Which Nayara is Right for You?

Distinct destination worlds: Arenal rainforest, Caribbean island, Atacama Desert and Easter Island.

Arenal resorts share the same larger rainforest world, with three different ways to stay: Gardens, Springs and Tented Camp.

Adults-only choices: Nayara Springs in Costa Rica and Nayara Bocas del Toro in Panama.

One Rainforest, Three Ways to Stay

Arenal is the one destination where choosing the landscape does not finish the decision. Nayara Gardens, Nayara Tented Camp and Nayara Springs share the same rainforest in Arenal Volcano National Park.

Overwater on a Private Caribbean Island

The overwater villa no longer requires crossing the world. For travelers from North America, Bocas offers the experience within the Americas, without the long-haul journey to the Maldives.

Overwater villas sit directly above the Caribbean, with the sea beneath the bedroom and terrace, while the resort occupies a private island where rainforest, mangrove, reef, and Caribbean ecosystems meet.

The island, however, is only the beginning.

Dolphin Bay at sunset

Dolphin Bay is known for its resident bottlenose dolphins, making it one of the archipelago's signature wildlife experiences. Late in the day, a private boat, dolphins in the surrounding water, and the Caribbean changing color toward sunset create one of Bocas's most romantic outings.

Explore below the surface

Snorkeling opens the shallow reefs to almost anyone, while scuba diving allows certified divers to explore farther beneath the surface with professional operators and guides.

After dark, bioluminescence reveals another layer of the archipelago, turning the water itself into one of Bocas's most distinctive natural experiences.

Nayara Bocas del Toro holds Two MICHELIN Keys, and Condé Nast Traveler readers named it the #1 resort in Central America in the 2025 Readers' Choice Awards.

The World's Best Stargazing Is Only the Beginning

The Atacama is often described as otherworldly. That is accurate, but incomplete. Within a single journey, the landscape can shift from mineral-striped valleys to red-rock plateaus, turquoise high-altitude lagoons, salt formations, volcanoes, flamingo habitat, and geyser fields. Then night falls over one of the clearest skies on Earth.

A desert that never looks the same twice

At Rainbow Valley, exposed mineral layers turn the earth red, ochre, green, white and yellow. Moon Valley replaces color with wind- and salt-sculpted formations. Higher still, Piedras Rojas, Miscanti and Miñiques introduce intensely colored rock, turquoise lagoons, volcanoes and the vast horizons of the Altiplano.

Elsewhere, hypersaline lagoons support flamingos in one of Earth's harshest environments, while El Tatio reveals the desert's geothermal force as steam rises from a high-altitude geyser field at dawn.

Professional guides explore these landscapes and interpret the geology, ecology, archaeology, and altitude of the terrain. Guests can also arrange private guiding if they want the day's pace and focus built around their interests.

What the Atacama journey requires

Return to the Catarpe Valley oasis

After the desert exposure, Alto offers a change of pace. The lodge sits within the Catarpe Valley oasis, where adobe architecture, gardens and water create shelter within the surrounding rock. You can spend the day among high-altitude lagoons and geysers, return to an oasis in the evening, and walk to a private observatory after darkness falls.

Catarpe rooms open to private terraces with desert views. The newly renovated Tilo suites add more space, an outdoor shower, and a heated private plunge pool. Both keep the emphasis on natural materials, quiet, and the valley beyond.

The Ultimate Bucket-List Destination

For travelers who keep a list of places they hope to see once in their lives, Easter Island may be the ultimate bucket-list destination. Few places combine such extraordinary remoteness with something as universally recognizable as the moai.

Then, the living Rapa Nui culture

Rapa Nui is not the remains of a vanished civilization. The descendants of the people who created the moai still live on the island. Language, family histories, ceremony, art, and cultural memory continue.

That is why professional local interpretation matters. Rapa Nui guides transform monument viewing into a deeper story of Polynesian voyaging, adaptation, ceremony, outside contact, and cultural survival. Travelers can also arrange private guiding for a more personal exploration of the island.

Why guidance matters on Easter Island

UNESCO records roughly 900 statues and more than 300 ceremonial platforms across Rapa Nui National Park. Their scale makes expert interpretation essential, not optional.

The national park requires an accredited guide, and Hangaroa's programs can combine accommodation, meals and one or two half-day excursions per night. That structure reduces planning friction and gives the sites a human context.

Allow at least four nights. The island's principal archaeological sites, more remote landscapes and living culture cannot be understood as a rushed checklist.

A resort connected to the island

Hangaroa sits on the island's western edge, close to Hanga Roa village. Its architecture draws on the Orongo ceremonial settlement, with curving forms, grass roofs, and textured natural materials that keep the building in conversation with the volcanic landscape.

The resort's relationship with the Hito family gives local Rapa Nui participation a structural role, while guided exploration points outward toward the people, landscapes and archaeological sites that make Easter Island unlike anywhere else.

Rainforest to Reef: Springs + Bocas

Begin in Arenal with natural hot springs, wellness, fine dining, and the privacy of Nayara Springs. Then move to an overwater villa on a private Caribbean island, where a boat and captain can dock at your villa and take you into the Bocas del Toro archipelago. One journey is enclosed by rainforest. The other opens onto the Caribbean.

Stars to Stone: Alto Atacama + Hangaroa

Begin by looking outward from the Atacama Desert, exploring extraordinary landscapes by day and the universe at night from Alto Atacama's private observatory. Then fly farther into the Pacific to Easter Island, where the focus shifts to the moai, Polynesian navigation, and living Rapa Nui culture. One asks us to look beyond Earth. The other asks how people reached one of Earth's most isolated inhabited islands.