Bajo del Tigre (Children's Eternal Rainforest)
Trail · Monteverde
The walk-in gateway to the Children's Eternal Rainforest, a reserve started with money raised by schoolkids around the world. Lower, drier and sunnier than the cloud forest, with easy trails on the edge of town.
- Cost
- about $19
- Time there
- 1.5 h
- Best time
- morning
- Kids
- 9 / 10
- View
- 6 / 10
- Crowds
- 3 / 10
- Swimming
- 0 / 10
- Effort
- 2 / 10
- Location
- 10.30564, -84.81445 — Google Maps
Tip
Its guided night walks are a great way to see tarantulas, sleeping birds and maybe a sloth.
Be careful
Start early, carry water, tell someone your route, and turn back if the weather turns.
Places nearby
- El Establo Mountain HotelStays · from $253Mountain hotel in Monteverde with its own 65-hectare cloud forest reserve.
- Restaurante La Cuchara de la Abuela (CASEM)Food & CoffeeCooperative-run kitchen at CASEM, the women's craft co-op, serving typical plates and handmade corn tortillas.
- Stella's Monteverde Bakery & CaféFood & CoffeeBakery opened in 1992 by English-born Stella Wallace, now a breakfast and lunch café across from the CASEM crafts co-op, using local cheeses and house bread.
- The Bat JungleParks & WildlifeIndoor bat exhibit designed by bat biologist Dr.
- Pizzería e Ristorante TramontiFood & CoffeeFamily-run Italian restaurant since 1993 (founded by an Italian and Costa Rican couple), with a wood-fired oven, house-made ravioli and lasagna and a glass-and-timber dining room above the valley.
- Valle Escondido Nature ReserveParks & Wildlife · from $8Family-run 17-hectare reserve with trails, wooden platforms over a ravine and waterfall views, plus one of Monteverde's first night tours.
Sources: OpenStreetMap node/5536182374 · https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5536182374 · https://acmcr.org/content/?p=32 · https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Monteverde