What to do in Guanacaste

An entertaining interactive learning about coffee. Listening and watching an expert that will talk about traditional coffee growing, from the sowing of the seed, harvest, collection, drying and roasting of the bean, until quality is reached, knowing step by step how the “Golden Bean” is produced, as the coffee is called in Costa Rica, recognized worldwide for its high quality.

Our Güipipía coffee is exquisite. We are a roaster that ensures the quality of the golden bean that characterizes Costa Rica. 
National roasting, coffee tasting and barista experts have trained our staff achieving that our roasting profiles result in a very high quality gourmet product. The visitors can taste and take home specialty coffee of Tarrazú and Valle Occidental, and high quality coffee of Guanacaste (Monteverde). 

Kitchen of the cattle ranches that fed the sabaneros.

A journey through the gastronomy from Guanacaste, essential part of the Chorotega and Spanish cultural heritage. Known the roots and forms of celebration, based on indigenous and catholic religious syncretism and the development of mestizo-criollo foods of exquisite flavor of indigenous, Spanish and African influence. Learn how to “nixquezar” and grind the corn an ancestral technique in the processing of the grain to elaborate delicious tortillas accompanied with “cheese curd”, a traditional artisan cheese prepared with the milking of the day. Also, the use of tools that are present since pre-Columbian times, such as the “jícaros” to eat or store food, clay jars, clay skillet and the use of plantain leaves or corn husk. Here you can taste traditional products from corn cooked in the clay oven; “rosquillas”, “tanelas”, patties filled with smoked cheese, sour cream and sugar, homemade bread and milk caramel accompanied of fresh poured coffee or “agua dulce” from the Sugar Mill.

Guaro, sweets and mucho more come from the cane!

You will experience the natural history and cultivation of sugar cane, showing the artisan process of extracting the juice and the preparation of the traditional “sugarcane”. In the Sugar Mill, the main character is the grinding mill (artisan process to extract the juice of the sugar cane), the “Matanga” is the gigantic ox that moves the “Sugar Mill” (mechanic grinder) to crush the cane and is this way extract the liquid that is boiled to a temperature higher to 1000 degrees C° in a traditional iron pan. The molasses (a thick syrup of cane candy) is put into wooden molds and when they cool they solidify in a round form known popularly as “tapa de dulce” (brown sugar) and obtain in this way the brown sugar 100% natural; raw material for the elaboration of many recipes of traditional gastronomy that sweeten the palate and give energy.

Chorotega Crafts, unique at a national and Central American level with a denomination of origin.  

A craftsman of the Chorotega culture of the village of Santa Cruz will show you ancient potter making techniques of pre-Columbian style, inherited from ancestors and preserved from generation to generation. The Chorotegas are one of the main indigenous cultures in Costa Rica. All the village of Guatil is dedicated to the commerce of pottery using the area´s clay and creating an economic system that supports the inhabitants of the village; a place full of tradition and art, captures in their clay pots, jugs, vases and other gouras representing love, power, beauty, the sun and the god.

Artisan Milking

Join our “sabaneros” from our farm and be part of the artisan milking which provides the milk for the coffee, curd cheese, yogurt, cheese, milk caramel and sour cream, among other consumer products in the hotel.

Gastronomic Heritage

The haciendas incorporated in the raising of cattle and dairy cattle new products in their dishes with the arriving of the Spaniards. The “curd cheese” stands out as a white cheese made with fresh milk in a form of a gem and of granular texture handcrafted which is eaten with corn tortilla.