Explore for yourself some highlights of life in La Joya del Sol and the surrounding region in the enchanting Tinamaste mountains. Beautiful beaches, secluded waterfalls, crystal clear swimming holes, an airy rancho with a view provide a playground of activity any time of year.
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ahhh...Blissful hydromassage in the clean waterfalls at La Joya del Sol
Exfoliation au naturel at Playa Nuevo Porton
Jenny enjoying one of many refreshing waterfalls
at La Joya del Sol
Playa Nuevo Porton and Kai
Birthday 3/25, I invited the families of my workers to my rancho for a rawfood pot luck
Rawfood kid Kai jumping into a secluded no-name 300 ft. waterfall pool
only a 1.5 hour hike away.
Secluded waterfall on the Barrucito only a 1.5 hour hike away through the woods and fields from La Joya del Sol
Brandon cutting pipas ( young coconuts using a climber’s clever platform)
Organic Market Day Thursdays in San Isidro
Amy Schrift does her thing on her finca
Amy’s hard work pays off at the market selling her organic palmito and pineapple
Making fresh sugar cane juice at the market
Teaching a rawfood class in Dominical Jan. 07
May I serve you? Rawfood toddler Juna serves up stone ground cacao macaroons on banana slices
Typical rawfood morning breakfast of tropical fruits - Caimito, papaya, mandarin, mango
Assortment of vine fruits, meloncia, maracuja, passionfruit, grenadilla
Rack O bananas from my finca hanging to ripen in the rancho
Indigenous Carau fruit pods - extremely high in iron, tastes like sweet molasses, seeds saved and planted
A morning’s horseride complements of my neighbor Linda
After washing the horse, we got to be friends at my neighbor Linda’s who does boarding
Stone grinding seeds on an ancient native grindstone - does a great job
Ultimate chocolate - sun-warmed stone ground fresh sun-dried cacao beans - turns into silky non-bitter fudge in seconds
MMMM....Macaroons made with fresh coconut, sundried local cacao, almonds and local honey
Beauty revealed - I hand-carved a cutting board for Amy from a lumberyard hardwood scrap
I made a stone cleaning wisk from bamboo sintered with bristles on the end
How I made the bamboo wisk? Step by step from left to right....I had to learn as I went - but materials were free!
Indigenous people pockmarked this rock at a site next to a waterfall here, probably to open food pods or make stone tools.
It only took 100 years to create these roots at Hacienda Baru Reserve
Fun with flowers...
Amy, Laura, and Beth in bliss in the glow of the sunset at the rancho
Sunday village fiesta with parade of horses (cabalgata) on my land- great chance to say hi to all the neighboring ticos
Life is pretty hectic...
Double Siamese bananas
Stephen, Sergios son at the rancho
Kai is today’s Tarzan
Friends stopping by in front of Diamante Falls
Amy’s pot luck dish - all from food grown on her own land.... yummmm
March 07 rawfood pot luck at the rancho with special guests Kazzrie and daughter celebrating her birthday
Raw food pot luck costa rica style
Paul, Melissa, Jeremy, Jenny visiting the property Jan. 2007 with an incredible mountain valley view
Diamante Falls Cascade 1
Clean enough to drink, Perfect place to mediate or a cool swim
Amy & Harmony rawfood baby at Amy’s rancho
Enjoying wild fresh ice cream bean on the excursion to 300 ft. no-name falls
Jay’s Swimming Hole on the Barrucito River a 1-2 hour walk from La Joya del Sol even has a rope swing
Drinkable water at the river
Cabbage Boat with curry sesame pate I brought to a rawfood potluck
Coconut Sprout delight stuffed with fresh mango, garnished with Jaboticaba berries....mmmmm
Coconut Sprout Perfecto
From La Joya del Sol, Nuyaca falls is a 2 hour hike or 15 minutes by 4WD and a beautiful hike through a prime rainforest to get to
Yoga back stretching after a hard day’s swim at Nuyaca falls
Nuyaca falls swimming at the lower cascade,
4 km downstream on Rio Barrucito from La Joya del Sol
Photographing Upper Nuyaca falls (upper left)
Frequent rainbows paint the sky
Eric swinging around on hike to Nuyaca Falls
Jesse leading a rappelling tour at Nuyaca falls
(Tree of Life Tours)
Poas volcano near San Jose. Its one of 5 active volcanoes in Costa Rica, plenty of safe distance away
Flaming Sunset at La Joya del Sol
Stunning sunsets almost every night
