Carbonera School children making a Sustainability Tour!

Few weeks ago, Lapa Rios hosted the children from the Carbonera School. They did a Sustainability Tour around the lodge and learned some interesting and fun things.
One of them was to prepare their own tortilla! In the picture, you can see Lance learning from doña Flor.

They also saw our small hydroponic project that we have behind Lapa Rios kitchen. Actually one of the school´s goals for this year is to have a nice orchard and learn from the hydroponic technique.

The tour ended in “La Chanchera” or the pigs place. Keilor was amazed about the pigs size!

The Sustainability Tour also included a visit to the reception, restaurant and bar, kitchen, gardens, rooms, housekeeping area, some part of the rain forest reserve and the Ranchito (staff cafeteria).
The kids that attended the activity were: Joselito, Alejandra, Merlin, Jonathan, Florentino, Keilor, Frankiln, Lance, Cassandra, Heiner, Garnet and teacher Grace. The only one absent was Maralla…

First Aid trainning

The Lapa Rios Emergency Brigade had their "First Aid" training couple of weeks ago. There was a very good opportunity for all of us to learn how to act when there is an emergency. Actually, one of the Maintenance Team members, Greddy, used the skills that he learned to help a lady in a motorcycle accident in town! This is an example of how this kind of trainings makes the staff grow in different ways.

This is Elicer checking doña Zeneida´s blood preassure:

Here we are trying to carry our tiny cook, Leinor:

Even Zuka, one of the Lapa Rios' pets, participated in the practice!

Growing our own lettuce!

In an effort to green our restaurant at Lapa Rios, we´ve started a small-scale project in which we grow our own hydroponic lettuce. Here´s a picture of Adolfo, our sustainability coordinator, working:

Lapathon Jungle Run 2009

Come and participate in the

"Lapathon Jungle Run 2009"

May 31st

18 km race from Lapa Rios to Puerto Jiménez

For more information please contact us at: info@laparios.com

Lapa Rios celebrated the Earth Hour

Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming, and Lapa Rios was part of it last March 28th.
It was a very simple action of switching off the lights for 1 hour (in Costa Rica was from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm). Many parts of the country participated in 2009´s Earth Hour and actually from Lapa Rios´ main deck we could even seen Golfito (the town across the Gulf) in a complete darkness.
Our guests liked the activity and some of them finished their dinner just with the lights of the candles as you can see in the picture

Making handicrafts at Lapa Rios!

Last week we had so many of our guests interested in the crafts that the artisans bring on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays to Lapa Rios restaurant.
On March 20th, the local artisan Joksan taught young Wolfy Neukomm how to weave. He was really excited because he did his own bracelet! You can see him in the picture learning from Joksan.
That same day we also had with us Emily Savage. She is a very interesting lady that learnes how to weave in Chile. She also shared with Joksan some of her abilities. It was very nice to see how many people got involved with the activity that night; learning and teaching each others.
We encourage our guests to learn more about the local culture through this kind of activities!

Goodbye Nito

Goodbye Nito!

Dionisio (Nito) has been a guide in Lapa Rios for 6 years.
Last Wednesday was Nito´s last day as member of our staff.
We will always remember Nito for his passion for ants and birds.
Now he will be dedicating in full time in his family tourism company in his hometown San Vito, southern Costa Rica.
Currently he is in Venezuela studying and learning more about birds.
His company “Surcos” will be offering different kind of tours along National Parks and tropical forests of the Pacific side of Costa Rica.
He also wants to encourage children and young to conserve the environment; to achieve this, he is planning to bring students from his town to Corcovado National Park.
All our staff in Lapa Rios will miss Nito and we hope him good luck and success in his new life!