From San Jose several buses leave from the busstation TRACOPA directly to Rio Claro. One of them goes to Golfito, the other one goes to Panama. About 1 km before Rio Claro you can get off at the ricefactory ( Arrocera), Walk in the direction of the Bus you came with, take a left turn just before the bridge.The river should now be on your right hand side. Follow this road straight ahead for about 20 minutes. Now you will reach our first house. At the back of the sign which reads RAWTREAT,  you will find a piece of paper with a detailed description how to get to the mainhouse/rancho.

It is also possible to take a Taxi from Rio Claro.

• Temperature 21 degrees celsius- 35 degrees celsius/ 70-95 degrees Fahrenheit
• Dry season from January to May
• Average humidity: 90-96 %
• We are located in the lowlands of Costa Ricas tropical rainforest. That is on the southern pacific-side about 150 meters above sea level.

Many fruits and plants grow on the rawtreat farms, and great knowledge is to be acquired in order to attain mastery - and subsistance - in their culture. You may download here a "fruit table", which indicates the fruittrees that grow and/or may grow on the rawtreat farms.

• Fruittree table, July 25 version.

In our nursery we have locally common fruit-trees/plants as well as exotical ones grafted or from seeds.We sell or exchange our trees.

We have several bikes with which you can hike to town, to the restaurant or make a jungle-trip. The renting costs depends on the distance of your ride: to the town for example $1.

Further activities in the immediate vicinity you can undertake by doing jungle-trips, white-water-inner-tubing, explore the vicinity by mtb., going to the waterfall and jumping and swimming in the pool, visiting farther away botanical gardens, friends and Permaculture Project (closes the beach),....

• Mosquito net ( better which is sandflea safe)
• LED-Flashlight
• two sheets (one for lay on the other for cover yourself with) or thin sleeping-bag (satin)
• working clothes
• pers. dishes: spoon, penknife

Recommendable:

• Trekking sandals,
• hammock
• rubber boots( during wet-season)
• insect repellant ( health shop)
• long-sleeved clothes( for the evenings)
• musical instruments
• old clothes ( for jungle tours)
• stairless steel knife which can be carried on a belt
• sunhat
• yoga mat,...

Euros can be exchanged without any problems in every medium-sized town. There are also ATM s.

Donations : sheets, books/mags, music (musical instruments, CD s), tools, seeds ( ask for what is needed), blankets, mosquito net or curtains which can be used as mosquito nets, mountainbike and spare parts, tight fabric for hammocks, canning jars, truly organic raw olive(oil), hempseeds, algeas, ...