Puerto Viejo y Manzanillo y La Selva

The first three weekends of our stay was ecotourism craziness. This past week is when we experienced the least amount of ecotourism. The three ecotourism events that I can think of is snorkeling, La Selva and the beach.
I consider the beach to be ecotourism because we tourists are using the beach as entertainment while damaging it as minimal as possible. The profit from the beach would be the tourist shop surrounding the beach. It was easy to tell that the locals really depend on the tourists as consumers.
Snorkeling was awesome! We pretty much paid to go and observe the species near the coral reefs. The coral reefs are said to be some of the biggest in the country. After the reefs we ate lunch and toured a part of the rainforest. We saw monkeys, a snake, and a sloth. I guess the tour also counts as ecotourism. We were not allowed to feed the monkeys. They forest rangers did not want the monkeys to become accustomed to human food and eventually change their eating habits.
La Selva was a place we stayed at. It was also like a research and conservation place where interested animal lovers go and research the rainforest. The rainforest is literally right behind the cabins where we stayed. We took two tours while we were there.