Esteban Vargas - Jungle Paradise, Costa Rica

Wednesday 21st january 2015

Esteban is the son of a communist mother. His step father got rich through coffee, but doesn't spend a dime, is politically powerful (The Costa Rican president came to lunch at his parents' house), and told him repeatedly as a child he wasn't able to do something - this only fueled his will to suceed. I'm not sure about his real father, but apparently he tried to pay his mother to have an abortion before he was born and wasn't there for him. His uncle was the one who brought him up and gave him his confidence, and told him he could do something and was capable.

He likes drinking Cortez (strong Costa Rican liquer):

His sister is the total opposite to him who would step on 1 billion people to advance herself in politics.(however I think Esteban has what it takes to survive and could be ruthless) But the difference with him and his sister, is she has been given everything by there Dad (his step dad), whilst he hasn't been given a penny, perhaps because his step Dad treats them differently because his sister is biologically his daughter, but he isn't his son. 

He used to teach environmental science at university in Costa Rica, but hated it because of the politics and it was against college rules to sleep with students, even though they wanted it from him, as the university deemed it as giving those students an unfair advantage...so he retired and bought his own piece of pristine rainforest (for $100,000), which came with waterfalls, rivers, snakes, spiders, panthers, jaguars and unfortunately some poachers who have basically killed all the big creatures! Esteban insists, however, things are there, but we just can't see them :(

 Also included was a wood cabin; 

Luis (his helper who has lived here for 30 years and knows everything about the land);

a horse called Fuerlla (who carries people's backpacks from the river over the mudlands to the house).

Chickens, fish and a dog named Cinamen, who came on our jungle walk and could climb hills I had trouble with and was brave enough to run off into jungle!

Oh and I forgot to say he still teaches Environmental Sciences at his lodge in the jungle but gets his students to come to him instead, and charges $50 a night. He generally screens his guests by hotness (he has a lot of girlfriends), but also willingness to live in the great outdoors and walk through meters of mud to get here. He is currently in love with a 50 year old climatology professor from Russia, who is beautiful as well as hardcore, I imagine she looks like Lara Croft from tomb Raider!