Bosque del Cabo Rainforest Lodge

Activities

• There are plenty of walks and hikes within the hotel’s own 750-acre reserve, but the best way to start is to join the primary forest tour with Bosque del Cabo’s English biologist Philip Davison (8am-12pm). This is fascinating so don't miss it (you need to be reasonably fit though)
  
  
• Go early morning bird-watching with Carlos (the hotel’s receptionist and bird guide). Keep your eyes peeled and you could spot scarlet rumped tanager, kiskadee, toucan, parakeets and macaws
  
  
• You can ask for daily yoga classes to be arranged nearby
  
  
• Take a sunset tour with Philip: see bats, kinkajou, possum, reptiles, up to 8 species of frog, insects and snakes around the hotel’s grounds
  
  
• There's a boat tour to see dolphins (all year). Most people do this on the same day as the Rio Esquinas mangrove swamp tour and the animal sanctuary visit
  
  
• Fishing can be arranged - inshore and offshore, billfish, rooster, snapper, jackfish. Inshore fishing leaves from Puerto Jiménez; offshore fishing leaves from 20 miles off Punta Matapalo
  
  
• Open-air massage can be arranged in the forest, near 2 immense trees
  
  
• You can visit Corcovado National Park: one of the most diverse parks in Costa Rica. Access is tricky though - either by road to Carate (40 mins from the hotel) from where you need to walk to the biological station at La Leona. Or take a light aircraft to Sirena
  
  
• Go snorkelling on reefs in the Golfo Dulce region
  
  
• Or horse-riding through magnificent primary growth rainforest ending with a fabulous 280 degree view of the Pacific and Corcovado National Park