Jinotega is one of Nicaragua’s largest, rural and poor provinces. The capital of the province, the city of Jinotega shows a fair amount of wealth thanks to being a commercial center for the sprawling coffee plantations that mark Jinotega´s interior. Aside from a decent hotel choice in Jinotega city, the most interesting Jinotega hotel options are on those coffee plantations, in particular the shade coffee plantation of La Bastilla on the frontier of the beautiful Datanlí Nature Reserve and the private nature reserve at the El Jaguar organic coffee plantation and cloud forest. Both aforementioned coffee plantations are excellent places for bird watching and cultural tours of the region can be done using the Hotel El Café in the city of Jinotega.