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Property of the week: Villa Perezoso Luxury Vacation Rental House in Manuel Antonio beach Costa Rica
Villa Perezoso is an exotic family vacation in Costa Rica with comfort and style that truly exceed your expectations. This stunning, 4 level, 5 bedroom villa is the perfect setting for a large group to enjoy an unforgettable experience together.
The Master suite counts with a King size bed, full bath, private deck, living area and a small meditation area looking out into the jungle. The other 2 suites on this level have a King size bed in one room and 2 full beds in the other, also they both have their own private decks as well as full baths that open out with ocean views. Each bedroom also has a flat screen TV, air conditioning, wireless internet connection, closet and a safe.
Capturing the essence of Balinese living, the upper level features a large living room and dining room, gourmet kitchen, a large full bathroom and an entertainment room equipped with a 42″ plasma TV and DVD player and stereo. The large, wrap-around terrace has a plunge pool; cushioned Balinese teak lounge chairs and accommodates outdoor dining. With furnishings and accessories imported from Bali and designed specifically for the house, casa perezoso quietly exudes an air of elegance, warmth and comfort.
The penthouse, occupying the top two floors, opens to a spacious private sun terrace — the perfect place to soak up a gorgeous sunset, gaze at the stars or relax in a Jacuzzi spa. The penthouse is designed for the utmost in comfortable lounging and is equipped with wireless internet access. The main level below has 2 suites, 1 with a King size bed and the other with a Queen Size bed. Both bedrooms offer magnificent ocean views, overlooking Manuel Antonio National Park and its deep blue bay, as do the open air living room and gourmet kitchen. Each suite is equipped with its own flat screen TV.
The Penthouse has ceiling fans throughout and views that leave you breathless, to one side; the endless ocean stretches out to the horizon, to the other, the outlying jungle. To experience the bird’s eye view, move right up the circular staircase leading up to a spectacular loft on the upper level of the penthouse is a 360-degree view; just the right place to capture the essence of Manuel Antonio.
The Villa sleeps up to twelve (children age 12 and above are welcome). The Villa and The Penthouse may be may be rented separately, The Villa accommodates up to 8, and THE Penthouse up to 4.
Property of the week: Casa Miramar Luxury Vacation Rental House in Manuel Antonio beach Costa Rica
CASA MIRAMAR Luxury Vacation Rental House in Manuel Antonio beach Costa Rica is a newly built 4 story villa with a total 7 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms, 8 queen-size beds, and 3 fully equipped kitchens making it the perfect Costa Rica vacation rental for very large groups or friends and family wishing to be close, but still having lots of space for privacy. Level 1 consists of secure parking for up to 8 vehicles, the pool, and a self contained suite with two Queen Bedrooms and a smaller kitchen and living room area.
Level 2 has 2 Queen bedrooms, both with private bathrooms. In addition to this it has a full kitchen, and a large dining/living room area with a wonderful 180 degree ocean view. It also has laundry facility and a lawn and garden area with the same spectacular views. Levels 3 and 4 combine to make an exceptional 3 bedroom unit.
Level 3 is comprised of a full kitchen, laundry area and large dining /living room offering 180 degree views of the Pacific ocean and spectacular evening sunsets. Again there are 2 bedrooms with private bathrooms, one with a Queen bed and Jacuzzi tub, and the other with 2 Queen.
Level 4 of this unit is the master suite with a single Queen bedroom surrounded by a huge roof top terrace offering 360 degree views on the mountains, rain forest and the ocean. This roof top terrace also has a large tiled hot tub.
This vacation villa in Costa Rica was recently constructed by one of the area’s top builders and incorporates beautiful teak and mahogany floors and woodwork together with tile work. This stunning villa is located on one of the highest points in Manuel Antonio, and just a few meters from the main road between Quepos and Manuel Antonio National Park. It will house 16 people comfortably and offers some of the areas most dramatic views with a convenient and central location.
With easy access to the famous beaches, restaurants, fishing, and all other activities of this area this is an idyllic spot to spend your valuable vacation time. You may often find that a family of Tiki monkeys is sharing the patio with you. To enjoy the best that Costa Rica vacation rentals have to offer consider Casa Miramar or one of our other luxury villas at Luxury Vacation Rentals Costa Rica.
Property of the week: Bisanze villa at Manuel Antonio beach
Bisanze villa at Manuel Antonio beach
This spectacular penthouse, located in the Shana Resort and Spa is a fantastic place for you to get away from it all without leaving the comfort of the modern world. This 2500sqft counts with 3 bedrooms; 2 master suites and one guest bedroom. Each master suite has a king size bed private bathroom and walk in closet. The guest bedroom counts with a queen size bed; bathroom and walk in closet
All rooms have their own private furnished balconies and spectacular ocean view. The living area is furnished with leather sofas and glass tables for your comfort. Also a well equipped kitchen, which is always welcome for those guests with a flair for the culinary arts.
