Costa Rica jungle accommodation
| country: | Costa Rica |
| location: | Osa Peninsula |
| price: | From US $665 per person per week, including meals, hikes and entrance fees. |
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description
This community based tourism project lies in the lush Pacific lowland tropical rain forest of the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica and stretches nearly 150 acres inland from the sea. It is proud to be home to a wide array of rare and endangered flora and fauna. We offer Neotropical Ecology courses throughout the year for individuals, family groups and students of all ages.
This is a remote reserve. Access is by boat, transportation around the reserve is by foot, and climate control is a nice breeze. There are no distractions (TVs, telephones) in your rustic jungle hideaway. Fast food here means grabbing a ripe fruit or fishing off the rocky point. Traffic delays mean waiting for the high tide or calm seas.
Warm days, warm rain, and warm surf on a secluded tropical beach are complimented by cool waterfalls, cool showers, and cool nights. The perfect place to go hiking in the lush tropical rain forest, take walks for bird watching exotic species, see schools of brilliantly coloured fish, and enjoy spectacular sunsets.
6 nights of lodging with 3 hearty meals a day All-day hike to Corcovado National Park, all-day trip to Isla del Caño Tour through Sierpe-Terraba Mangrove reserve Entrance fees Hikes through and activities within the Biological Station Access to facilities including library, sea kayaks, orchid garden Camp educational program and materials
We can also offer sea kayaking, scuba diving, snorkeling, swimming, dolphin & whale watching, horse back riding, guided hiking, night hikes, hike to bat cave, bird watching and visits to the local school.
This is a remote reserve. Access is by boat, transportation around the reserve is by foot, and climate control is a nice breeze. There are no distractions (TVs, telephones) in your rustic jungle hideaway. Fast food here means grabbing a ripe fruit or fishing off the rocky point. Traffic delays mean waiting for the high tide or calm seas.
Warm days, warm rain, and warm surf on a secluded tropical beach are complimented by cool waterfalls, cool showers, and cool nights. The perfect place to go hiking in the lush tropical rain forest, take walks for bird watching exotic species, see schools of brilliantly coloured fish, and enjoy spectacular sunsets.
special things to do and see here
Package includes:We can also offer sea kayaking, scuba diving, snorkeling, swimming, dolphin & whale watching, horse back riding, guided hiking, night hikes, hike to bat cave, bird watching and visits to the local school.
travellers' tales
To me the most memorable was being away from it all. The solitude is incredible as is the flora and fauna. (more)
rooms, food and facilities
We have 5 private cabins and a field station with 6 bunk rooms. Facilities include cold running water, tiled bathrooms and showers, olar panels for basic electricity, clothes washing sinks, student lab tables, scientific equipment, a library and cellular phone for critical communication with the outside world.
This is a remote station where good physical condition is important. If you have a serious medical problem and/or limitation, you should seriously consider your proposed visit. Because a significant amount of travel time is spent on the water, we do ask that all visitors be able to swim
Access to the Biological Station is generally by sea, departing from Sierpe, the closest town with all-weather roads. A representative will meet you at Sierpe at the designated place and time, according to the tides, to transport you down the Sierpe river, through the largest mangrove forest in Central America, out to the ocean and down the coast to our protected cove.
Once there, everyone hops out into the warm surf to help carry the cargo to the field station and/or tent cabin, a short walk up the beach. There are no roads, no docks, and no traffic.
Travel to and from Sierpe from San José, Costa Rica by plane, taxi, rental vehicle, or chartered or public bus. The San José office staff can assist you in making reservations to and from Sierpe, or you can sign up for one of our packages which include transport to and from San José.
This is a remote station where good physical condition is important. If you have a serious medical problem and/or limitation, you should seriously consider your proposed visit. Because a significant amount of travel time is spent on the water, we do ask that all visitors be able to swim
how to find us
Access to the Biological Station is generally by sea, departing from Sierpe, the closest town with all-weather roads. A representative will meet you at Sierpe at the designated place and time, according to the tides, to transport you down the Sierpe river, through the largest mangrove forest in Central America, out to the ocean and down the coast to our protected cove. Once there, everyone hops out into the warm surf to help carry the cargo to the field station and/or tent cabin, a short walk up the beach. There are no roads, no docks, and no traffic.
Travel to and from Sierpe from San José, Costa Rica by plane, taxi, rental vehicle, or chartered or public bus. The San José office staff can assist you in making reservations to and from Sierpe, or you can sign up for one of our packages which include transport to and from San José.
how this holiday makes a difference
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We make a difference by helping the local school. The school, with just one teacher, is located on the beach, has no electricity, and has few materials. The project and its visitors continually supply the school with much needed materials. Students and teachers periodically visit the school to give talks about an area of interest, such as the benefits of bats, and the school children are invited to the Biological Station for field trips and parties.
We are starting and supporting a rural library development and children’s programmes. The library in San Josecito has approximately 700 books and the library in Los Planes now has 500 books. The community of Sierpe has asked for our help in creating a library and this will be a new project for 2007. We continue to search for funds to employ a travelling librarian. We protect a tract of tropical lowland rain forest and its coastal zones in Costa Rica, maintaining the eco-systems with a minimum of human impact. International tropical ecology courses and camps are offered to university and secondary school student groups as the “intense field trip” to give first-hand experience in field studies in tropical eco-systems. National environmental education programs are run for Costa Rican students to study their tropical forests through in-country exchange programs and sponsorship by local companies.  Research and species inventories in terrestrial and marine eco-systems are carried out by national and international investigators and our volunteers. Regional involvement is in development associations and other conservation NGOs to continue conservation efforts of the Osa Peninsula. National level involvement is through the Costa Rican Network of Private Nature Reserves which supports and defends private conservation in Costa Rica and throughout the Central American Isthmus. We are expanding the Biological Station through acquiring nearby tracts of land under pressures of “development”.  This holiday is part of the responsibletravel.com and Conservation International Community Based Tourism Programme to support and promote community based tourism ventures that offer significant conservation and development benefits to local communities. To see other community based tourism holidays and find out more about the programme click here. |
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