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Fresh For This Season
Remodeled Downstairs Lounge Area
 This sunken space tucked below the lodge dining area with antique brick floors, comfortable couches, built-in curved seating, and small dining tables gives our guests more choice locations to enjoy reading, relaxing or dining. Many have enjoyed special occasions to dine alone with loved ones or family.
New Crocodile Cabin-Suite
 The new addition is a hybrid of our single and double cabins. The "Crocodile Cabin" is large enough for a family of 5 or great for a couple looking for the luxury of a suite with a large terrace, indoor lounge area, and our signature open-air bathroom/shower.
New Adventure Vacation Packages
Garden / Cooking - Edible Landscaping
 New epicurean adventure has guest embarking with Playa Nicuesa's eco-guides and head chef, foraging for exotic edibles from the tropical jungle and lodge gardens. With this trip, you will roll up your sleeves and play assistant chef for a meal, working in the wilds, as well as the kitchen, selecting and preparing the food and garnishes for the evening's savory meal!
Also available as a 4 day package combing a multitude of Garden and Rainforest Adventures.
Bats, Frogs and Snakes - Adventures from Dusk till Dawn
 Nocturnal and early morning adventures into Costa Rica's largest intact lowland tropical rainforest. Perfect for guests young and old alike! Get immersed in a symphony of screeches, cooing and croak while searching for crocodiles, poison dart frogs, eyelash pit vipers, bats, kinkajous, mapaches, peccaries. and more.
Family Tierra y Mar (Land & Sea) Adventure Package
 Five years of working with enthusiastic families have allowed us to put together the perfect package for unique family fun and education at Nicuesa
Conservation, Conservation, and More Conservation
Preserving the Golfo Dulce-Osa Peninsula Region
 We are always reminded of our special location and how lucky we are to have found a pristine spot such as this in a rapidly developing world. Even here, in the immediate area, there are many battles ensuing to preserve the natural habitat and beauty that National Geographic calls, "The most biologically diverse place on Earth." From plans for large scale marinas to tuna farms, to illegal developments in protected rainforest. we are in the fight of our lives to keep this area "as is" - NATURAL, PRISTINE AND WILD.
Nicuesa is fully committed to environmental conservation, and specifically to local and regional conservation efforts around the Osa Peninsula-Golfo Dulce. Through informal conversations, and formal tours such as the Sustainability Tour, Nicuesa has been actively educating guests about our personal environmental endeavors, as well as those of the region. As part of our efforts, we eagerly seek monetary contributions towards the Osa Campaign, a program spearheaded by The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International and Costa Rica-USA. Nicuesa is proud to demonstrate our commitment to the cause by fully matching all guest donations (up to $1000 per individual donation)! This year, to date, we have raised $2800 which, with our match, amounts to $5600 that we will delightedly hand over to The Nature Conservancy / Osa Campaign. Furthermore, we would like to recognize a special guest (who prefers to remain nameless) for their $1000 donation to the Osa Campaign.
Please consider a generous donation to this important cause. Visit www.osacampaign.org for more information and donation process. Be sure to let us know if you made a contribution so that we may match it! Thanks for helping us preserve this beautiful area.
New & Old Faces
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Henry Sol (Sun) Butler-Madey
 Welcome Baby Henry! Henry, born on October 26, 2007, is the newest member of the Nicuesa Family. He is quickly learning the ways of the jungle from his big brother, Leo Mar (sea lion), 3.5 years old. |
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Marie & Michael
Upon joining us as our management team, brought an infusion of new ideas and spirit to Nicuesa. European born, with far flung work and living experiences around the globe, they help manage Nicuesa and ensure all details of your vacation are well tended to. |
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"Our Gang"
| We would like to recognize and give special thanks to 4 people that started working with us 5 years ago and are still working with us at Nicuesa: Juan Pablo – boat captain and all around handyman; Memo – gardener; Vilma – employee cook (and Memo’s wife); and Tomas – fishing guide/guru and guardian of Nicuesa (Tomas was born under the mango tree next to the Mango Guesthouse) |
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More Yoga & Fishing Options!
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Yoga Deck
The long awaited completion of the beach yoga deck and relaxing area. This will allow guests to participate in yoga in the private and beautiful location by the water. During non yoga hours it will be a perfect shady hide out by the beach. |
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 More Fishing Options
For those who do not want to go for whole day offshore but want better chance for larger snappers and roosterfish, we now offer a ˝ day (6am-12pm) trip with private captains in boats bigger than our own pangas and priced more affordable than off shore trips. All our great Inshore and Offshore trips are still available.
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Eat or Be Eaten
 As a tribute to the wondeful fishing bounty the Golfo Dulce offers us, here is a delicious Ginger Fish recipe taken from our upcoming Recipe Book. The Mango Zinger Salsa will make you yearn for sea breeze!
 Download the Mango Zinger Ginger Fish recipe
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The Mango Guest House is a 2 storey accommodation that has 4 private rooms. Set in a beautiful jungle garden area with mango trees on all sides and open views of the surrounding rainforest. Each room has private entrance, beautiful hardwood floors, private bathroom with open air showers, private terrace, louver doors and windows that wrap around the room to afford panoramic views. Rooms have queen beds (or twin beds upon request) with mosquito netting and ceiling fans. The Mango Guest House is separate from the Main Lodge. 
These cabins are very private and set apart from all other accommodations. Tucked into the rainforest affording you a unique feeling of being in an amazing natural setting, yet with design and comfort details that has been described as simple yet ”jungle chic”. Each cabin has a private entrance, beautiful hardwood floors, private open air shower-bathroom, private terrace, louver doors and windows that wrap around the room to afford panoramic views. The garden open air shower is within the cabin’s bathroom, yet allows you to look at nature all around. Look out for the peeping monkeys!