Nestled into distinct natural settings that rejuvenate and heal.
200 acres of protected jungle, seven waterfalls, and a ridge that opens to mountain and sky. The land at Holos is not the backdrop — it is the medicine.
The Diamante Valley sits at the southern end of Costa Rica's Talamanca mountain range — a corridor of secondary rainforest quietly returning to its old wildness. Holos occupies a ridge inside that corridor, two hundred acres of jungle, river, and waterfall, much of it gently reforested over the last decade.
You feel the land before you understand it. The air thickens with green. The temperature drops at the river. The late-afternoon light through the cathedral canopy is, by quiet consensus, the most beautiful hour of the day. Sleep here is different. The morning has a sound.
All of our programming is shaped by what the land asks for — what the season is doing, what the rivers are like, where the wildlife has moved. Some walks happen by torch in the dark. Others end at a cold pool you only earn through an hour of climbing. The land chooses the curriculum; we follow.
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Nature-led programs
Forest bathing, permaculture, waterfall and river walks, hiking, clay bathing rituals, sun and star gazing — guided where guidance helps, otherwise quiet.
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Thought leader workshops
Seasonal series on environmental regeneration, agricultural strategies, and the cultivation of psychedelic plants and remedies.
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Seven waterfalls
Six waterfalls easily accessible from the ridge, plus the sacred Diamante Falls — the tallest in the country — a short walk away.
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Encounters
Howler monkeys at dawn, hummingbirds in the cacao, the occasional sloth high in the cecropia. You don’t hunt for any of it — it arrives.
The valley is a living census.
A protected watershed inside the Talamanca corridor, the land carries its own population — tree frogs and hawks, katydids and guans, stick insects indistinguishable from the branches they hold. These were photographed here, on the property, by the naturalists who walk it.
Photography on the Holos land — Mauricio Brenes · Juan José Solano (Rawfauna)
Pathways through forest and stone.
Whether you arrive for healing, celebration, creative focus, or reflection, the land itself is part of the offering: a place to slow down, remember, and reconnect.