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Tips for a Costa Rica Vacation: Hike Guanacaste Conservation Area and Its Three Kinds of Tropical Forest

The northern Pacific Coast of Costa Rica is often known as the "Gold Coast", one of the nation's most most popular tourism areas.

Mile after mile of wonderful beaches, blue tropical water, world famous resorts, beach hotels, and lots more.

And, home to the little-known Guanacaste Conservation Area which just turned 20.

It is a part of an extensive system of Costa Rica parks and reserves that today are set aside across 25% of the Latin America country.

Within the Conservation Area are 3 national parks---Santa Rosa, Guanacaste, and Rincon de la Vieja---as well as Junquillal Wildlife Refuge and several parcels of formerly privately held properties, all combined into a continual biological corridor that is preserving nearly two-thirds of Costa Rica's species: 230,000 different kinds of animals and plants.

Biological corridors are continual areas of habitat that connect wildlife populations that were previously cut off by human activities like roads, logging, farming , and development. They help to stabilize then reestablish wildlife populations, reduce inbreeding and increase genetic diversity.

The conservation area is divided into three sectors:

The Cacao Sector, located about 20 miles from Liberia International Airport, is characterized by steep terrain and 3 types of forest: dry tropical to cloud to rain forest. There are trails through the three kinds of forest to the summit and a biological station open to visitors between 8am to 4pm. It contains sleeping area style lodging of 4 rooms with a capacity of 32 people, 4 restrooms and 2 showers.

The Maritza Sector is found along the Continental Divide and preserves the headwaters of 6 vital rivers. It contains the Maritza Biological Station, devoted to understanding tropical streams and their watersheds. It owes its existence to a cutting edge "debt-for-nature" swap orchestrated by The Nature Conservancy, the Costa Rican government, the Stroud Foundation, and two families. Its ongoing research includes detailed studies of hydrology, biogeochemistry, organic chemistry, organic food inputs, population and community ecology, pesticide analyses and genetics.

This sector also contains lots of ancient petroglyphs.

There's a visitor center open from 8 am to 4 pm, and sleeping area style accommodations for 32 people.

The Pitilla Sector sits alongside Orosi volcano. Within it are several thousand acres of second-growth forest (1-80 years old), and about 25,000 acres of virgin cloud forest and rain forest, with scattered pastures. It is one of most species-rich sites in Costa Rica and there are about 7 miles of trails that provide access to different habitats but much of the area is essentially unexplored.

This is true rain forest which gets between 12 and 13 feet of rain between May and February.

There's a two-room dormitory at the Pitilla Biological Station containing 20 beds (expandable to about 30 by sleeping on floors) with three showers and toilets, adjacent to broad roofed porches and corridors for laboratory work and lecture room activities. There is not any electricity, but there is plenty of fresh water for showers and drinking.

To be sure, none of these sectors offer the kind of luxury of one of Costa Rica's Five Star Resorts along the Pacific but if you're willing to rough it a bit, you will find a slice of this small country that few others are fortunate enough to experience.

In a place only 1/10,000 the size of the globe lives 5% of all the world's animal and plants species. Learn more at Costa Rica Vacations Blog. And, while on a visit to the Land of Pura Vida, enjoy all its attractions including the tropical forests of its Guanacaste Conservation Area.

What Major League Baseball Players past and present would be on an All-Talkative Team?

Baseball fans make up All Slugger Teams, All Color Teams (Vida Blue, etc), All Italian Teams (Joe Dimaggio, Joe Torre, etc). Who could be on the All-Talkative or All-Chatty team? Some would include Gary Carter, Reggie Jackson, Casey Stengal as a player, Willie Mays. Who else?

C: Tim McCarver
1B: Sean Casey
2B: Joe Morgan
SS: Ozzie Guillen
3B: Pete Rose
OF: Reggie Jackson
OF: Rickey Henderson
OF: Jose Canseco
P: Curt Schilling

Vida Blue- Most Events Aren't Planned

A project with passion

"You have to live in a place for a while to get to know how it's going to work for you," says the businesswoman – for whom this stylish, welcoming Son Vida property is a permanent family home, shared with her husband and small daughter. Achieving a makeover's desired effect doesn't always happen easily. In the case of this property, it's taken three projects – the last of which was ongoing for four years – to create the comfortable home they have today.

