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The Corcovado Tent Camp was featured in Patricia Schultz's book: 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. Here an excerpt from the book (page797):
For That Real Jungle Experience
CORCOVADO NATIONAL PARK
Puerto Jimenez, Osa Peninsual, Costa Rica
With one of the world's best systems of reserves and national parks, Costa Rica's thirty five wildlife refuges protect more than 25 percent of the country's territory; choosing where to head first is a visitor's toughest choice. Covering one third of the remote Osa Peninsula that juts into the Pacific Ocean, in what National Geographic called "the most biologically intense place on earth," the Corcovado National Park is difficult to reach. You may, at times, feel like the only human interloper on the trails (there are no roads) meandering through its 100,000 acres. Corcovado is one the country's largest and wildest parks, safeguarding virgin rain forest, deserted beaches, jungle-rimmed rivers and large inaccessible swampland. Within its broad range of habitats live more than 140 species of mammals, from tapirs to ocelots and cougars. It has the largest remaining population of scarlet macaws, which - together with the 375 other species of birds in the park that occupy more than 850 kinds of trees- vie with four species of monkeys to be heard amid the wildlife cacophony.
At the park's southern border, the Corcovado Lodge Tent Camp is the highlight of a Costa Rica trip for many ecotourists. There's no electricity, shared baths only and drinking water comes from a crystal-clear stream that runs by the twenty platformed tents. A unique Canopy Tour hoists awed guests up eight stories by pulley into the dense jungle canopy. Neither the tent camp nor the canopy tour is for everyone: Where the road from civilization ends, it is a forty-five minute walk along a pristina beach for arriving guests, while luggage is transported by horse cart.
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