Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve
Monteverde, Costa Rica is home to the famous Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. Recently I spent 4 hours hiking through this beautiful rain forest and the following photographs show the many faces of this rain forest reserve, rising 4, 500 feet above sea level in a mountainous isolated area of Costa Rica.
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Monteverde Costa Rica is filled with tourist from all over the world from January through March which is the time it rains less. It is located high in the cloudy rain forest, atop the continental divide and about 110 miles from San Jose, the capital city. The only access is by road and the road [...]
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On your travels to Costa Rica are you planning to go to Monteverde? If so you may be lucky and see the most beautiful bird in the rain forest, the resplendent Quetzal. Yes, Quetzals can be found deep in the Monteverde Cloud Forest reserve. They make their nests in holes in the trees. The female [...]
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The Community named Monteverde was settled by eleven Quakers families from Alabama in the early 1950s. They left the United States and came to Costa Rica looking for a new home, because they had a strong belief against the military system of the US . Costa Rica, in 1948 permanently abolished it’s army, and known [...]
Let’s visit unique place in Costa Rica, settled by the Quakers in the 1950′s. A bone-shaking road leads up to Monteverde from the Inter-American Highway 1. Only about 35 miles but takes around two hours to drive. It is unpaved and rocky and winds around the mountain up 3,500 feet above sea level. The views [...]
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