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El Remanso: The Best Seat in the Rainforest

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The Roads Less Driven: An Osa Peninsula Journey


4736779401 bae3cd82b41 El Remanso: The Best Seat in the RainforestDuring our one full day in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula, we found ourselves in cushioned chairs on a wooden deck that sits 20 feet above the ground, surrounded by a primary rainforest and perched atop a long, long slope to a wild and empty stretch of Pacific Ocean coastline.

The air felt soft and damp, and every few hours it would rain. Awhirr with clicking and buzzing and flitting and rustling, these trees were the highway for a whole kingdom of creatures.

This was a wildlife lodge called El Remanso, and we dearly wish we were still there.

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The Roads Less Driven: An Osa Peninsula Journey

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The road to Carate on Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula
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The road to Carate on Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula

Ever been to a far-flung place that makes you wish you had much more time to explore, partially because it’s an odyssey just to get there? Well, for us, the latest corner of the Earth to make that list is Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula.

The fact we had only two days down in this wild, unspoiled, gorgeous swath of jungly coastline could be considered criminal.

But then, so could the freakin’ potholes.

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Western Costa Rica: Anatomy of a Vacation

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Osa Peninsula road from Puerto Jimenez to Carete and Corcovado

When Adam’s cousin Minona invited us to her wedding on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, Adam and I clapped a high-five heard ’round the U.S.

We figured that she and her then-fiancee Peter’s far-flung choice of location was a clever ploy to pare down their guest list, but it soon became clear: although the happy couple lives  in New York City and their loved ones are spread from California to Massachusetts, only a scant few invites would come back with regrets.

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