Property: Golfito dream villa with 4 hectares of virgin forest, the natural paradise of Costa Rica - South Pacific, Costa Rica

The land still has to be registered legally and the house is in need of renovation, hence the low price.

 

Purchase or exchange for house in Germany, Austria or Switzerland only 

Equipment: 

Lot size: 

Originally, a site acquired by the current owner of 24 ha on which stood an old house. This was then demolished and built on the same spot an expensive and luxurious new building. 

The competent environmental protection and nature conservation authority, which is responsible for the entire nature reserve has Golfito, private grounds, however, on 4 ha (40,000 m² is) could be reduced and, unfortunately, have not yet registered are properly in the register. This fact makes no difference, because the private land and buildings within the nature reserve anyway Golfito and thus is surrounded by 1500 hectares of protected rain forest paradisiacal. In this respect it is irrelevant whether now officially includes some additional hectares more or less to own property or to the park administration. Within your own private area, of course, are all important and walk-ways, gardens, housing and water supply from the nearby waterfall. This, together with two natural streams of the two sides of the border area and at its confluence there is also the access road and the entrance to the property. 

House description: 

The double-storey house has a floor plan of 10 x 10 meters with an additional 2.70 m wide circular tiled veranda that extends the usable living space and covered the entire plant being generous. 

The ground floor is also tiled (and therefore easy to clean) and there are there living room, kitchen, toilet, bathroom, corridor and stairway. 

On the first floor there are three major Gäste-/Schlafzimmer comfortable with one double and one single bed and one smaller single room. 

House Construction: 

The entire structure was designed by German owners personally and individually planned and in the best German quality and earthquake resistant construction in over 3 years of everything from hand drawn consuming. 

It was not only the house walls about every 2.50 m reinforced concrete piers again just as deeply set into the ground with reinforced concrete lintels among teeth, but as an additional stabilization also cast all of the veranda surrounding Greek columns and Spanish arches of reinforced concrete, interconnected and also the columns just as deeply rooted as pillars in the stone surface. 

These two spider-like leg-scale reinforced concrete constructions also learn an additional stiffening and connecting through the massive cross beam of the porch-roof and the ceiling made of massive wood beams and flooring. 

Overall, it makes the house almost completely earthquake-safe, which is in all three of America is an important prerequisite, since because of the nearby San Andreas Fault earthquake must be reckoned with again. 

The owner himself experienced a few years ago an earthquake measuring 8 on the spot there in his house, which was so strong that he was thrown out of bed. Nevertheless, the design showed no cracks, breaks, or even the slightest damage to the earthquake and put the safety of the house so clearly demonstrated. 

Furnishing materials: 

A number of German visitors and carpenters were just in disbelief at the wonder, as they noted at a visit to the house and saw that not only the staircase, the ceiling / floor of 1 Floor or any furniture from the finest solid "wood-Nazarena" are handmade, but also the entire kitchen, shelves, beds, 

Chairs, tables, etc. from this unique and rare mahogany variant were created. Nazarena-wood stands out with its unique pinkish-purple hue that darkens over the years, becoming a wine-red mahogany hue. These tree species that exist only in Costa Rica has become so rare that the wood as well as no longer exists or has been almost priceless. 

The elaborate and expensive interiors Nazarena-wood was the late 90s, only possible because of the then living there German owner accidental nor a large batch of old deposited Nazarena-wood came and summarily decided, everything completely buy and because of the overall future picture the entire interior of the house it can be costly to produce by hand. 

Water supply: 

Water is supplied throughout the year about 50m away from the waterfall, which can be used with more natural than natural stone pool bath. Since the whole town of Golfito in a similar way throughout the year by even larger waterfalls meets its water needs, it makes no sense, cumbersome to connect to public water supply, but to save their own water supply with additional costs. 

The supply of hot water showers, sinks and kitchen will be provided by a water heater. 

Electricity, telephone, Internet: 

The house has a public electricity and telephone service which is provided with a 350m long cable connecting the main road. 

Internally, the power supply in the house alternately be set to 110/220. 

Location: 

Location: 

In the most beautiful tropical landscape of Costa Rica in the south of the country in the small picturesque port town of Golfito. 

Only a few walking minutes from the city center or Golfitos away. Picturesque private setting in a hidden green valley, surrounded by 1500 hectares of rain forest reserve. 

Golfito was the former center of the Chiquita Banana Company and grew it approached the central town in the south of the country. Since the banana company in the 60s and 70s withdrew from the region, the region fell into a deep sleep and has developed very far. Here is the original Costa Rica can be found and the sleepy colonial charm Golfitos makes straight his charm and appeal, which in recent years, many foreigners from around the world have died and settled there. It found there different restaurants (local, Chinese, French or Italian cuisine) and actuation options. 

