Ecotourism in Costa Rica 哥斯大黎加生態旅遊

Costa Rica is an excellent place for ecotourism. Ever since the army was abolished in 1948, the government of Costa Rica has used its budget  to promote education and (more recently) ecotourism. Costa Rican people are thus friendly, well-educated and used to dealing with foreign tourists. Here is a well-made Vimeo that shows some of the animals you can see while kayaking in Costa Rica:


Kayaking with Crocs in Costa Rica from Matador Network on Vimeo.


Costa Rica is also a great place to watch turtles lay their eggs, hatch and return to the sea. Volunteers are needed every year to help the turtles: poachers steal the eggs to sell them and animals eat the eggs. When they hatch, other animals eat the baby turtles. Maybe you can come to this place an volunteer for a while!

This video shows the arrival (arribada in Spanish, remember that in Spanish spelling people sometimes use "b" or  "v") of Olive Ridley sea turtles at a beach in Costa Rica (from https://vimeo.com/57023796) (the video is set to music by the French composer Camille Saint Saens: Le Carnaval des animaux, IV Tortues)

Every year just before new moon in the rainy season, Ostional beach in Costa Rica is home to a rare natural phenomenon. This small stretch of coastline is the place where hundreds of thousands of Olive Ridley seaturtles come to lay their eggs in the black, volcanic sand. The mass arrival of these sea turtles is called La Arribada.

La Arribada from Arne Lanting on Vimeo.

If you would like to see more sea creatures, you might also like to go diving near Cocos Island:


Cocos Island Costa Rica's Biodiversity Bank from Ocean Health Index on Vimeo.

Note that Cocos Island National Park is a World Heritage site (世界遺產):
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/820