Tourist And Source Of Employment Of Monteverde

Tourism:
I. Accommodation Facilities:

a. Monteverde Costa Rica has a wide range of accommodations - hotels, cabins, rental houses and apartments that will fit any eco tourist's budget and quality expectations. Hotels like El Sapo Dorado Hotel Establo Monteverde Lodge Hotel Fonda Vela Quetzal Inn Swiss Hotel Miramontes & the Cloud Forest Lodge make Monteverde a real tourism attraction, with afull coverage in hotel luxury, ranging from 1 star to 4 stars hotels. Prices vary, but in average, cheaper hotels are from $30 to $60, normal hotels from $60 to $90 and expensive hotels are up to $90 and $240 inclusively. Just by mention some of them, cheaper hotels are: Villa Verde and Hotel el Viandante; and the most expensive hotel is El Sapo Dorado.
b. There are a lot of places where youcan eat in Monteverde. There are also many hotels with their own restaurant. They offer Italian food, Costarrican food, vegetarian food, seafood, Swiss food, and Austrian food, between others. Some restaurants are: Flor de Vida Restaurant Mediterràne Restaurant UNICORNIOS Bar EL MARQUES Seafood Restaurant, among others. Monteverde counts on with all kind of restaurants because of it great tourismand it multiple kinds of tourists. There are since little cafés to gourmet restaurants, including romantic environment and exotic boutique restaurants in the deep forests.



II. Natural attractions

a. Cloud forest biological reserve

Seen by others like a huge “Green Cathedral”; Monteverde Cloud forest biological reserve. Monteverde rainforests have grandly tall trees festooned withorchids, bromeliads, ferns, vines, and mosses. There are areas (the most with a very poor drain) that support swamp forest while parts of the forest reserve have a lot of rapids and waterfalls as a product of the tumbling of numerous streams. Factors like the changing climate and large altitudinal gradient have helped to produce a lot of biodiversity. In the reserve, species like the jaguar,ocelot, tapir, bellbird, and quetzal make the fauna of the zone.




b. Butterfly gardens:

The Monteverde Butterfly Garden is one of the area’s original and most visited attractions. It’s located in Cerro Plano, between the town of Santa Elena and the Monteverde Reserve, the Butterfly Garden offers a huge collection of medicinal plant garden, live leaf cutter ant colony, fourclimate-controlled butterfly gardens, etc. where people can appreciate the most beautiful and fascinating insects of the Tropics.

The garden was founded in 1989, by biologist Jim Wolfe and his wife Marta Iris, with the mission of education for visitors about the huge kinds of butterflies and insects native to Costa Rica. All the butterflies in the garden are bred on the place.

The biodiversitycenter shows a variety of insects and arachnids local to Monteverde, some of them live, allowing people to know information about breeding, feeding and habitats, live bug cams, and a case for viewing butterflies as they come out from their chrysalides. Each of the four butterfly gardens represents a different Costa Rican habitat. The gardens contain more than fifty species in total, including theunique Calico butterfly, the only butterfly in the world to produce sound; the stunning Blue Morpho seen all over Monteverde, as well as transparent and barely visible Glass-Wings and unusual striped Zebra-Wings.




c. Ecology farm:
It offers four hiking trails who lead through virgin and secondary forest. It also allows looking at waterfalls as the birding in the area, and other animalslike coatis, agoutis, sloths, monkeys, and porcupines. A small area of the property has coffee and banana plantations.
d. Bird Sanctuaries:
It is located in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve area with an extension of 600 acres, at 55 feet above sea level. It has an abundance of birds, mammals and plants, all of them which have been preserved because of the huge interest in conservation that...