This Luxurious Costa RicanResort Offers Guests A Unique, Private Rainforest Experience

With a name like Hotel Three Sixty, the panoramic standards should be high. This hilltop resort in Costa Rica overlooks the Pacific Coast, along with billowing blankets of forest. Viewed from its many decks and balconies, the oceanic horizon smolders with tropical sunsets. The remote night skies are a dazzle of equatorial stars. And each morning, the canopy is symphonic with birdsong, daring guests to spot feathered flyers in the upper boughs. The odds are good: Biologists have identified at least 367 bird species in this corner of Costa Rica, and the nearby Osa Peninsula represents 2.5% of the world's biodiversity.

To help guests spot wildlife, Hotel Three Sixty provides them with CL Curio Binoculars made by Swarovski Optik, one of the top-rated manufacturers in the optical industry. The Austrian brand specializes in telescopic lenses, helping naturalists and hunters set their sites on hard-to-find critters. Hotel Three Sixty and Swarovski recently started a partnership, so that guests both enjoy epic views and also zoom in on specific scenery. Even if you've never set foot in a rainforest or seen a spider monkey up-close, well honed hospitality and ecotourism make Costa Rica a perfect international trip destination for travel newbies.