Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica Travel Blogs

Welcome to the jungle. It's this way! No that way!
Dec 22, 2004 (31 photos)

... make it down here. Mainly due to it's distance from the capital I would think. The whole Osa peninsula and the Corcovado National Park is however absolutely amazing. It's supposed to be the second most bio-diverse place on earth, after the Amazon. And ...

Spare the Soggy Shoes
May 13, 2006

A few hours later past the crazy spider monkey, we came upon our second river crossing. Making our way through the shallow stream, we settled our packs on the other side and sat down to catch our breath and have a snack. Have you heard the story of ...

Of Peanuts and Goblins
May 14, 2006

Squirrel Monkeys seem to be extremely social. They're no bigger than a cat, and their round heads are perfectly proportioned to their bodies. Their eyes are round and bright, and their button noses give them a comical "peanuts" sort of a look. They cling ...

Puckered Lips and Wrinkled Brows
May 13, 2006

A little over 5 kilometers into our hike, we heard something that sounded like cantaloupes being thrown from the treetops. With a short pause and a look around we discovered that it was a family of white faced capuchin monkeys heading off in the opposite ...

In the Heart of the Jungle
May 13, 2006

In the heart of the jungle, the trees soar to dizzying heights above your head and create a canopy of filtered sunlight. Their trunks grow down, thick and ancient, deep into the soggy mud, with gnarled roots and knotted appendages twisting their way ...

The Jungle Book
May 13, 2006

... innocently gathering nuts and beans. But it was just the others coming back from their romp in the wilderness in search of exotic wildlife. So we stretched out our legs, strapped on our packs, and headed out, pushing further into the heart of Corcovado.

That Monkey was Crazy!
May 13, 2006

Spider monkeys are oddly threatening in a fuzzy kind of a way. Their dark brown fur is tinged with a rusty orange hue. They hang from tree limbs with dark, naked palms and, when emboldened, their brown leathery faces contort into menacing grimaces. The ...

Corcovado - Einsame Straende und Natur pur
Mar 16, 2008 (5 photos)

... eine geführte Wanderung mit dem Fuehrer Gabriel. Der Beach entlang (unter bereits heisser Sonne!) ging's zum Corcovado Nationalpark. Der Park ist ein Regenwald, der von Mangroven bewachsen ist und eine grosse Anzahl von Tier- und Pflanzenarten hat ...

Wildlife Trails around Sirena Ranger Station
Feb 8, 2009 (5 photos)

Rano jsme byli probuzeni vychodem slunce, ktery udelal z naseho stanu finskou saunu, takze jsme rychle utikali do stinu. Behem dne jsme si prosli ruzne cesty dzungli i podel more, ktere nabizeji moznost videt ruzne druhy zvirat - krokodyli, male zraloky, ...

so much to catch up on..
Jul 11, 2008

... Jimenez, which is in the Southern region of Costa Rica called the Osa Peninsula and is right on the edge of Corcavado National Park. We spent a challeging two days at the Corcavado National Park. The road to park ends two and a half miles before you ...

Dia 13. Bahia Drake - Corcovado
Sep 3, 2009

*** PLANING *** Excursión del dia completo al Parque Nacional Corcovado, más concretamente a la zona de La Sirena. Empieza sobre las 7:00 de la mañana y son unas 8 horas.  Hotel: Cabinas Manolo (www.cabinasmanolo.com) Precios por Noche: 15$ ...

Another Great Trail with Lots of Animals
Feb 9, 2009 (5 photos)

Vstavame v 5:01, pze nechci vstavat v hodinu, ktera zacina 4. :) Nicmene vzhledem k velkemu horku a nevysvetlitelnemu proudu mravencu prochazejicich se po mem tele ve stanu jsem se jaksi nevyspal, takze brzke vstavani je tak trochu vysvobozenim ;) Rano ...

Wildnis pur in Corcovado
Jun 21, 2009 (23 photos)

... Klopfer ueberrollt zu werden, aber unser Kapitaen scheint das nicht zum ersten Mal zu machen. Noch einmal uebernachten wir in Drake, bevor wir uns auf den Weg zum letzten Ziel unserer Reise durch Costa Rica aufmachen, dem Manuel Antonio Nationalpark.

