Finca Lindos Ojos

Beautiful area of countryside. The cabañas were large, clean and comfortable. The horse riding trip was a highlight!

Difficult to access by public transport - long bus on a bumpy road, followed by 20 minute walk past many barking dogs. It felt a little scary arriving past sunset, the path to the farm was unlit and we were unable to find any staff to welcome us for a while. We expected much better kitchen facilities, seeing as the only option is to cook for yourself. There were insects and mice in the kitchen, and no sharp knives.

The place is in a very nice location, surrounded by nature. The cabins were okay, and similar to what we expected. The horseback riding tour was beautiful.

With the restaurant still closed due to covid, we were cooking our own meals in the kitchen. However, we did find it could be better equipped. There were no cooking knives to, for example, cut vegetables. Moreover, the pots and pans were relatively dirty. There are a lot of dogs on the property, which we normally do not have any problem with, but one of them kept jumping over the porch fence to try and reach our food. We had to go ask two times to please watch their dogs, since we found this unpleasant. Marlene did help us with this immediately. Finally, we do not recommend doing a birdwatching tour with Marcial. He told us when we arrived, he was a birdwatching, orchid, and medicinal plants guide. The birdwatching tour was hugely disappointing. He told us it was important to leave early, so we agreed to meet at 6am. Finally, we were only able to leave at 6:40am because he overslept and took so much time to get ready. The ‘tour’ was a 400m walk to small finca garden where there were 2 species of hummingbirds he could not identify, and back to to Lindos Ojos. On the way he told us names of two birds, and pointed at some pictures in his book which were doubtfully the correct species, saying the drawings in the book were not very good.