“The resort is well integrated into the local community, deeply cares about the people and the country of Nicaragua and is run with a caring social and environmental conscience, that makes the visit even more rewarding and valuable.” – Tobi

Projects and Mission

At Costa Dulce we believe that the most important value is our collective social and environmental well-being. By booking with us you become part of the responsible tourism movement and thereby help us succeed with our many community and environmental initiatives. You get to enjoy a dream vacation while at the same time feel good about your traveling choice.

The situation: A rapidly growing local economy and global climate change have taken their toll on the local environment and communities. That’s why we focus our resources to improve the situation for nature and people.

By reforestation and potable water systems we create water security for our villages.
Through buying local and providing micro financing we support a diversified local economy.
We counter the effects of land speculation through affordable housing projects.
Our conservation programs protect endangered species.
We empower our community members through education and fair paid employment opportunities.

Read here about the local projects with the biggest impact:

Social Projects

Barrio Planta Project (BPP)

Due to limited resources, many students in Latin America only attend school for half a day. The Barrio Planta Project (BPP) provides free supplementary schooling to the children of Latin America with the goal to give them positive recreation and supervised structure during the other half of their day.

BPP focuses on classes such as Art and Music that facilitate creativity, performance-based activities like Fitness and Dance that enhance confidence and curriculums that promote international communication by teaching valuable English and Computer Literacy skills. BPP believes that Creativity, Confidence, Critical Thinking and Communication Skills are essential abilities and will help our students lead happy, healthy and productive lives.

In addition to classes, through volunteerism, students learn to interact with diverse populations within a positive setting that helps them healthily integrate into the rising tourism industry. Volunteers also share interests such as Gardening, Sports and Yoga with students through workshops and apprenticeship programs that enhance their exposure to a variety of subjects while helping them discover their unique skills and talents. BPP bridges the gap between the growth of the tourism industry and the needs of the local population, so together we can utilize the newly arising opportunities and focus on the ultimate goal for a bright future: to Help a Child Grow.

Costa Dulce is a fundraising partner for BPP and closely works with other collaborators to ensure the continuity of the project. You can visit BPP during your stay and have fun with the kids!

Environmental Projects

The Collado Reserve

Collado is our neighboring community village in a tropical dry forest, home to wildlife like sloths, monkeys, birds, and more. Costa Dulce & Vital Actions have joined forces to bring abundance to this community with an ecosystem regeneration project ‘The Collado Reserve’.

The projects aim to:

Create economic prosperity through a regenerative economy:

People in the community get rewarded to restore ecosystems and help protect the existing ones. Through those little incentives, the local economy gets stimulated and the awareness of how fragile and important our natural surroundings are manifesting itself in the collaborators.

Raise the awareness of guests and local communities on the importance of ecosystem protection & regeneration through education & first-hand experience

Over the years we are studying the local effects on the rivers, on the food chain, on the climate, and on the fauna & flora. We are trying to evolve constantly and are spreading what we learn to improve our little piece of earth.

Restore landscapes that have been cleared

By employing the local community in preservation, the effects of clearcutting can be countered. This way, both floods & droughts are prevented and the land becomes fertile as the water is absorbed by the top layer.

The Collado Reserve is also used to compensate for the CO2 emissions of our guest’s flights. The wonderful tool of myClimate lets us calculate how much CO2 emissions are generated by our guest’s flights and calculates how much money is needed to compensate those emissions. We then donate half of this amount towards the Collado Reserve to minimize the impact of the flights. We encourage our guests to pay the other half during their stay.

Our Tuesday Jungle Hike takes you through the reserve to a little waterfall and our guide will give you more insights about flora and fauna.

Vital Actions’ Sea Turtle Nursery

Costa Dulce proudly supports Vital Actions, a successful ecosystem defense organization that runs a sea turtle preservation project right in front of the Costa Dulce.

Since 2016, Tim Rusmisel – the founder – and his local team have rescued over 50’000 baby sea turtles of four species hatching all year round on Escameca Beach. Protecting the sea turtle eggs is so important in Nicaragua since there is an illegal food trade with sea turtle eggs.

In 2019 Vital Actions successfully launched a second hatchery along the coastline on the neighboring beach Playa Coco and aims to further expand on Playa Yankee.

Vital Actions is a pioneer in environmental leadership, with other campaigns like beach clean-ups, ecosystem reforestation and their own wildlife/animal care that helps animals in need.

For every week-long stay, Costa Dulce is donating $10 towards the turtle nursery.

You can learn more about the project during our Monday Turtle talk and you might be lucky and able to release some baby turtles during your stay!

Our Mission

To help people deepen their connection with community, nature, and self by creating an open and nourishing environment that stimulates presence, curiosity, and growth.

To generate an inspiring community model to improve the collective wellbeing; by nurturing a diversified locally-owned economy that shares the vision of social equality and environmental protection and regeneration.

Our Approach

At Costa Dulce we believe in a holistic approach, and therefore see the key to fulfilling our Mission in elevating all people and the planet as a whole.

Our focus is to create a welcoming environment for everybody. This includes prioritizing education and empowerment for local communities while providing enriching experiences for anyone who visits.

“Any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.”
Alice Hegan Rice

“I didn’t want to leave and can’t say enough wonderful things about Costa Dulce. The mission and values focus on local community and giving back is by far one of the strongest and most prevalent I’ve seen.”

Lisa

“They also have a great sense of community among their workers and really make you feel apart of the yoga/surf/wellness community. “

Kerry

“Everything about Costa Dulce has been thought through for best community and environmental outcomes. Starting with minimal impact layout of cosy huts. Then the partnerships with a local wildlife group. They operate a turtle hatchery and animal rescue centre on the property (I got lucky enough to see an injured sloth being handfed and baby turtles being released into the ocean at sunset). The food is incredible; healthy, delicious seasonal produce sourced locally, served in a communal setting.”

Elyse

“Costa Dulce is a place for those looking to get back to what I believe truly matters. If you are interested in the natural environment and animals, if you are interested in community but also quiet time to reflect, if you are interested in your health, if you are interested in relaxation, another culture and lots of play then Costa Dulce is your place.”
Cami

“My experience at Costa Dulce was all good vibes. Tyson and Patricia employ mainly local and long term staff and are slowly building a highly sustainable and equitable eco-community…….I am not a big time traveller as I like to keep things simple, but I can’t wait to return next year as I feel like I’m now connected to a peaceful, expansive and grounded community!”