the mix of cultures, friendly people and exhuberant nature that surrounds you.

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