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Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Puntarenas » Osa Peninsula » Puerto Jimenez February 6th 2010

Our final Costa Rica stop is the OSA Peninsula where we spent a week at the Iguana Lodge on the Golfo Dolce, a tropical fiord. Who knew there were tropical fiords. We always thought they were only in Scandinavian countries. I am sure a fiord, by any other name, does not have accommodations like Iguana Lodge. Lauren and Toby, owners of Iguana, were great hosts and have created a new high water mark for the hospitality industry. They were friendly and professional and complimented by the wonderful staff they employed: Giovanni, Vladimir, Sydner, Maxine, Andre, Marti an a few others. We stayed in one of their casitas, a screened tree house 12 feet off the ground surrounded by the tropical foliage of the Osa. Waking up to the screeching Macaw and howler monkeys with the pounding ... read more

Puerto Jimenez

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Puntarenas » Osa Peninsula » Puerto Jimenez October 7th 2009

view from my porch

carriemcq

By this time I was feeling dirty and in need of a splurge so we rented a nice (5star standard to us) little room which was CLEAN (thank the heavens), and had a porch steps away from the sea. We watched the sunset over wine and guitar. The second day Dana went surfing and I had the day to myself to work on my residency applications, swim in the pool and go for a 2 hour kayak through the mangroves. A man was cutting down coconuts and with them down came a fer-de-lance, a deadly snake. No one was harmed but I did get a cool photo! ... read more

Arrival at a special ecolodge

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Puntarenas » Osa Peninsula » Puerto Jimenez August 21st 2009

Our plane

RaeDan

My scariest flight ever We made it to the small airport on time for check-in and managed to find ourselves seats in the 2nd row of the small twin engine plane that was to fly us to Puerto Jimenez. Luckily the plane was not full, as the dress took up 2 seats in the first row directly in front of us. It is the smallest plane that I have ever been on and Dan hadn't help calm my nerves by stating that it is best that we die if the plane crashes, as we wouldn't want to survive a crash all mangled! The take-off was fine, but upon our ascent every bump or slight drop had me cursing and grabbing onto Dan's arm for dear life. Fortunately, the noise of the engines was loud enough for ... read more

Herrera Garden start of the living Tree Art Trail

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Puntarenas » Osa Peninsula » Puerto Jimenez April 5th 2009

Tom Kayak

So we have had just a wonderful Group of Volunteers at the Herrera Botanical Gardens & Conservation Project. Today I ad them doing something new, A Living Tree Art Trail - I want to make trees you can walk up into, and turn trees into pieces of art along the trails, it should get very interesting in a few years, a long term project for sure, but who cares, it is a blast to do. Going to start a little nursery in town to help support the gardens and to gaurd Don Bluas's house, a win win for us. I just posted at craiglists, should be interesting to see how fast I can get someone. So we have about 15 km in forested trails all cleared, the crew has been kicking it lately, very happy with ... read more

Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Puntarenas » Osa Peninsula » Puerto Jimenez December 25th 2008

Costa Rica sign on road

AlanOK

I decided to spend more time in Nicaragua and sacrifice the pricier Costa Rica and Panama. The bus from the Costa Rican border to San Juan (CR capital) got me into the city at the dreaded after dark slot. I tend to favour night buses as you save one night´s accomodation and get into the city... read more

Gringos and locals in Dos Brazos having a Xmas Eve BBQ on a small island by the Rio Tigre

From downpours to downtown San Fran

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Puntarenas » Osa Peninsula » Puerto Jimenez December 3rd 2008

A view out of our pick-up truck in Osa

Lisa and Dave

Rain, rain go away, come again some other day! Well, it´s finally hit us. The unseasonable torrential downpours which other travellers have been warning us about for weeks during our travels in CR and Nica have finally hit us too. Our plan for our remaining 10 days in CR was the Osa Peninsula and Carribean Coast but torrential rain in these areas (theoretically it´s now the dry season!) has caused such severe flooding, it´s virtually impossible to travel around there. We made it down to Puerto Jimenez in the Osa Peninsula, one of the most remote and unvisited areas of CR (and supposedly one of the best!) and organised ourselves a little independent 3-day hike, bought mosquito nets, 50 bucks worth of food, the whole shebang. There was torrential rain literally all night before we were ... read more

These crabs look like they're from a cartoon! We saw hundreds on the Pacific Coast

Corcovado

Central America Caribbean » Costa Rica » Puntarenas » Osa Peninsula » Puerto Jimenez April 28th 2008

View from Hammock

Brad of the Jungle

And into the jungle we go! Corcovado Park is in the Osa Peninsula on the far southwest of Costa Rica. Not many tourists bother to go to this park as it requires a fair amount of difficult travel. This is good news for hearty explorers like us as it leaves the animals and vistas in pure form. We did take 1 pretty serious shortcut in that we took a small plane into Puerto Jimenez. This allowed us to skip an 11 hour bus ride from San Jose. We didn´t feel too bad about this cheat considering the piles of effort that is to come. This pricey specialized flight was full of well dressed locals. I wondered what sort of affairs they were involved in that brought them to this far flung town. The small plane voyage ... read more

The pickup truck ride to the edge of the park

Brief history of Costa Rica

Costa Rica is a Central American success story: since the late 19th century, only two brief periods of violence have marred its democratic development. Although still a largely agricultural country, it has expanded its economy to include strong techn...more history

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