Cabo Matapalo Villa for Rent: Luxury Villa - Spectacular Ocean View, Infinity Pool, 25 Acres of Primary Forest - Property 322534

Our property is home to four types of monkeys, hundreds of bird species, sloth, iguana, anteaters, and a myriad of other animal and plant species. This magical place offers the rare opportunity to experience nature at its most spectacular and unspoiled. Local tour operators for most of the activities are available and our caretakers can show you where to go and what to do. The area was once home to the Brunca Indians for thousands of years. Pieces of native pottery can be found by those that care to look. The Indians considered this a holy place and many who stay here find a spiritual peace that is quite uplifting.

Jutting out from the southern coast of Costa Rica, lies the Osa Peninsula, the country’s wildest and most spectacular region. The peninsula is bordered on the east by the Golfo Dulce and on the west, the Pacific Ocean. It is a little more remote than other, more developed parts of the country like Quepos, Dominical or Guanacaste. The Osa is accessible by road, an eight-hour drive from San Jose along the Pan American highway, or 50 minutes by one of the daily commuter flights. It is more lush and tropical here than in northern Costa Rica with spectacular wildlife, deserted beaches and virgin forests. Living here is for people with a little more pioneer spirit who are looking to co-exist with unspoiled nature. Much of the peninsula is still without electricity and four wheel drive is a necessity here. The Osa’s unique bio-diversity which is made up of eight different habitats including cloud forest and the largest and most exuberant lowland wet tropical forest remaining in all of Pacifi

All of the resort homes and small tourist projects operate on solar power, generator, or hydro-power. (Please leave any blowdriers, curling irons, etc home). Heat generating items use HUGE amounts of electricity. For those of us that live here, the Osa is what Costa Rica is all about. Not only in terms of landscape and outdoor adventure, but also the culture and the Costa Rican people. The Osa’s forests are vegetated by the largest trees in Costa Rica. This is truly a paradise lost, a place where jaguars still roam the jungles, Scarlet Macaws fly freely around the small towns, and monkeys are found in numbers unmatched in all of Costa Rica and most of Central America. Non 'mainstream' tourist’s have discovered this previously little known, rugged paradise and come from around the world to experience the 'wild side' of Costa Rica. The Osa Peninsula is unquestionably 'the last best penisula' (Outside Magazine)