Lake Arenal, Costa Rica, real estate for sale
SOLD
B36 Valley gem with mini-resort potential - $350,000
Imagine driving for 5 minutes up a winding road to get the best view possible of Lake Arenal from the northwest end. Attaining the mountain top, you look to the southeast and, yes, there stretching before you is the 24-mile-long lake with the classic shape of Arenal Volcano standing high above the far end, smoke pluming from the top. Then you turn in the opposite direction and find yourself astonished at the beauty of this small valley, a beautiful secret Eden. You wish you could visit this magical place. Now you can own your own 8+-acre valley with beautifully contoured tilapia ponds and a year-round stream for just $299,000. The owners will consider owner financing after a substantial down.
The hidden valley with its maze of tilapia ponds set amid golf-course quality landsaping has wonderful potential as a sports or yoga resort.
In the valley is an 8.67-acre ranch with a complex of graceful interconnected ponds surrounded and separated by landscaping worthy of an elite golf course. The buildings include the owners' three-year-old home, a roomy cabina, a new indoor swimming pool, a greenhouse, a garage/storage building, and several ranch structures. A wide year-round stream curves through the woods behind the buildings, forming the northern boundary. Fruit trees and ornamentals as well as indigenous trees fill the area between the home and the stream, many of the trees serving as hosts to orchids. The ponds are full of tilapia, and the present owners sometimes fish for their dinner. The property currently serves as a lovely, peaceful private residence. However, the previous owner hosted a bed and breakfast. This unique ranch has potential as a family compound or as some commercial enterprise such as a yoga retreat or a sports resort which might feature horseback riding, fishing, mountain-biking, hiking, the windsurfing that is 15 minutes away, or other sports facilities that might be added, such as a tennis court. The ranch's furniture, equipment, and vehicle are negotiable. In June 2010, a crew from La Reserva Forest Foundation planted oer a thousand indigenous trees on the pastured hillsides above the ponds. The owner recently converted a lower pasture into an orchard, including several varieties of oranges, tangerines, grapefruit, noni, figs, water apples, lemons, avocado, and cashew.
The main house is just 2 years old. A visitor catches a nice tilapia from the beautiful complex ponds.
The owners' new home has a partly open plan and wide eranda on two sides for great enjoyment of this beautiful alley..
Ana Victoria catches a medium-sized tilapia within a few minutes of casting into the beautiful labyrinth of spring-fed ponds.
From across the landscaped ponds the home is at the left, the cabina in the center, and the dock at far right. In this view, the home is partly visible at left, the cabina is at the center with the dock in front and the pool building is at the right.
These two views show the home, the cabina and the dock in the left photo and the cabina, the dock and the pool house in the second photo.
The pool building was reroofed in 2011. The large new pool with skylights in new roof.
The original owner's home was converted in 2010 to a pool house with dressing room and mechanical room to one side. The building was reroofed in early 2011.
A kite-surfer gets a thrilling ride during the windy season. Horses get washed down at a nearby horseback riding center.
A kite-surfer enjoys a thrilling ride during the windy season. The B36 valley is just on the other side of these hills.
Horses at one of the lake riding centers get washed down. B36 could support its own horses for the excellent riding nearby.
Located above the village of Rio Piedras at the northern end of Lake Arenal, the valley is a few minutes from various sports, including kayaking, fishing, and wakeboarding. Other activities include mountain-biking and catered camping on an island to which one can swim or canoe.. The region's only bookstore is a few minutes away, while the towns of Tilaran and Nuevo Arenal are within 25 minutes. There is a variety of restaurants and cafes within 10 minutes.
A wide veranda skirts most of two sides of the house. The home has a high-ceilinged open plan comprising the living room, dining area, office, and den with a fireplace.
Wide verandas border most of two sides.
The main room has fine custom woodwork.
The kitchen has beautiful custom woodwork and much and much counter space. The den contains a large stone wood-burning fireplace.
The kitchen island provides much workspace.
The den has a wood-burning stone fireplace.
The house has a single large bedroom and bathroom. Custom woodwork by Arenal artisans enriches the home.
The single bedroom is very large.
Custom woodwork includes this artistry.
A cabin with kitchen, large bathroom, library area and two double beds with separating closets is between two lobes of the tilapia ponds. The roomy cabina, with two sleeping areas, a kithen, and a huge bathroom, looks out on the beautiful labyrinth of ponds.
This cabin has a kitchen, bathroom, living area and two semi-separate bedrooms.
With much glass, the roomy cabin has fine views of the ponds, gardens and hills.
In June La Reserva Forest Foundation organized a crew of workers and volunteers who planted 1600 trees of various indigenous types on the pastured hillsides above the ponds. A large greenhouse shelters rows of vegetables.
A crew from La Reserva Forest Foundation planted over 1000 saplings of indigenous trees on the hillsides in 2010.
A large greenhouse shelters rows of vegetables.Yet another building is a 2-car carport with a secure storage area.
The land between the buildings and the northside forest has many fruit trees and ornamentals. Orchids grow on the trunks of many of them. A healthy streams skirts the northeast end of the property.
Fruit trees and ornaments, including orchids fill the gardens that lead to the strong year-round stream forming the property's northern border.
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