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Added by Jopie, at 12 October 2012
Opening Hours
- Monday 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Tuesday 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Wednesday 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Thursday 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Friday 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Saturday 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
- Sunday 7:00 AM – 9:00 PM
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6 Reviews
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13 July 2017
Yes it's a beautiful place and the coffee is amazing but the tour guide there is a robber. He stole from our traveling vehicle, iPad, chargers, money. Don't trust the tour guide in driving your vehicle don't let him out of your sight.
Cabin is great but it needs a coffee machine. Also don't forget a sweater.response / report this review -
17 February 2017
If I could suggest only one thing to do while in Nicaragua, it would be to go to Selva Negra. This place was paradise for my husband and I. A romantic little getaway from the heat at the end of our trip. The food at the restaurant is excellent, although a little pricey for Nicaragua but still reasonable. The room we had on the lagoon was very nice, had all the essentials. The views are stunning, the hiking great, full of wild life. We did the coffee tour and we're blown away. If we had more time we would have definitely done more tours. The staff was very accommodating and worked very hard for us despite the language barrier. We desperately hope to return one day!
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16 August 2016
Amazing coffee, very rustic and cozy lodging, and a forest full of howler monkeys. Extremely memorable and unique. And again, the coffee was so good.
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07 April 2014
Beautiful. Wonderful food, and excellent customer service.
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06 April 2013
I was there couple years ago..anywsy..if you go to Nicaragua , you must go there and st least spend a few hours there. Enjoy the food, people, the entire placemagical!!
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19 October 2012
This is where tourists and rich Nicas come for R&R. Founded by German coffee barons mid-19th century, the place still exudes an air of privilege and patrimony. That's not to take anything away from its beauty, or the quality of its lodgings (by Nicaraguan standards). It's high enough to be cool, its artificial lake and little paths and stonewalled chapel and birds and monkeys are quite charming, except for the bits of German-emigrant kitsch strewn here and there. Last time I stayed there was 2009; a single room cost $40 a night, and the restaurant served good food at decent prices.
Their mini-museum tells the story of the founding and development of coffee plantations in the Matagalpa area by German entrepreneurs, first and foremost Selva Negra itself. ("Black Forest" -- get it?) All very interesting till you get to the part talking about the Sandinista revolution of the late 1970's. Their depiction of the Sandinistas and their most prominent leader, Daniel Ortega, as vile communist hoodlums is profoundly offensive to anyone with a modicum of knowledge about the conditions that brought the Sandinista movement into being. The owners of Selva Negra appear to long for a return to the Somoza decades, when the foreign-born or foreign-educated aristocracy called the shots and the coffee barons got to treat their campesino peons however they liked.
You won't find any non-rich Nicas spending the night here; they can't afford it. Plenty of tourists from all over the world, though, and for good reason: the place is unique, beautiful, comfortable, memorable in many ways.response / report this review
