The Whales Tail - Uvita, Costa Rica - Marcy Yu Fashion Blog

Hello travelers!! Finally, it’s Friday and today I’m premiering a new post YAY!

After our visit in the Gulf of Papagayo our next stop was the famous “The Whales Tail” park and area in Playa Uvita. The famous Whales tail is located near the coast along the Central Pacific coast in southern Puntarenas. This area in Costa Rica is biologically known for its lush vegetation, flora, fauna and the mountains that cover the area and tumble into the ocean.

Surrounded of mangrove forests, coral reefs and virgin beaches. At Marino Ballena Park the whales migrate between August and November (from north Antarctica) and from December to April (from South Alaska), each year. The landscape of the Marino Ballena National Park varies depending on the tide because when the tide is low, people can walk to Punta Uvita, which is what forms the tail of the whale. This is actually one of the most important formations and rare on earth therefore is a must see if any of you get to visit Costa Rica.

To fully appreciate the shape of the whale tail clearer this can be seen only from upper parts like all my pictures that were taken at Kura Design Villas.

Kura Design Ecolodge Villas is a luxury hotel that blends an excellent design and environmental consciousness belonging to the hotels chain Cayuga Collection Hotels and Lodges.

The architect Martin Wells and biologist Alejandra Umaña were responsible for this great masterpiece. Both mixed their visions and inspirations with customizing your commitment to nature and art in an extreme tropical environment to create Kura Design Villas. The hotel’s design is seductive, luxurious seamlessly incorporates a system of sustainability, energy conservation, sustainable development and water and waste management operate in the most natural and environmentally safe.

Each suite at Kura was designed using local, custom made furniture and fixtures. All of the villas at Kura feature mood lighting, indoor/outdoor showers, extra high ceilings, and a balcony overlooking the lush Uvita valley canopy.

The surprising thing I discover about this hotel were the rumours in previous years about been financed by drug money. Rumours about this were very widespread all over the small town of Uvita in southern Costa Rica. Well, there is actually a very simple explanation to all of this. Yes, the hotel has been financed by “drug” money, but drug money of a different kind. The good ones, the drugs that can SAVE lives.

The managers of Kura Design Villas are a young couple of Costa Ricans were they soon feel in love with the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica. They moved to Uvita and built a house for themselves in the rainforest hills above the Pacific coast made of recycled shipping containers. It was their dream to build and run a small boutique hotel that would be a model for sustainable development in the region. It was soon to be possible with success of the majority owners success in the “drug” industry.

Kuras owner is the Head of Oncology Research and Large Molecule Research at the Roche Innovation Center in Zurich, Switzerland. He holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and is considered one of the most dedicated and committed researchers of the last decade according to PharmaVoice, a very well renowned trade magazine. He and his team have made some breakthrough research that allowed them to discover an engineered anti-cancer antibody (obinutuzumab, GA101, Gazyva) for the treatment of leukemia and lymphoma. Gazyva is the first drug ever to be approved under FDAs new Breakthrough Therapy regime designed to speed up the approval of promising medicines in areas of high need. So he decided to invest the compensation he received for his work in his native Costa Rica and together with the managers, they created a luxury boutique hotel that would also meet the highest criteria of environmental sustainability and corporate responsibility. They teamed up with the team of Cayuga Sustainable Hospitality and opened the operation to guests in November 2013. The rumors about the “drug” money died and the story about the famous chemist and researcher in Switzerland have taken over.

The food and attention of hotel was really amazing. The food was delicious and not to mention the cocktails that the bartender prepared me with pure real, refreshing and delicious fruit. I remember he made a “new recipe” every few hours and asked me to be the first to taste it and every time taste it much and much better. Just thinking about it makes my mouth water (yummy)

My favourite part of my stay in Kura was when we end up been the only guests of the hotel for a day. Seriously there was no one, it was amazing! Who wouldn’t want to have the entire hotel to yourself right?

I hope you enjoyed this post as I do. Happy weekend everyone!

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