18 Holes Of Jungle Golfing At Garra De Leon
18 Holes of Jungle Golfing at Garra de Leon
by
Enid Glasgow
Imagining Costa Rica ignites a picture of green, densely covered hills. The jungle paints most of the land and from an aerial view; seemingly the entire country is assembled by a palette of organic colors, save a light brown outline, the beach, separating land from ocean. It would only make sense, then, that a golf course in Costa Rica, and at one of the country’s premier resorts, Paradisus Playa Conchal, would be a striking representative of Costa Rica’s scenery.
Garra de Leon golf course feeds off of the same fertile soil as the jungle it rests in. On a normal day, the air is thick and humid and the sky, clear. There is no need to reserve a tee-time, one could simply walk into the proshop, pay the fee, and depart on a golf cart to enjoy 18 holes of picturesque tropics. What’s unique about the golf carts, and maybe this amazed me only because it had been so long since I had last golfed and that’s just the way things are these days, but embedded in the carts are coolers stocked with water, sodas, and beer. You pay for what you drink, but it was the little things that would amount to the experience. The course seemed to be a product of its arresting layout. There is something about playing a course that was designed to resonate the tropical Costa Rican ambiance, only to have the real thing towering around you. I feel as though I’ve been spoiled; playing on other greens has become choreexhausting and slightly dissatisfying. The change in scenery was expected; a vacation is a vacation for a reason. I found that what I had group accustomed to was the serenity of playing in, what felt like, complete isolation. There were no waits, and although there were other groups playing besides mine, the course was otherwise vacant besides the sounds of birds and ocean. At one hole, you tee from a 100 foot rise; on another, mountains rise and howler monkey chatter to your back. Now, instead of planning a vacation to Costa Rica, I plan a vacation to Garra de Leon golf course, as it’s where I spend most of my days.
Enid Glasgow is a travel writer who enjoys traveling in the Americas and Caribbean. During this trip, she stayed at the
Paradisus Playa Conchal
, a
luxury resort
in Costa Rica.
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18 Holes of Jungle Golfing at Garra de Leon