The Oasis at Puket

13/10/2026

Before trucks and highways, coffee from the Central Valley was hauled across the mountains by ox-drawn carts on journeys that could take 10 to 15 days to reach Puntarenas. ☕🐂

It is hard to imagine your morning coffee starting with a trip like that.

03/10/2026

Have you seen the beauty of our ? Take a digital tour of the property right here!

30/09/2026

For a country packed with history and extraordinary landscapes, Costa Rica has a surprisingly short UNESCO World Heritage list: just four properties. 🌎

Three are natural sites, while the Diquís archaeological settlements and their famous stone spheres represent the country’s cultural entry.

09/09/2026

The Nicoya Peninsula is internationally known for its unusually high number of people living into their 90s and 100s. 🌞

Researchers point to not only traditional foods but also daily movement, strong family ties, social connection, and a clear sense of purpose.

Maybe “pura vida” has a little science behind it after all.

03/09/2026

Traditional Costa Rican oxcarts were not just beautifully painted. Their wheels were designed to create a distinctive sound as they moved. 🎨🐂

Different regions once had their own decorative styles, so people could often tell where a cart came from simply by looking at its patterns. The tradition is now recognized by UNESCO.

26/08/2026

Long before modern Costa Rica existed, Indigenous communities in the Diquís Delta created enormous, nearly perfect stone spheres, some measuring more than 8 feet across. 🪨

Researchers still debate exactly how they were made and what they represented. Today, several of the original sites are protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

18/08/2026

Puerto Limón has been shaping Costa Rica’s connection to the wider world for more than a century. 🚂⚓

By the early 1900s, the Caribbean port city was already modernizing, with electric lighting arriving in 1903, a sewer system in 1907, and piped drinking water by 1912.

But Limón’s story is about much more than infrastructure. The railroad, international trade, Afro-Caribbean migration, architecture, culture, and the surrounding natural environment all helped create one of Costa Rica’s most distinctive regions. 🌴

Our latest blog looks at how Limón became an early modern city and why its history still matters today.

👉 Read the full story at https://theoasisatpuket.com/limon-was-modernizing-before-most-travelers-realized/

Limón helped shape modern Costa Rica through early infrastructure, Caribbean trade, railway growth, and multicultural heritage.

12/08/2026

The beaches protected by Tortuguero National Park provide nesting habitat for four sea turtle species. 🐢

The surrounding canals and forests also protect animals such as manatees, tapirs, monkeys, and jaguars, making the park much more than a turtle destination.

04/08/2026

Cahuita National Park may look small from the trail, but most of the protected area lies offshore. 🌊🐠

Its marine territory is far larger than its land area, protecting coral reefs, seagrass, tropical fish, and other coastal ecosystems just beyond the beach.

28/07/2026

Costa Rica’s Atlantic Railway did much more than connect San José with Limón. 🚂

The route helped shape dozens of communities and transformed the movement of coffee, cacao, bananas, people, and ideas across the country. Its construction also brought workers from Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean, permanently influencing Limón’s language, food, music, and identity.

That history also includes discrimination. A 1934 banana agreement barred the United Fruit Company from employing “people of color” in its Pacific operations, limiting opportunities for many Afro-Caribbean workers as the industry expanded west.