Once upon a time, when there were only a few million people on the planet and technology was not yet as advanced as it is today, forests used to cover a very large portion of Costa Rica, probably nearly its entirety. I think the same goes for entire world during its youth. Of course we know what happened next. Human beings appeared, built the greatest structures, and left a lot of the forests gone.
Today, government efforts like that of Costa Rica are being made in order to protect whatever is remaining of our forests from further degradation. Costa Rica has been particularly good at this, which has resulted to intensified tourism related to the environment. Costa Rica today is considered to be among the greenest countries.
One such effort is the institution of national parks, which are officially sanctioned against any commercial or industrial activity. This is done in order to protect not only the trees, but also the organisms that are supported by the forests. There are actually a handful of these parks in Costa Rica.
One of them is the Braulio Carillo National Park, which is located east of San Jose. There are two things worth knowing about this national park, and it is actually ironic that way. First is that it has a vibrant wildlife representative of the state of the nation many centuries ago. The second one is that it is fairly accessible because of the highway that cuts through it. While riding on your car, you can take a look at the breathtaking views that the national park has to offer.
I know that that is pretty odd, considering the efforts of Costa Rica to give important on the environment, but that is already the case with Braulio Carillio, which was instituted in the first place because of the highway that might potentially harm it.
The highway is among Costa Rica's busiest, but once you dropped yourself off that car and walked towards the national park, you'll see that you feel like in your some other world.
