E
very adventure has its charm, its characters, its lesson, its
imprint ... and this time it also had very particular sounds,
colors, scents and sensations: the greatness of a volcano and a
landscape full of valleys and mountains which degrade its greenery
over rivers and waterfalls that blend into the blue of the celestial
dome. Added to that, a transcendent power that is perceived as we
venture into the jungle, where spaces were once shelter to ancient
civilizations and even today they surprise us with their great structures, organization and functional capacity. We invite you to join us
through the gallery of images that illustrate this section dedicated to
those splendid "green roads" of Costa Rica, in this opportunity, we
rode along the sides of the South Pacific and through the center
region of this incredibly bio diverse Central American country which
we just begin to know.
Flights and jungle adventures at Corcovado National Park
This adventure begins its journey from the Juan Santa Maria
International Airport, with a group of journalists, photographers,
cameramen and representatives of the Costa Rican Tourism Institute
(ICT) who, together with the local guides were the best company to
guide and assist us in our mission of turning this trip into stories and
images that invite us to "Travel through Costa Rica." Our group had to
board a Nature Air aircraft; their particular size and colorful design
accentuates that you're about to go and see new places; a euphoric
anxiety becomes present to give access to this new life journey... The
expeditionary feeling makes adrenaline start its dosage as if it were
administered with a "micro drip".
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The flying time to Puerto Jimenez (Province of Puntarenas) was brief
and interesting because of the landscapes and the outstanding visibility we had from above that splendid morning. Puerto Jimenez is located in a place that could be defined as the entrance to Dulce Gulf; it
was formerly (1970’s) the center of extraction of auriferous mineral. It
currently offers various services such as financial institutions, restaurants, a hospital, hotels and supermarkets, among others; also the
small airport by which we arrived to visit the Corcovado National Park.
From there we continued our journey through roads-in a van that we
had to leave behind and hop onto “small trucks” conditioned to transport people. The other stage of the journey had, as a arrival and departure point, an even smaller track located right next to the Costa Rican
Pacific coast, on the side of the same road to Carate, a small populated place we didn’t get to visit, but after some internet research, will
be-for sure-a place where we will go sometime in the near future,
because of this fact we found on the net: “Carate is known as the best
kept secret in Costa Rica. This is the reason why not many people
come here on vacation...” And what adventurer does not like to reveal
or visit secret places...? At Playa Carate’s airdrome, located on the Osa
Peninsula, the “micro drip” feeling began all over again, but with more
intensity this time. And boy! We had more than one reason! We made
a short flight in groups of 4 people each (7 minutes approximately) up
to the Sirena Park Ranger’s Station, located at the heart of the
Corcovado National Park; Covered the distance on a small plane, a
Cessna 206, classified by the experts as the “air SUV”. After this spectacular flying experience we can only qualify with no reservation, how
appropriate this categorization is. To that quality of the aircraft, we