olphin Island Lodge is minutes!!!
located on Uaguitupo
Island, a private Island It doesn’t take long to feel you
directly across from the are miles away from civilisation.
indigenous Kuna island community
of Achutupo. Known locally as the When you hear the words eco
Uaguinega Ecoresort, the name resort, it may be a put off,
derives from the Kuna language, because our only previous
where Uagui means dolphin and experience had involved worms,
Nega means house. Together, and I won’t tell you what they
therefore, it means “The House of did, but if you go prepared
the Dolphin.” During certain mentally then what you will find
times of the year you can catch a is a Robinson Cruso castaway
sight of dolphins, and with some style, quite basic but very
you luck you might be able to comfortable, vacation.
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proper flushing toilet, and a
The Lodge has 11 cabins, which semi open air shower area, but it
are pretty basic, and have is cold only as there no hot
electricity from 6:00 p.m. to water here. Cold showers don’t
11:00 p.m. after which an seem so bad with a hot sun. You
emergency lamp is provided. won’t find any air conditioning
either although there is
The 3 junior suites are a great electricity for lighting,so
deal more comfortable and more keeping the doors open at night
suited for those of us who have is a ‘must do’ but if there is no
outgrown our enthusiastic breeze, then it could become
eco-warrior youth, and now like unbearable.
some home comforts!! They are
equipped with solar panels to There is also an open air dining
provide electrical energy through area right next to the sea, where
the night. The island not being all the delicious meals are
very large is almost all given taken. There is tons of fresh
over to the resort, apart from a fruit, and all the gorgeous
few staff huts. seafood is freshly caught, in
fact you can see the Kuna
It is all very attractive with a fishermen arriving with their
mix of palm trees, grass, and the daily catch.
cabins, which are right on the
edge of the sea. In fact the sea There is a small shop run by
is so close you almost feel it!! local Kuna women, where you can
You can sit on the deck in a buy local handicrafts, and if you
hammock and totally relax to the cannot bear to be completely
sounds of the sea. separated from your emails, then
there are internet facilities.
Each hut is equipped with a
Other things you might wish to do it is in the Caribbean, but it is
is to visit a larger Kuna village like turning back the clock to a
a three minute boat ride away, or time where ultra modern full
visit a nearby deserted island facility hotels were still a
with a beautiful white sand nightmare, sorry a dream!!
beach.
Go see it now and experience it
The whole thing is almost like a whilst you can.
scene from South pacific except
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