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Monteverde, Costa Rica, Many Faces of a Rain Forest

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Ann

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 … Continue reading →

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Monteverde Costa Rica, Home of the Quetzal

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Ann

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 … Continue reading →

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Costa Rica’s Rain Forest

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Ann

Costa Rica is famous among tourist as having beautiful rain forest where hundreds of species of plants and animals live.   The best place in Costa Rica  for a tourist to see a primary rain forest, one that is hundreds of … Continue reading →

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Monteverde, Settled by Quakers

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Ann

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 … Continue reading →

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