Puerto Jimenez facts and photos – a small town in Osa Peninsula Costa Rica

• it’s the best town to reach Corcovado National Park
• the best home-made ice cream place
• a few places to get tasty smoothies
• dolphin tours leave from here
• you can take a boat and then a few vans and local buses from here to Panama
• many unpaved roads
• locals drive or huge pickups and jeeps, or motorbikes
• the town and its surroundings are very dusty

• many cows and horses around the road
• you can easily hitchhike here, it’s safe
• as it’s a small town, everyone know everything about everyone else, or at least they think so, so talking about others is very normal in here
• monkeys wake you up at 4 or 5 am
• many dogs around
• loads of healthy ingredients are sold at the grocery store – chia seeds, chan, many nuts (quite expensive)
• I have never seen nicer sunrises from anywhere else than in here every single morning with an enormous Sun waking us all up.

• eco-tours to the surrounding attractions
• people in Puerto Jimenez area not only focus more and more on the eco-tourism, but also on ecological gardening, how to grow vegetables and fruits without chemical use and even how to educate others on the matter
• no-chemical cosmetics, such as Rainforest Solutions is also becoming more known
• there’s a lot of talented inhabitants in town, they make jewelry, wooden statues or images and then sell them
• you can even see monkeys right in town – the very first 5 minutes I was in town, we saw a monkey family and scarlet macaws! And that was just the beginning of living with wildlife in Osa Peninsula.
• football is a very common sports in here, both played and watched
• the smallest airport I’ve ever seen, just a dusty road in the middle of lush green vegetation just North of town

• the main street is full of stores selling clothes and souvenirs
• better accommodation is definitely outside of town itself – such as Blue Osa where I stayed
• I heard that many young people smoke marihuana and drink alcohol which is a sad thing. But on the other hand, many of my friends realized it soon enough and changed their lifestyle.
• kind of difficult to get vegan meals at restaurants where they focus mostly on fish and sea food
• there’s some ylang ylang trees around and they smell incredibly awesome! Especially at the sunset time.
• one of the best things ever is sitting on the back of a pickup car and watch stars at night. I have never seen more random shooting stars like in here.
• exotic fruit is being sold at the stores so do not dare to leave without trying it

PS: sorry for all those ice cream photos but it was indeed the best. And most of all, very rarely you find ”healthy” vegan ice cream, right? ;)