Just a 5 minute stroll from Bisanze Beach, one of the locals best kept secrets of Manuel Antonio, white sand, melow waves no rip tides, perfect for snorkeling and relaxing. From the penthouse it takes about 30 minutes to walk to the Manuel Antonio National Park and the whole way its lush jungle and ocean views.
You also have access to the Restaurant, bar, pool and jacuzzi of the resort just 20 paces from your location.
For further information please contact us and let us help you set up your vacation!
Top 5 Popular Places to visit in Costa Rica
Costa Rica, one of the most popular tourist destinations of the world is located in Central America. It offers lush green forest, beautiful beaches, volcanoes, and wide varieties of flora and fauna.This place is filled with endless attractions and natural beauty.
Are you planning for Costa Rica vacation, here are our top 5 popular places to visit in Costa Rica for you:
All at one place, the rain forest, the beaches, lagoons, mangroves and the coral reefs, you will find all of these at Manuel Antonio National Park. It is one of the most visited park in Costa Rica. The beaches looks amazing surrounded by beautiful lush green rain forest. It is a great spot for snorkeling as well. It is a small national park established in only 628 hectare area but it is home to 109 species of mammals and 184 species of birds. The park attracts around 150,000 visitors per year.
One of the great way to enjoy the park and it’s amazing vistas is to take a hike. There are guided tours available. You can book the guided tours from any of hotels you will be staying. The Punta Cathedral on the trail offers one of the most beautiful view. You will also get a chance to see white-faced monkeys and rare squirrel monkeys.
Arenal Volcano National Park is a must see places of Costa Rica. It is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. There are hiking trails here on the already hardened fields of lava where you can see the mighty force of nature from so close. There are guided tours available for such hiking trails and hot springs. While other ways people can enjoy the park is by taking the most famous Sky Tram Canopy Tour.
Rincon de La Vieja National Park
Rincon de La Vieja National Park is the protected National park in Costa Rica with a very diverse ecosystem. It is popularly known for its wide variety of flora and fauna. It is also home to 2 volcanoes namely the Rincon de la Vieja and the Santa Maria. There are 6 different volcanic peaks in the park and 32 rivers and streams. It is a great place for the adventure lovers. There are waterfalls where you can swim around, warm mud pools, spectacular place for nature photography, a fresh water volcanic lagoons, and trails where you can hike all day long and enjoy the park.
Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is a very popular destination in Costa Rica. The unique thing about this place is its cloud canopy after which it has got its name. The Reserve is located just 6 km from town of Santa Elena in the Puntarenas province. It is one of the most breathtaking reserves of the world. The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve receives very less rain compared to that of the rain forest, however because of the unique cloud contents, it has very high humidity.
There are several trails available throughout the reserve, you can spend days of hiking with a guide in group or as single. The trails offers amazing views of the spectacular Forest Reserve. Throughout the trail you can enjoy beautiful waterfalls, swamp areas, and other attractions.
Well, the most adventurous thing about the Tortuguero National Park is that it can be reached only through water on boat or by air. The park has a nesting grounds for Hawksbill, leatherback and green sea turtles, etc. The turtles are the main attraction of the Tortuguero National Park. There are several marked trails where you can go for a hike but you have to watch for the nesting grounds on the way. One of the best way to explore the park is by boat. Don’t worry, there are many places from where you can rent kayaks and canoes.
Jaguar Rescue center
A group of baby and adolescent howler monkeys swing around the jungle canopy with an easy agility that would make even the most accomplished trapeze artist shuffle his feet and feel envious enough to consider hanging up his cape. For the monkeys, the acrobatics are no more than part of their recreation, a game of tag in which they hang from their tails and playfully chomp at each other’s tender bits.
These monkeys are all orphans, and have been lucky enough to find a home at the Jaguar Rescue Center, in the leafy paradise of Playa Chiquita on the southern Caribbean coast. The few hours they spend in the forest each day are known as “Monkey School” and are part of the wildlife rescue center’s program to gradually reintroduce the energetic animals into their natural habitat.
When the monkeys aren’t in the forest learning to live in the wild, they spend their time eating, pulling on each other’s ears and dozing, all in the comfort and safety of a spacious cage back at the center. They have neighbors, too. The Jaguar Rescue Center is home to a variety of animals in various stages of health. There are birds with clipped wings, squinty-eyed possums nursing machete wounds, a mischievous coati and a baby deer named Xai that follows its caretakers and licks the backs of their legs, happy to find anything salty. There are terrariums full of vipers, and a baby porcupine whose quills make his inquisitive, friendly tendencies pointed indeed.
