Description
Casa Corcovado Jungle Lodge is located in a 170-acre private reserve bordering Corcovado National Park, and is cooled by breezes from the Pacific Ocean. This unique lodge was carefully designed and built by an American naturalist with twenty years of local experience, and offers the closest accommodation to Corcovado National Park. Thirteen separate ecosystems provide some of the most biodiverse lowland rainforest in the world and boasts numerous species of trees, birds and mammals. National Geographic has called it "the most biologically intense place on earth".
Accommodation consists of ten comfortable individual bungalows set into the jungle. The bungalows are built with the conservation of nature in mind and have been built in harmony with the surrounding landscape and environment; they come complete with tiled floors, hot showers, ceiling fans and hammocks. There is a restaurant, swimming pool and a bar surrounded by virgin rainforest and fruit tress attracting all sorts of fauna so its perfect for birdwatching.
One of the main beauty of Casa Corcovado is its location, one day you can be hiking through the jungle, discovering species of birds, animals or reptiles, learning about the local flora and even the walking trees, and the next you can be snorkeling in the ocean amongst a whole array of aquatic life including dolphins.
Accommodation
Casa Corcovado Jungle Lodge features 4 honeymoon suites, 4 junior suites and 6 deluxe bungalows. Suites feature queen size beds elegantly draped with mosquito nets and hot-water showers. Design details include wood beamed ceilings and shutters made by Costa Rican artisans.
Childcare
Children are welcomed but there are no specific facilities.
Facilities
Facilities at Casa Corcovado Jungle Lodge include a restaurant, Margarita Sunset Point, tropical sand beach, spring-fed swimming pool hidden in the forest, "El Solar" swimming pool with sunbathing areas, rainforest conference centre, and Bar "El Bosque" surrounded by virgin rainforest and fruit trees.
Activities
Activities at the lodge involve hiking in the Corcovado Nationla Park, snorkelling in the nearby coral reef, fishing for roosterfish in the teaming waters of Cano Island, birdwatching, horseback riding, scuba diving, sea kayaking and rainforest tours.
When to travel
From May to December it's the 'green season' when it rains more than the rest of the year, it can sometimes rain for 3 days in a row. However, this is rainforest and walking in the rain doesn't ruin the experience. October is the wettest month, the creeks rise and roads can be impassable. January to April are the drier months, when it’s idyllic here. The busiest time of year is the second half of December, when you need to book well in advance.
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Location and directions
Corcovado NP, Costa Rica
Located on the Osa Peninsula in southwestern Costa Rica, near the Corcovado National Park, the last remaining Pacific lowland rainforest of sustainable size in Central America.
How to get there
15 hour international flight (via Miami) to San Jose Juan Santamaria International. From San Jose it's then a 40 minute domestic flight to Palmar Sur, where you will be met by a bus and guide who will accompany you to “La Hacienda”, in Sierpe, about a 20 minute ride. Following that, you will embark on a 1.5 hour boat-ride down the Sierpe River and then will follow the Pacific coast until you arrive at the Hotel.
