With vacations around the corner and summers scorching everything alive and inanimate, it’s not unheard of to plan a vacation somewhere out of the country. After all, there are places way cooler and colorful than the burning yellow surroundings of a summer struck country! But it’s not easy to afford a vacation abroad for everyone (despite the lucrative ads of many travel agencies, making foreign trips happen in ‘Just some outrageous amount’!)
So when heat is the problem coupled with a tight budget, ecotourism can well be the solution. Ecotourism is a popular concept in western countries, which are supposedly ‘trying to become responsible for a healthy planet’. In the developing nations, however, ecotourism is still a new notion. People with their newfound excessive disposable incomes and attraction of the glamorous life prefer going to expensive destinations for holidays instead of doing nature a favor. Still, ecotourism can be of service to many a travelers and to nature, at the same time.
Ecotourism is in essence, touring places that are nearby to one’s place of domicile, that are ecologically in their natural most forms and that present to one, a wholesome experience of interacting with nature. By going to nearby natural places, one ends up saving stupendous travel expenses (and if air travel is being avoided, then one’s carbon footprint is reduced greatly). While every country has many such natural havens for eco-tourists, not many of us are aware of them. Places like wildlife sanctuaries, jungle retreats, natural reserves, riversides, lakesides etc. are some such destinations. A nice trip to any of these places can be easily affordable; with added bonus of getting to know one’s country and its beautiful natural resources.
Activities like boating, swimming, camping, trekking and rock climbing can be incorporated into such trips with absolute ease. Ultimately, ecotourism is a socially, ecologically and economically responsible way to spend one’s holidays.
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