Saturday, September 13, 2008
Cloud Forest - Night and Day
We traveled 5 hours - but scarcely 100 miles - northwest on Costa Rica's winding mountainous roads, to get from the Arenales Volcano recreation area to Monteverde National Park and its cloud forest...
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We took nature hikes through the cloud forest, first at night, then in the morning. A cloud forest is a drier rain forest, I suppose. Here, our guard caught some sort of praying mantis...
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At the ranger station, a snake in a jar...
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The next morning we missed the tour, but the our hotel owner called her friend, a guide-in-training. He looked for tarantulas - and found one!! Don't try this at home, kids...
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I love old, gnarly trees with a outsize tangle of roots..
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