My husband and I spent an enjoyable week at Finca La Esperanza Verde near San Ramon, Nicaragua, in February 2005. Their location is incredible, with pleasant accommodations, friendly staff and leaders, and an excellent variety of native foods that are well-prepared. This was an eco-education par excellence, with a diverse program that included a cooking class; picking and hand-processing organic shade-grown coffee; following a band of red howler monkeys; spotting toucans, trogons, and hummingbirds (including two juveniles in a nest ); finding a three-toed sloth "hanging out" in a small tree by the coffee mill; picking out constellations in the star-filled sky after the evening bonfire. We have attended over forty Elderhostels over the years and would have been overjoyed to find one like this experience at La Esperanza Verde.
Doris and Lewis C., Kingsport, TN. March, 2005

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The local government of the municipality of San Ramón declares that the Private Forest Reserve and Ecolodge Finca Esperanza Verde is a sustainable and viable ecotourism development in our municipality. Being of much help and of social benefit to San Ramón, the ecolodge has been declared the best ecolodge in Nicaragua for 2004.

We appreciate the incalculable value to maintaining our natural resources and to the development of projects of social benefit to our community.

May 7, 2004

Raúl Lopez Davila
Mayor of San Ramón

Finca Esperanza Verde