MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA’S PRIMARY RAINFOREST MONTEVERDE LAND OF CLOUD FORESTS AND QUAKERS RURAL COSTA RICA Monteverde lies high in the mountains of central Costa Rica, seven thousand feet above sea level. Clouds seem to shroud the cool environment , and mist floats across the horizon. The road to get there, well-if you can call it […]
Monteverde A Land of Cloud Forest and Quakers VACATION IN RURAL COSTA RICA Monteverde lies high in the mountains of central Costa Rica, seven thousand feet above sea level. Clouds seem to shroud the cool environment , and mist floats across the horizon. The road to get there, well-if you can call it a road…..The […]
Monteverde, Costa Rica, Many Faces of a Rain Forest 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 […]
Monteverde Costa Rica, Home of the Quetzal 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 […]
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 […]