"I'm So Over This!"
May 14, 2006

... our journey, 20 sun scorching kilometers along the peninsular coastline to Carate Town, the first rag tag settlement of civilization outside of Corcovado. But, we'd have to get to Sirena Ranger Station first, and we still had another hour or so to go. ...

Costa Rica and the Wild Corcovado
Apr 18, 2008 (51 photos)

... on the Osa Peninsula. The central jumping off point for the wild, remote, diverse and famed Corcovado National Park. Although the majority of Costa Rican tourist destinations are developed for the luxurious tourist in mind, because of its ...

Let´s Go to the Jungle in Corcovado National Park
Feb 7, 2009 (4 photos)

... jsem psal posledne, nemeli jsme rezervaci ke vstupu do narodniho parku. Nicmene jsem si nechtel tenhle ojedinely narodni park - 2. nejzomanitesi narodni park na svete co se tyce biodiverzity - ujit. Takze jsem premluvil Magnuse, ze to risknem s ohledem na ...

Wildlife watching from the balcony
Jun 7, 2009

We were awake at 5am with the howler monkeys. They{re the roosters of the jungle. Their howling is incredible, you can hear them from 5km away. Not only that but the spider monkeys drop fruit onto the roof of the building and the parrots make a right ...

Corcovado
Apr 4, 2008 (60 photos)

... days in his place cooling out and taking the provisions to visit the park, we headed in his boat to the heart of the Corcovado park, 45km away,  to the Sirena Rangers Station, is on short walks from this station between 2-3 hours where you ...

Hormigas no son nuestras amigas!!!!
Jun 2, 2008

... became really good friends with them and are hoping they will come visit in the states. The only way to describe Corcovado is Jurassic Park/Paradise!!!! The sunsets and stars were incredible. Oh and at night, without a flashlight, you cant even see your ...

Photos
Oct 16, 2006 (39 photos)

Just photos this time folks, but plenty of them. Apologies for somewhat random order

A tropical paradise
Jan 9, 2005 (4 photos)

... with the 6.00am bus to Carate and then a 3km walk down the beach to La Leona Tented Ecolodge on the edge of Corcovado National Park - our reason for coming to the difficult to access Osa Peninsula. About 50% of Costa Rica is in national parks - many ...

Corcovado
Aug 1, 2008

Corcovado

Day # 9 & Day # 10
Nov 25, 2008

... still really as it would have been years ago, very little development of any type.  Nice to see some of the real Costa Rica.  As its still not really high season there aren't many tourists about, I think we saw maybe 10 European / American faces ...

Day # 10 Part 2 "Survival Tips for Tent Camp"
Nov 25, 2008

... roar of the waves on the rocks.  The River, the constant deep crocking of the large Rainforest Frogs.   The Corcovado 2 chair method:   For some reason the tables or the chairs are not quiet the right size for each other.  As a ...

Corcovado - Capo Matapalo - Puerto Jimenez
Jun 27, 2009 (34 photos)

Als naechstes hatten wir uns die Osa Halbinsel mit dem Corcovado NP vorgenommen - eine lange Autofahrt dorthin. Leider haben wir viel Zeit mit Unterkunft suchen verbringen muessen. Vieles hatte wegen Nebensaison geschlossen, die anderen demnach dann ...

Day # 5 Travelling to Corcovado (Osa)
Nov 20, 2008

... Corcovado.  I had loads of emails trying to organise this part of the trip as most people fly down to this part of Costa Rica and we were travelling overland.  When I first managed to find someone  to do the transfer we were told it would ...

Day # 8 A Day of rest!
Nov 23, 2008

A day of rest.  All this running around in the Jungle can take it out of ya...  Washing clothes, writing emails and blog entries and doing little or nothing else.  Found a snake last night, the camp cat found it shortly afterwards and I ...

Day # 7
Nov 22, 2008

... creatures.  If and when we see more Booby's, then fear not I will update you. I feel I should give our fellow travellers in Corcovado a shout out as we have really had a great time with them.  Katy and I are here for 6 days, and to be honest, ...

Day # 6
Nov 21, 2008

... palm leaves on the sand down to the water.   Today we're heading about 40 minutes down the coast to the main Corcovado reserve and a day trekking through the jungle with our local guide Roy.   The head count today goes a little like this. & ...