This lovely private gated Spanish Colonial style home is solidly built with beautiful woods and is tucked away down on the Lake Arenal Cove with a gated entrance hiding the home. The view is very special. It looks like a picture postcard outlined by a frame of trees and flowers.

This is an area of howler monkeys and over 100 varieties of colorful tropical birds in our area including toucans and parrots. Humingbirds fly constantly to the feeders hanging from the porch. Its a birders’ paradise.

The home has two bedrooms, each with their own full bathroom and one guest bathroom. The kitchen has a good area for preparing meals and the dining room has its own charming space with windows around it for viewing the lush green outdoors. The real joy of this house is lounging on the front porch and breathing the clean, fresh air from the surrounding trees. You feel as if there were no others in the world except for you since it is so private…..yet you are in a community of other beautiful homes with well maintained gardens that you pass by to come home.

You are within 10 minutes of Nuevo Arenal which has a4 population of 4000 residents, mixed Costa Ricans and mostly Americans and Canadians (with some Europeans). It has good grocery shopping, restaurants, most necessities. Arenal and Tilarán are both wonderful communities of very friendly residents of about 15% expats living peacefully with friendly Ticos. The altitude around Lake Arenal is 1800 feet in a low range forested, green-year-round, mountain area. We have many voluntary cooperative efforts and many activities so one need never get bored. It is truly Pura Vida since it is easy to make friends and have a stress free life with pure fresh air, clean abundant water, and with soil and climate perfect for growing food. The temperature is a mild 70F. average year round so stays green unlike the dry Pacific zone. No need for a/c or heat which saves lots of money and is healthier.

Arenal is only a short 1 1/2 hour drive to the Capital city of our Guanacaste Province, Liberia, where there is an International Airport, major shopping and then another 20 minutes to the Pacific Ocean beaches making it easy to go overnight or a weekend to the beach of your choice. A good idea is to share a beach house rental where each can have partial months to save money for enjoying mini vacations or take visiting friends and family to a totally different atmosphere. Arenal is also only 45 minutes from the tourism town of La Fortuna, and 2 hours from the popular Monteverde Park. Relatives and friends will love their visits.

Our friends all feel very lucky to live here as overall to us it is the most beautiful and healthiest part of Costa Rica where we have what is limited in the rest of the world: good clean air from the surrounding protected forests, abundant fresh water, and land that is fertile and you can grow food on.