In Golfito find all the shops, supermarkets, post office, authorities and everything you need for life. Its small airport is wildly romantic, at the edge of the rainforest and is only 5 minutes away from downtown. Most of the resident foreigners as well as local business people like to use, therefore the opportunity, with little modern Cessna aircraft to fly in only about half an hour in the capital city located in northern San José take long bus rides to accept it. There are several daily flight connections so you usually even a ticket for the next day may have been. The flights are cheap (about 40 € one way) and reliable. 

The Nature Reserve Golfito was asked many years ago under the protection and covers the entire hilly forest region, which begins immediately after the few roads Golfitos and creates a beautiful picturesque natural scenery and directly behind the site already on the edge begins. The nature reserve was established mainly to ensure the drinking water supply Golfitos future, which is fed by the many waterfalls that pour down from the mountains. Even early on the danger of landslides on deforested slopes has been detected and to protect against this danger, Golfito, established the reserve in which it is forbidden to cut trees. 

Environment: Golfito (translated: small Gölfchen) lies in a picturesque setting by the sea in a small bay, which turns into the famous Golfo Dulce (literally "sweet golf, because of its many freshwater inflows"). In the Golfo Dulce cavort frequently whales and dolphins a lot, raise the hot water in the sheltered bay of their young and the Osa Peninsula is another major natural attraction. It is considered the rain forest in the world, where hangs out in a small space most of the species diversity (250 species of birds, 100e butterfly species, almost 100 mammal species) and can not find on a hectare of land too often up to 100 different tree species. 

The Golfo Dulce is surrounded by beautiful pristine sandy beaches where there are a few eco-tourist accommodation. All beaches are accessible from Golfito by boat from taxis. 

Approx. 30 km away is the border with Panama, which is a popular shopping destination. For here is found in large stores of clothing to modern hi-tech electronics and everything you need investigated. Also, you can usually just renew his tourist visa and many foreigners living there have done so not even bother to apply for a permanent residence permit, but might prefer the simplicity, easy to renew her visa every 3 months. 

The surrounding Golfitos offers many beautiful and varied scenery of the special kind of find it to several Indian reservations in the surrounding mountains, where native Indian peoples still live the same as originally a former Italian colony of emigrants in the mountains of the hinterland. 

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Start-up option: 

With this project provides an easy and wonderful way as a new business startup, which imposes formally in this case. Namely to lead the whole thing as a rain forest lodge, over conventional rain forest lodges in Costa Rica offers tremendous advantages: 

Usually rain forest lodges in Costa Rica are very high priced (without further 200-400 U.S. $ per night per person), because everything you need to be flown in consuming small planes need high restaurant-level or air conditioning cooled libraries in the rainforest only at great expense to are met. Nevertheless, just by the Americans, who have only a few vacation days available to use such services and is pleased with them a corresponding round supply the whole well worth the money. Since the beginning of lodges own airstrip and aircraft up to the restaurant, its own power supply, human resources and rain forest all leaders must provide support themselves and fall with them correspondingly high costs and high consumer prices. 

This is not necessary in this case everything is here and it offers a unique niche in the market for Costa Rican popular segment of the rain forest lodges and forest tourism. For although the lodge, like other rain forest lodges also lies amid luxuriant rain forest, it's only a few hundred meters from the city center, offering opportunities that are not present in other lodges. For example, go to the guests in the evening stroll in town or have the choice to dine at various restaurants. 

Since Golfito easily with an official air route will be flown from the capital San Jose and can carry taxis in couple of minutes to the Rainforest Lodge in Golfito, it needs this no investment and can easily fall back on existing infrastructure. 

The town of Golfito itself is ideal for trips and rallies in the entire environment. Locally you can easily boat captains with a private boat hire for such excursions (eg, dolphin watching in the Golfo Dulce, or beach-hopping to the most beautiful beaches), with jeep taxis remote Indian reserves or unique botanical gardens to visit and interesting day trips of all kinds or perform even more fascinating day excursions into the surrounding tropical nature. 

That is, put simply, this: More than any other rainforest lodges you can organize an extensive excursion program of any kind, which includes not only the usual rain forest excursions and bird watching, but because of the unique location Golfitos also all boat and beach activities to include (up to sailing and deep sea fishing), without which this would require its own investment. 

What this needs is only one computer / laptop and creating a separate website (which American tourists are happy to book over the Internet), and halfway decent English skills. Then you can offer a wide range of day trips / excursions to choose from and still unrivaled with a low daily rate (eg from 100 U.S. $ per day per person) score and secure even with very few guests his basic livelihood. For besides breakfast and a lunch box, has one of the guests is not very difficult, as they are during the day on excursions and a night out for dinner to Golfito. 

