Chirripo National Park

Avoid.

Undoubtedly beautiful place. BUT! This is not a national park, it's a dictatorial maffia, where everything is geared towards you leaving as much money there as possible. It is an utterly confusing hur...

GUIDE IS OBLIGATORY! Nobody tells you before that you have to!

BOOK A GUIDE, you have to! Very sad, i couldn‘t visit the park. I reserved and payed park entrence fee, basecamp and lodging. After the organisation got all the money, i was informed to book a guide ...

Mt chirripo

Waste of red tape!!! Overly complicated. worst part they have the gall to charge foreigners more. A true scam

beautiful place for hikers

we went the first day to base Crestone's, I imagen a small wood house, but not it is a big place with excellent service good and big amount of food, extremely cool douches so I didn't shower, there yo...

Loved it!

My husband and I had a very positive experience climbing Cerro Chirripo and dealing with the red tape in order to register, etc. We followed a blog that really helped with the process of registering f...