Born on May 10th 1979, in the city of Puntarenas, Elier is one of four brothers and sisters.
As a little boy, it was his dream to work outdoors, he was sure that he didn’t want to work in an office. Elier was one of those boys that his mother asked to empty his pockets at the back door because she knew that insects, reptiles and seeds were sure to be stashed there. He didn’t walk around whistling, he walked around imitating bird calls.
After graduating from the Universidad Estatal de Puntarenas, Elier was an exchange student in Ellensburg, Washington. Here he had the opportunity to polish his English while working at a ski resort, he says this made a tremendous difference in his understanding of guests and greatly improved his English.
Elier has been guiding for 9 years, his special passion is tracking a specific species his guests want to see, but he loves the forest and its plants and creatures in general. His biggest thrill while roaming the forests of Monteverde was finding an ocelot with guests, an extremely rare sighting.
When he’s not interpreting the Cloud Forest with his guests, Elier enjoys playing soccer, swimming and spending time with his wife Alicia and his children Christian and Kendra.
