Peninsula de Osa

Peninsula de Osa and the Corcovado National Park was labeled by National Geographic as "the most biologically intense place on earth". It is very remote and inaccessible and therefore it offers a real abundance of pristine and untouched wilderness.

To get to our accommodation we had to leave our rental car behind and catch a boat. The boat took us through mangrove forests and out onto the ocean before it followed the coast line past a few settlements. At the end we arrived at a remote black sand beach with a simple but beautiful little resort called Poor Mans Paradise.

We spent the next two days hiking through the jungle trying to spot different kinds of wildlife. We took a small boat to the Corcovado National park. As the boat pulled up on the beach, a crocodile made her way into the water for her morning swim. Then and there we decided we would not go swimming in the ocean anymore.

On the second day we swam about a kilometer down a stream with dense jungle on both sides. We thought that it would be a boat tour but it turned out that the water was too shallow and after 10 minutes we had to swim instead. We were both a bit unprepared and had to swim through the jungle in our underwear.