Description

A virgin beach, good food, high waves, fishing and newborn hatchlings that crawl into the immensity of the sea. It is a tourist combo that must be tried. If you dare to do so, your destination is Playa Hermosa, located in the municipality of San Juan del Sur, department of Rivas.

Right there they will rent you a surfboard at a price of 10 dollars and you will have the right to use it for an hour or, if you wish, for a day. And not only that. You can also pay for lessons, to be taught the theory and fine-tuned in practice. Advanced classes cost $35. In two hours they will show you the correct way to get into a wave, says Luis Urbina, general manager of Surf and Sport, a company that provides services at the Playa Hermosa Surf Camp.

In addition, you can go horseback riding. Rent is $12 per hour. And perhaps you also dare to reach the viewpoint from which you can see the entire beach.

If you are lucky, you could witness the hatching of hundreds of Paslama, Tora or Hawksbill hatchlings. The Playa Hermosa hotel has a hatchery where eggs purchased from area merchants are incubated.

How to get

To get to Playa Hermosa take the cobblestone road that leads to the community of El Ostional. After six kilometers, turn left and travel four more kilometers.

Along the way you may see monkeys, squirrels, cusucos, skunks and rabbits. Speckled rabbits, like the ones that Doña Carlota González, head of the hotel kitchen, raises when she finds them orphaned in the bush, to later return them to her habitat.

She is in charge of roasting the meats on the stove, “so that they are preserved in their juice”. That's where the brochettes, chicken quesadillas and fish fillets come from, straight to the plates of guests and tourists passing through.

Nothing is wasted. Many pieces of furniture are made with the wood that the sea offers, including the showers. It is quite an experience. Go see it and live it.