Rutas de Aventura offers unique local knowledge that will help enrich your visit and provide you with a better understanding of Puerto Escondido and the unique wildlife, flora and fauna that exists on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, Mexico. We offer flexible tours for Puerto Escondido, Nopala, Manialtepec, Mazunte, San Juan Lachao, Roca Blaca and Finca Las Nieves - a bird friendly, organic coffee farm in the Oaxacan cloud forest.
***If you want to combine an easy to moderate hike in a Oaxacan cloud forest which is home to an organic, eco balanced coffee farm (would you have known that the highest quality organic coffee can be grown in the jungle?) with the excellent guidance of a well educated environmental scientist, Gustavo Boltges, who is also a knowlegeable birder, enjoy three meals catered by the Hotel Santa Fe restaurant ( which everyone knows is the best meal in town), and sleep well in a sweet adobe built lodge, with a fireplace and king size bed in your private room with stone tiled bathroom y shower, and wake up the next morning to a cacophony of tucanetes, owls, orioles, and burros, well, this is the adventure for you. Laurie Banks, New York
***Hello: I spent a most marvelous 24 hours recently, during the last week of november 2008, at Finca las Nieves.
I was travelling by myself and staying for a week at Hotel Santa Fe in Puerto Escondido.
I read about la Finca on Santa Fe's website and immediately knew I wanted to visit and spend a night there. Our driver, guide, instructor, chef, interpreter, and caretaker was Gustavo Boltjes, a tri-lingual young man who clearly loves oustanding people, coffee, the environment, and Oaxaca!
Everything was interesting...from the drive to the plantation, to the hike and nature exploration around its property, to the coffee growing and making process.
Everything was delicious...from the oranges hacked down and opened w/ Gustavo's machete during one of several hikes to the mout-watering mole and homemade tortillas served the night before. Three filling and delicious meals plus snacks were provided.
The rooms were simple, but spacios and lovely, well-equipped...with modern bathrooms, plenty of storage, comfortable mattresses and pillows. What a great sleep I had, after a great meal, lovely company ( 2 couples...one from Sweden and the other from Denmark), and the most fabulous star gazing imaginable.
I highly recommend a night at Finca Las Nieves as a memorable and most pleasant experience for anyone travelling alone or as a couple or family! Laura N. Chick, Los Angeles, California