The owners are the husband-and-wife team of Sandro Alviani, an Italian herpetologist, and Encar García, a Spanish primatologist, who live onsite. They run the center with indispensable help from several full-time employees – most of them locals, all of them animal lovers – and an ever-shifting slew of eager volunteers from all over the globe.
Tired of working in the commercial world of European zoos, the couple found themselves spending more and more time in Costa Rica, and seven years ago they relocated permanently. As their neighbors in Playa Chiquita got to know them, they took note of Alviani and García’s specialized skills and started bringing them animals that needed expert care. Over the course of their first four years in the country, Alviani and García had amassed so many injured, sick and orphaned animals that in 2008 they decided to make their pastime official and open the Jaguar Rescue Center, complete with guided tours for the intrigued public.
“I think the Jaguar Rescue Center was born from this community’s need for a place to take injured animals,” García says.
Electric cables, dogs and cars pose a severe threat to the region’s wildlife, as do people who want to keep wild animals as pets – animals kept as pets are often diseased and malnourished – or illegally sell them to international collectors. García says Costa Rica’s laws regarding wildlife are adequate and that the police are willing to enforce them but lack the proper training and equipment to do so. The authorities in the area regularly confiscate captive animals, and they call on Alviani and García’s expertise when doing so.
The only way the police can know that animals are being kept illegally is for concerned citizens to call and report their neighbors. García notes that people are often hesitant to call, worried that their neighbors will receive harsh punishment or be angry with them for reporting them to the police.
“In reality, it’s not a big deal. You don’t even have to say your name or anything, only that your neighbor has an animal in inhumane conditions,” she says.
For a first offense, the lawbreaker doesn’t even receive a citation, but repeat offenders risk a sentence of up to three years in jail, García adds.
García tells the story of one white-faced capuchin monkey that was kept for four years in a tiny cage in a mechanic’s shop in the nearby town of Bribrí.
“[The monkey] was going crazy because of all the noise, pulling his own hair out,” she says.
His captors never once cleaned his cage, and by the time Alviani and García went with the police to retrieve the monkey, he was highly aggressive. The couple worked with the monkey for months and nursed him back to health. The monkey was finally accepted by a group of wild capuchins.
This is one success story out of more than 400 in which Alviani and García have played a crucial role over the past seven years. They have accomplished much, including the reintroduction of a one-armed kinkajou and the adoption of a baby howler monkey by a reintroduced female that was not its birth mother – a feat formerly unheard of in the world of wildlife rescue centers, García says.
The primatologist knows that psychology plays a major role in successful reintroduction, and that each animal has individual fears based on the unique traumas it has experienced.
“The reintroduction process is different for every species, but also for every individual,” she says. “You’d think that once you find the formula to reintroduce toucans, for example, that all toucans will be the same, but no. You run into surprises, and this is what is so marvelous. Every toucan has its own personality.”
Life at the Jaguar Rescue Center is hectic, and the needs of the animals demand a full schedule with little time for vacations or rest. Just when García and Alviani are dressed, for once, in clothes that aren’t covered in monkey urine and are ready to leave and meet friends for dinner, someone will call to inform the couple that a sloth has been hit by a car or a boa constrictor is winding through their kitchen.
“Sometimes I wonder why I didn’t open a restaurant like everybody else,” García says. “But I think I am very lucky because I get to do what I like to do, so for me it really isn’t a huge sacrifice.”
The Costa Rican government provides no subsidization for the rescue center. All of the money the center needs for animal housing structures, expensive surgeries and medications, and the costs of day-to-day operations comes from tourist entrance fees and private donations. This means that, in addition to contact with the volunteers and workers who look after them, the animals are around tourists every day.
Although it is easy to rationalize that the Jaguar Rescue Center provides a good simulation of animals’ life in nature – they eat as they would or better than they would in the wild and get to climb around in the trees – the truth is that it is not nature at all. Some of the most damaged animals will never be able to return to the wild. Even for the animals that will someday be healthy enough to reclaim their lives in the forest, living for so long surrounded by humans affects them in a profound way.
Perhaps the most difficult part of Alviani and García’s job is finding the balance between humans and animals to provide for the animals’ greatest good. Although some wildlife biologists oppose any and all human interaction with animals, the owners of the Jaguar Rescue Center belong to the opposite camp. García compares baby animals to human babies.
“Contact isn’t a bad thing. Every animal, like every child, needs a different level of affection,” she says.
According to García, a monkey that has had someone to pay attention to it and hold it, like its mother would have done in the wild, will be happy and self-confident, and ultimately more easily reintroduced.
Going There
The Jaguar Rescue Center is in Playa Chiquita, about 6 km south of the beach town of Puerto Viejo on the southern Caribbean coast. Tours are given Monday through Saturday at 9:30 and 11:30 a.m., and cost $15 per person.
