Arenal Secret GardenFind your escape ↗
✳ A HIDEAWAY FOR THE CURIOUSARENAL, COSTA RICA / FIELD NOTES 01
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN A PLACE & A DREAM

Curiouser.& greener.

A secret world of circular rooms.
Hidden in Arenal. Far from the ordinary.

ONE DOOR. TWO WORLDS.
✦
A NOTE FROM THE OTHER SIDE

Some doors lead to rooms.
This one leads somewhere else.

WANDER INSIDE ↘
HIDDEN BEHIND
ARENAL BACKPACKERS RESORTTHE DISCOVERY BEGINS ↓REAL ROOMS. A LITTLE REVERIE.
Let curiosity lead.
THE WORLD ON THE OTHER SIDE✧BEGINS WITH A LITTLE CURIOSITY
01 — THE DISCOVERYA PLACE APART
A secret garden of circular rooms framed by tropical leaves
Found somewhere
between the palms
& the unexpected.
A SECRET
WORLDIN THE GREEN ✳
Fig. 01 / The world beyond

A DIFFERENT KIND OF REALITY

You took
the curious
little path.

Behind Arenal Backpackers Resort, a different world is waiting. Round rooms. Winding paths. Green in every direction.

Arenal Secret Garden is for the ones who take the little path. The ones who look twice. The ones who want a stay with a story.

FOLLOW THE PATH ↗
02 — A DIFFERENT WAY TO STAYROUND BY NATURE

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.
INTO YOUR OWN LITTLE WORLD.

Dream
in a different dimension.

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Blue circular rooms with open doors surrounded by flowers
THROUGH THE ROUND DOOR
A LITTLE UNEXPECTED. ENTIRELY UNFORGETTABLE.
I.

A shape
of your own.

Distinctive cylindrical rooms with curved wooden interiors and colorful circular doors.

II.

Wake up
to the green.

A new perspective from the pillow. Open the door and let the garden become part of the room.

A LITTLE DETOUR FROM THE ORDINARYAN INTERACTIVE GARDEN

SOME SECRETS NEED A LITTLE LIGHT

Borrow the
moonlight.

Move your light through the garden.
Follow the three fireflies.
See what finds you.

MOVE YOUR LIGHT · FOLLOW A FIREFLY

A SMALL INVITATION

Let something
find you.

Three little lights. Three ways into the garden. Choose a firefly to open a window into the real Arenal Secret Garden.

An open circular room entrance in the garden

0 / 3 LITTLE WONDERS FOUND

03 — A CABINET OF CURIOSITIESREAL MOMENTS, STRANGE PERSPECTIVES

A world that
won’t sit still.

Little windows into the real garden.
Choose a circle. Look a little closer.

04 — FOLLOW THE MOON

The garden
has a
midnight side.

Follow the glow. The garden has
another story after dark.

AFTER HOURS / SAME GARDEN, ANOTHER WORLD✳

YOU’VE COME THIS FAR

Stay a little
out of this world.

Arenal Secret Garden · Costa Rica
Hidden behind Arenal Backpackers Resort.

Find your escape ↗FIND THE GARDEN ↗
The ordinary will be here when you get back.

Real property photographs, framed by imagined botanical scenery.

ARENAL SECRET GARDEN / THE PHOTO JOURNAL