Hi! We're Sander & Cristina, co-founders of Selvática Eco Retreat. If you're just joining us now, you may not know that we built Selvática from the ground up. When we bought this beautiful nugget of land, it had nothing on it. It was raw and wild, the epitome of selvática; totally uninhabitable & unfit for building.

3 years ago we moved to Costa Rica & started our observation of the land. The first year we gardened, planted 50+ fruit trees in our fruit forest and put our efforts towards soil remediation in the form of hügelkultur beds. We brought in a backhoe multiple times for land movement to create accessible & walkable curves and building sites. We did this while we waited for the legalities of the sale of the land & subsequently the plans from our architects & our search for a builder. In February '22, we started construction on our dome area. Once completed, we moved onto the Jungle Shala and finally in September '22, we started the construction of our main building.