Cooperation with Austrian Rainforest Lodge: 

The Vienna University founded many years ago a rainforest lodge in the same nature reserve and saw to it that could be bought with donations large rain forest and farm areas that were a merger with the Corcovado National Park on the Osa Peninsula in the way of. Thus was created solely for students living in 11 big cat species, and finally a vast territory which has long needed a natural bridge between the two parks for the exchange between the species. Since then, it attracts many Austrian and German visitors to the region and therefore was the Austrian Rainforest Lodge built. 

The founder and driving force of the Austrian Lodge, a famous Austrian violinist, looked at a few years ago the newly built Rainforest Lodge Golfito and was immediately impressed by the house and the uniquely beautiful location. As the guests of the Austrian Lodge repeatedly express even a desire to want to go out at night once or even days at the beach lodge, he saw here an ideal way of cooperation, as it requires all the conditions are met and declared himself ready if needed in future tourists to the operator continue to lead our lodge. 

Exchange or purchase arrangements: 

Basically offer two options for those interested. Namely the acquisition of a project. Or the exchange into a stationary home in Germany. 

Purchase: The purchase price is fully dedicated to the house, the entire interior as well as the surrounding terrain own 4 ha. VHB. These were approximately the own creation and expense of the owner / builder. 

Exchange: As the owner has done it again very good experience with an exchange, as he swapped his horse farm in Costa Rica against a farmhouse in Germany and it still a close friendship with the exchange partner, he is also in this case for this possibility open. 

That is, if someone from Germany, Austria or Switzerland would like to emigrate, the above object in question and would need the person (s) but before that still sell their own house would be here maybe the possibility of a direct exchange given. The house should have a similar value. In case of strong deviations above or below you can personally agree on an appropriate compensation for both. Corresponding offers (if possible with home photo) can be submitted to binding. 

Climate, weather, travel time, rain: 

The weather in southern Costa Rica's tropical and warm all year round. Temperatures vary between approximately 20-27 degrees in the wet season and 25-40 in the Gran dry season. 

Roughly speaking one can divide the climate in southern Costa Rica in two halves, namely rainy season and dry season. The dry season is an ideal travel time and high season runs from early December to June. So, just perfect for escaping harsh winters in Europe. The rainy season, however, (around July to November) is usually used by botanists and biologists as travel time, as in bloom this time most of the plants and the climate is cooler and more bearable for Europeans as well. 

The southern Costa Rica's green all year, because over the years a standing column of water distributed rainfall of about 800cm goes down (in comparison with Germany: 120cm a year). Even in the dry season it rains here once every three nights short, so that even crops must be watered infrequently. Nevertheless, one has to make the coast and the beaches are often up to 300 days of sunshine a year, corresponding to the tropical feel. 

Eco-tourism: 

Costa Rica is now because of its economic and political stability as the Switzerland of Central America and pioneered key developments in the protection of forests and conservation of rare animal species. Recognized earlier than other countries Costa Rica, that his treasure, the ancient forests with their rare species of plants and animals represented and therefore began with is to create more nature reserves and national parks. Through the gentle eco-tourism, Costa Rica has managed to protect not only its nature long term and to create jobs for locals, but also to open up an important source of revenue for the country, which will in future allow further protective measures. 

Therefore, offer is still in operation across the country many opportunities for dropouts / expatriates in the entire eco-tourism sector, which also corresponds exactly to the increasing environmental consciousness of the German-speaking Central Europeans and mentality is very accommodating. 

Democracy / military: 

Costa is the only country in the world has of itself voluntarily abolished its military and has since completely waived! This approach is unique worldwide and is already bringing to express that the Costa Ricans have their own mindset and perspective that is much calmer and more peaceful than their neighbors. Because of the stable political situation has been made in recent years, especially from American and European side of high investments and therefore may be the country in case of emergency and military protection of the United States be safe. 

Language: 

The national language of the locals is a simple, easy-to-learn and easy-to-understand Spanish, which everyone understands and learns quickly foreigners there to speak. Understand or speak German there, almost nobody. English only in a few classic tourist sites and tourist restaurants. Was to travel around the country but at least you understand some important basic Spanish words and phrases. 

More information 

Type of property Villa 

Living area 190 m² 

Room 5 

Bedroom 3 

Bathroom 2 

Kitchen Yes 

Conditioned Yes 

Free parking Yes 

Garden use Yes 

Year 1999 

Condition Excellent 

Old / new building construction 

Available Immediately