Nosara: ATV Waterfall Adventure & Organic Coffee Farm Lunch

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ATV rides to waterfalls coffee tasting and lunch in Nosara

You’ll ride an ATV through Nosara’s wild hills with a local guide, swim beneath hidden jungle waterfalls, then visit a family-run organic coffee farm for fresh brews and homemade lunch overlooking the coast. Expect muddy shoes, laughter with locals, and flavors you’ll remember long after you leave.

Step-by-step itinerary

ATV tour, waterfall swim, coffee farm visit

Ride ATV on dirt roads
Explore jungle trails
Stop and swim at waterfall
Ride ATV to coffee farm
Walk through fruit and coffee trees
Learn coffee cultivation and harvesting
Sample fresh juices and coffee
Enjoy organic lunch with views
Ride ATV back down mountain

The Experience

The first thing I remember is the dust — it gets everywhere, but you kind of stop caring after the first ten minutes on the ATV. Nosara’s hills are green and loud with birds, and every time we hit a bump, our guide José would shout something back at us (half warning, half joke). We rode up winding dirt roads that felt like they belonged to another time. My arms were tense at first, but after a while I just let myself lean into the turns. The air smelled like wet leaves and exhaust — not unpleasant, just real.

I didn’t expect the waterfall to be so hidden. You could hear it before you saw it: that steady rush behind thick trees. We parked the ATVs and scrambled down a muddy path (I slipped once — got mud all over my leg, which José thought was hilarious). The water was cold enough to shock you awake. I floated for a bit, watching sunlight flicker through leaves overhead. There’s this moment when everyone goes quiet except for laughing at how cold it is. It sticks with me.

After drying off in the sun, we headed farther up to a coffee farm that’s been in one family for decades. The owner’s daughter walked us past rows of fruit trees — dragonfruit, oranges, limes — she handed me an avocado straight from the branch (still warm from the sun). We learned how they harvest coffee beans by hand; I tried saying “café organico” in Spanish and got a big grin in return. Lunch was casado with rice and beans — simple but honestly perfect after swimming and riding all morning. The view from their porch stretched out over Nosara’s hills all the way to the coast, hazy in late afternoon light.

I still think about that coffee — maybe because of where we drank it or maybe because it tasted different than anything back home. On the way down, nobody talked much; just engine noise and wind until we rolled back into town covered in dust again. Felt like we’d been gone longer than a day.

What’s included

Your day includes guided ATV rides through Nosara’s mountains and jungle trails, plenty of time to swim at natural waterfalls, a visit to a family-run organic coffee farm with tastings of fresh juice and roasted coffee beans, plus an included organic lunch served with views over hills and coastline before heading back down on your ATV.

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