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Osa Peninsula & Southern Pacific, Costa Rica

Costa Rica's wild south-west, the Osa Peninsula and the Costa Ballena around Uvita hold Corcovado National Park, the Golfo Dulce and the whale-tail sandbar of Marino Ballena, with scarlet macaws, humpback whales and primary rainforest at every turn. Its best hotels are eco-lodges and small boutique retreats, many reached only by boat or along unpaved roads.

Lapa Rios Eco-Lodge

A pioneering rainforest lodge on a 1,000-acre private reserve at Cabo Matapalo, the southern tip of the Osa Peninsula, where the Golfo Dulce meets the Pacific Ocean.

Playa Cativo Lodge

A boat-access lodge on the Golfo Dulce within a 1,000-acre private reserve beside Piedras Blancas National Park, and a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World.

Kura Boutique Hotel

An adults-only hotel of eight suites high in the Uvita rainforest, with a tropical-minimalist design and an infinity pool overlooking the whale-tail sandbar of Marino Ballena.

Copa de Árbol Beach & Rainforest Resort

Nine all-inclusive villas on a boat-access beach at Caletas, just south of Drake Bay, with a saltwater infinity pool and boat trips to Corcovado National Park from the shore.