The owners bought the property eleven years ago, as a traditional opulent Son Vida villa. It boasted space (including five bedrooms, six bathrooms and a garage for five cars), lashings of natural light, and breathtaking views over the Bay of Palma. With plenty of money, time, and a good interior designer, it's not hard to make a typical Son Vida property look stunning. But making that property into something that looks fabulous, yet lends itself to ordinary day-to-day family life – chilling out at the end of a day's work, enjoying family fun, or entertaining friends – requires something more. Knowing the property and how it's to be used is a good starting point.

It goes without saying that a Son Vida property owner can probably afford the best things to put in their home, but this project illustrates that high-end and budget items, as well as one's own artistic creations, can be successfully combined. This home incorporates fixtures and accessories sourced from Zara Home and Leroy Merlin, as well as purveyors of luxury goods, such as the famous London store, Liberty. "It's about having the confidence to put things together," the owner tells me. A good example is the pendant lighting over the dining table: the economically-priced silver globes came from Leroy Merlin, "but the red ones were probably the most expensive lights I've bought!" The dining table and sideboard were custom-made by local company F&I Cocinas y Baños, which also made the kitchen units. A runner for the long table was made with fabric from Rialto Living.

Inspiration came from many sources. While visiting Miami, the couple took photographs of some shelving units they saw and liked. Working from those images, skilled Mallorcan artisans reproduced the shelves, which now grace their living room. The doors in this large room were also hand-crafted, to replace the constructor's originals.

Fengshui was a major influence in this project. A consultation and subsequent 28-page report by Natalie Jürges of Solera Fengshui (www.solera-fengshui.com) revealed a number of issues that needed addressing:

"The house was very stylish,"

Natalie says, recalling her first visit. "It looked like a property you'd see featured in a magazine, but it was impersonal – lacking cosiness and a family feel, and it didn't reflect the character of the owners."

Natalie's analysis was based on energy flow and energy quality throughout the property. She made recommendations to improve energy flow and introduce more of the element water, to increase the potential for relaxation: "There were some strong and dark colours used in the house which produced a strict, sometimes severe feel. In general, there was an excess of the elements earth and metal."

The water element was increased in several areas by adding different shades of the colour blue (such as the lounger chair in the living room's cosy reading corner) and silver, and introducing fabrics incorporating a wavy pattern (for example, on the living room armchairs and the Designers Guild Montefiore rug in duck egg blue, sourced from Knox Design, on the covered terrace). The very centre of the house – an important place in fengshui – is now marked by a low-hanging white lantern in the huge living room.

The exterior living areas of the home were the last to be tackled and the businesswoman turned to interior designer Justine Knox (www.knoxdesign.net) to source new outdoor dining furniture, easy chairs, rugs and a modular sofa for the covered terrace. "My client had seen a sofa in a magazine and wanted something similar," Justine says. "We found a modular arrangement from one of our Spanish manufacturers, Confort 2000, and she was able to try the Naron model in the showroom." Designers Guild Tiana fabric was sent to the manufacturer, who made removable covers for each module. "The result is a very comfortable, practical and versatile sofa arrangement." The new look was completed with easy chairs and low tables from the Gloster Axis range, dining tables from the Westminster Linea range (sourced from Knox Design), and cushions from La Oca. The project proves that indoor and outdoor furniture can be successfully combined.

The creative side of this businesswoman has resulted in some personal and unique touches that add to the charm and intimacy of this home. When the outdoor terraces were re-paved, she painted the terracotta plant pots to give accents of colour. In the living room of the house, her colourful velvet-covered candlesticks are always a talking point with visitors, and there are several of her simple but effective paintings hanging in the property. Lilac silk fabric from Liberty was made into curtains for the master bedroom, but look again and you'll spot the crystal droplets (hand sewn by ‘I Love Fabrics') onto the drapes add a sparkle in the morning sunshine. Putting her personal stamp on the property by using her own artistic traits has added to the family feel of the home.

The total project has certainly been a protracted one, but what used to be a rather impersonal but luxurious villa is today a stylish contemporary, yet cosy, family home – evidence of this businesswoman's creative flair, open-mindedness, and belief in the principles of fengshui.

Not to mention patience and tenacity . . .

About the Author

Dr. Helen Cummins is the Editor of abcMallorca Magazine a high quality guide to mallorca printed in three languages including informative Articles about Mallorca, up to date Events Guide and a Business Directory.

You can visit the abcMallorca website to read the original article about A project with passion or related articles about properties in Mallorca.