Orosi Valley Paradise Experience
Costa Rica is a cultural and natural paradise, but most travelers only see its impersonal and touristy side. Globe Aware's Costa Rica volunteer travel programs offer a unique opportunity to help small communities improve their well being and create a sustainable future in ecologically important areas.
Volunteer Work Projects in Orosi Valley
About an hour from the city of San Jose, in a gorgeous, hidden valley (Orosi), rests the tiny community of El Yaz, known for its clean water, rich soil, eternal spring-like temperatures (about 75 degrees every day) and organic, agricultural way of life. Although the villagers love their natural paradise, they have struggled to make ends meet, as even low paying jobs are rare. Most villagers are not in abject poverty, but have no access to hot water, cars, or the quantity of protein sources to which a North American may be accustomed.
Some Completed Orosi Valley Volunteer Work Projects:
- Promote requested perma-culture gardening to locals through demonstrations
- Organize butterfly garden
- Repair pedestrian bridges
- Provide environmental education and conservation
- Solar cooking projects
- Bury and installed new PVC water pipe to bring new clean water source into community
- Paint school and build fence around it
- Plant trees
- Build book shelves for school
- Make and install road signs to community
- Paint communal hall
- Build recycling stations
- Build waste receptacles
- Paint and install identifying signs in rain forest
Projects will vary depending on the number of volunteers, which projects were finished with the prior group, what priorities have changed, weather conditions, which supplies are available, and often the interest and fitness level of the volunteers. For these reasons, specific projects are often not fixed until the week prior to your arrival and can even change upon arrival.
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Volunteer Holiday Food and Lodging
Volunteer vacationers in this paradise location stay in one of two side by side mountain top houses. Built in traditional Costa Rican style, furnished with fans & comfortable beds. These include Western-style bathrooms and showers, and hot water. On the 9 acre property are many fruit trees, spectacular views, hiking maths, many tropical birds, a covered Gazebo social area, basketball court, and hammocks. Volunteers are fed plenty of fresh, healthy, abundant, Costa Rican dishes, heavy with fresh fruits, vegetables, rice and beans, with some chicken, egg and beef dishes. Electricity is available, though on a more limited basis than you may be used to at home. Laundry facilities are available on site.
Possible Leisure Activities During Your Service Vacation- Excursion to Irazu Volcano or Tapanti Rainforrest, Cachi Dam Lake
- Nature hikes
- Horse-back riding
- Bathe in the many nearby natural hot springs
- Cheese making
- Traditional sugar cane processing
- Bird-watching
- Incredible star gazing
- Coffee tasting, coffee plantation tour
- Challote farm
- Relaxing in a hammock
- Visit one of the last remaining colonial towns, Orosi, and its famous church
- Guayabo, the nation’s most famous archeological site
Arranging Your Volunteer Vacation AirfareYou will need to arrange to be at the meet-up point in San Jose by 12:30 on the Saturday your program begins. The program ends at 10:00 am the following Saturday and it takes approximately 1.5hours to return to San Jose. The airport is one of the return drop-off stops our driver will make. Do not arrange a flight any earlier than 1:30 pm on the return trip.
Globe Aware Volunteer Vacations to a Costa Rican Orosi Valley Paradise
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