by Eva Zelaya | Jun 29, 2026 | Culinary Experience, Nature & Wildlife, Nicaraguan Cuisine
Most mangos you’ve eaten have had a long journey before they reached you. Picked early. Transported far. Ripened under conditions designed for shelf life, not flavor. The mangos at Nekupe haven’t gone anywhere. They grow on the property, ripen on the tree,...
by Eva Zelaya | Jun 25, 2026 | Adventure & Activities, Nature & Wildlife, Nekupe Experiences, The Nekupe Difference
There’s a question every family trip planner quietly dreads. What are the kids going to do while the adults finally relax? What are the grandparents going to do while the teenagers disappear? And who, exactly, decided that “luxury family travel”...
by Eva Zelaya | Jun 23, 2026 | Nature & Wildlife, Nicaraguan Cuisine, The Nekupe Difference
Some stories at Nekupe start with a guest experience. This one starts with soil. Years before a single pitahaya took root here, this land told a different story — one of cleared pasture and soil pushed past what it could give. Reforesting it was never a single...
by Eva Zelaya | Jun 14, 2026 | Nature & Wildlife, Nekupe Experiences
The luxury travel industry has spent the last decade congratulating itself for achieving net-zero. Net-zero is not enough. A traveler who leaves no footprint has, at best, passed through without making things worse. That is a low bar for an industry with the...
by Eva Zelaya | Jun 14, 2026 | Nature & Wildlife
There is a version of luxury that takes. It takes land, clears it, builds on it, surrounds it with walls and calls it exclusive. It takes water and returns it dirty. It takes a landscape and leaves it diminished. The founders of Nekupe were not interested in that...
by Nekupe | May 20, 2026 | Nature & Wildlife, Nekupe Experiences
The Story of the Oropendola Nests at Nekupe At Nekupe, where the winds sing through the trees and the sunlight filters through the branches, ancient colonies shine with golden flashes in the canopy of a majestic Guanacaste tree. These flashes are neither leaves nor...