For those interested in volunteering, the center requires a minimum commitment of three weeks. Those who aren’t afraid to get dirt, and other gross stuff, under their fingernails can apply for a volunteer position via the center’s website.
Donations may also be made through the center’s website; eager donors can “adopt” any number of cute baby animals that need help. For more information, go to http://www.jaguarrescue.com or call 2750-0710.
note: from Tico Times
Top Beaches in Costa Rica
Jaco: In less than a two hour drive from San Jose is the surfer and sports fishing city of Jaco. Jaco has become somewhat the Pacific hub of Costa Rica beach travel. Most known for it 24/7 entertainment with its casinos, discos, bars, adult activity and international dinning, it flourishes and keeps the locals very happy with the tourist bucks. Unlike, Playa Tamarindo it caters to the low budgeted in accommodations and amenities. Jaco is one rip roaring town.
Manuel Antonio: just another example of one of Costa Rica’s most awesome beaches. Now think about his, walking along bays flanked by ivory sands, emerald waters, and jungles where you can hear and see waterfalls. Drop the Imperial for a few hours – put on a set of fins and face mask and enjoy the sea life. Oh yes, you can also zip line, hike and paddle a kayak, all in one day.
Corcovado: In the Osa Peninsula. Its beaches are ripped with brown sands that are shielded by palm trees. Inland is one of Costa Rica’s eco-zones the Corcovado National Park, which has some of the coolest wildlife in the world. One of the highlights is to take a charter boat ride to Isla del Caño, a diver’s paradise and a archaeological dream to see the Island’s pre-Colombian stone spheres. It has been established as a protected national park, with a permanent ranger station on the island. Marine life includes manta rays, dolphins, sea turtles, whales, and a wide variety of tropical-colored fish.
Tambor: at one time was inhabited by whales, and since, replaced by travelers. Lazy-arched bays calm the swells and make the waters glassy, a perfect spot to swim, snorkel, scuba drive, and pinch sand between the toes when taking a sunset walk. Inland you can horseback ride, take a hike, and/or enjoy the quite lifestyle.
Conchal: Located at Nicoya Peninsula – Costa Rica’s largest peninsula (Northern and Southern part) has so many strips of sand; it is truly on one the top beaches in the world. Tourist packed beach cities like Montezuma, Tamarindo, Conchal (pictured on the left) and Mal Pais – to those more remote and relaxing like Playas Hermosa, Samara, Flamingo, Conchal and Playa Grande, lets Nicoya claim ego to its beauty.
Tamarindo: The Mecca of tourism. Lots of dining, bars, shopping, lodging, surfing, diving and other activities you may want to do. Tamarindo’s natural settings will make you forget all the stress you have been carrying! Tamarindo surrounding beaches are the home to the giant leatherback turtles (and others) where they annually climb up the beaches to lay their eggs.
Mal Pais: If you’re not a surfer or sun guru, Mal Pais may not be the beach for you. This is the place where you would be swapping stories about how “Cool I got tubed” However, all it not lost if you don’t like drinking ice cold Imperials while catching a few sun rays. It does have it nature-worshiping areas, which makes this place worthwhile to visit. You can get on a boat tour and take a gander at the areas protected waters. Or jump from the Montezuma waterfalls into crystal clear waters. Or if you are savvy, take the three hour walk through the awesome Cabo Blanco Nature Reserve where you will end up on some isolated beach. Take a mate, and have some fun.
Punta Uva and Montezuma: Located is what many say, “The heart and soul of the Nicoya Peninsula.” Montezuma has become a curious stop of tourists who are enchanted by the beaches’ array of locals. From the braided hair of Rastafarians, to sun scared surfers, to punkers (with all their tattoos and piercing), add to the unique characteristics of this haven. Nature comes together with tall coconut palms lining the shore, waterfalls and the Manzanillo beach bind angered and Scarlet Macaw squawking at jungle tree-tops.
Tortuguero: Blunty putting it, Toruguero on Costa Rica’s Caribbean side is an eco-junkie paradise. With over 20 endangered species in the Tortuguero National Park, eco-junkies are in heaven with its tapirs, ocelots, manatees, and green sea turtles. Tours range from, taking a solo hike or go with a well informed guided safari, or you can be adventurous by paddling up the river in a dugout canoe. Oh yes, you can also sunbath on one of it beaches.
South of Limon: Like Corcovado, South of Limon, has the Cahuita National Park and Manzanillo just two more eco-zone that Costa Rica sports. It is not uncommon to hear monkey chatter and see them swinging in the trees. South of Limon takes on the personally of a kick-back Jamaican lifestyle with the beaches to match. Now head toward Panama and you run into the town of Puerto Viejo. This is probably best known for its mesmerizing sunsets.
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