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Rara Avis: If you have time to visit one private nature preserve, this is the one to visit! Adventure Guide to Costa Rica, Harry S. Pariser

...the Rara Avis preserve, [is] in my mind the most interesting tropical preservation project in Costa Rica.
Costa Rica: A Travel Survival Kit, Lonely Planet Publications, Rob Rachowiecki

...Rara Avis, not only for nature /adventure tourism but a biological research center and a conservation proving ground to show [its] neighbors that they can make more money by maintaining the forest than by clearing it...
Costa Rica: A Natural Destination, Ree Strange Sheck

“There’s so much life down there, you can almost feel the forest pulsing.”
Weekly Reader

Costa Rica has begun fostering ways to protect its jungle habitat. Perhaps the most innovative is Rara Avis...It has won international praise as a unique economic as well as ecological model, attracting hundreds of ... “ecotourists” to Costa Rica.
Christian Science Monitor

Tucked into a small clearing in the virgin jungle is a rustic hotel where hundreds of tourists sortie into the wilderness to seek the mysteries of the rain forest...Rara Avis makes it possible to explore the jungle in relative luxury.
Chicago Tribune

If you want a vacation that is active and a real adventure and at the same time lets your money work directly to save the rain forests, take a spin through Rara Avis... “It’s the real thing, being out here, not Disneyland. You’re in the jungle and not on some ride. The experience isn’t watered down – except that at Rara Avis, you have good beds and great food.”
Omni

It’s partly the struggle to get here that makes Rara Avis what it is...one of Costa Rica’s truest “nature-oriented” tourist destinations.
Calypso Log, Cousteau Society

“We cannot begin to tell you how much we enjoyed our stay with you at Rara Avis. We have wished ourselves back there every day since we’ve been home – rain, mud road and all.”
Visitors Trudi & Don Duchesne.

“What to say? My Rara Avis adventure was the highlight of an exquisite trip to Costa Rica.”
Visitor W.D.

“I don’t expect you to remember me, but I am the old lady who asked you to cut a hiking stick for me on the trail. Anyway, I had a glorious time at Rara Avis and appreciate the splendid work you are doing there. If I were younger I would see if I could volunteer to work there.”
Visitor L.D.

Rara Avis Rainforest Lodge & Preserve