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Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica
En tur i en skyskov
... billigere at tage nogle af de private reservater der støder op til nationalparken, så det gjorde vi. Området hed Santa Elena Forest Reserve, og man kunne godt se at regnskoven var anderledes end det vi havde set før. Til gengæld var dyrelivet ikke ...
Flying yet again
After our nihttime advenutre with the sloths and turantulas, we headed home to rest up for our Canopy Tour - Monteverde's coveted attraction - the next morning. Due to to our neighbors finding a scorpion in their bag, classically, Dan slept like a rock, ...
A cool mountain getaway from the heat
... strange looking bees and some massive flying ants. After two long hours we reached the top and had a nice view of the Monteverde cloud forest below. As expected, it was a bit cloudy on the ridges so we couldn´t see Volcan Arenal that you can normally ...
A Walk In The Clouds
We awoke this morning to the songs of birds. After getting ready we went to the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve and hired a guide, Juan Carlos, to show us around. It ended up being important to have a guide as we would have never seen several ...
Monteverde
Von La Fortuna ging es mit "Jeep-Boat-Jeep" nach Monteverde. Nach einer abendteuerlichen Fahrt erreichten wir Monteverde und quartierten uns gleich im Hotel ein, welches unser Fahrer uns empfohlen hatte. Am nächsten Tag besuchten wir den Nationalpark ...
Monteverde - Cloudforests, 25th Birthdays and ATVs
... Arenal, its about 2 hours drive away by car. Unfortunately we were completely clouded in so no show for us that day. Celebrated my 25th birthday and started to ease into the Central American way of life - pura vida in costa rica. I'm down with ...
Monteverde
... stretch of road you can imagine. It was so bumpy, I felt pretty nauseous by the time we arrived. Monteverde is famous for its cloud forest, and jungle hikes. But Vicky and I wanted none of it. We were here for some ...
Monteverde Cloud Forest
... restaurant owned by a local family. We were up and ready by 730a on Sunday for a hike through the Santa Elena cloud forest reserve, for some more wildlife sightseeing. We had really nice weather in the morning (which actually made the cloudforest not as ...
monteverde and el sol
... (a norwegian and rumanian who were students at Univ of Wisconsin in Madison) to drive to the Monteverde Cloud Forest to meet Andrea, a Costa Rican guide and also a Univ of Costa Rica natural resources management graduate and who is Javiers ...
Travel Day
... ) his sister making up songs in Spanish and some birdcalls we can’t identify. Josh smelled exhaust fumes as we drove down Costa Rica’s main highway. The highway is two lanes (one each way) and cars get backed up behind slow-moving, ...
Auf Schotterpisten nach Santa Elena
... )), aber lecker. Nach dem Fruehstueck haben wir uns dann auf den letzten Abschnitt unserer Reise gemacht (der Norden von Costa Rica). Morgens haben wir noch den Reisefuehrer angeschaut und haben uns so gewundert warum man fuer knapp 50km nach Monteverde / ...
Arrive in Monteverde after a tough ride
... final leg up into the cool, misty mountain air of the Monteverde cloud forest. Spend two days exploring Monteverde and the Cloud Forest Reserve, including a guided tour of the cloud forest—the local guides are extremely knowledgeable about the area ...
The school and travel to MonteVerde
... I would be very pleased to have Andrew attend. We arrived in Monteverde checked into our rooms and went on a night tour of the cloud forest. We saw a really big sloth with baby in a close tree, lots of racoons, a large tarantula and amny insects. ...
Day 7, Saturday 08/08/09
... We took a 25 minute taxi ride (3400 colones each for round trip, about $7) down a huge mountain to where the nature reserve is. It took us about 45 minutes of hiking around trees, over rivers/streams and climbing rocks to finally get to the ...
More Monteverde Pictures!
Here are some more pictures from our visit to the Cloud Forest region of Monteverde! The next stop will be Tortuguero National Park. See if you can find it on the ...
Monteverde
Sweet and High
... to us. Although we didn´t see monkeys a highlight was finding a female trantula sleeping in a treetrunk. The Quakers came to Monteverde in the late ´50´s to escape the draft. They have established quite a dairy business here as well as good schools ...
Monteverde Cloud Forest (Day 12)
From the central valley, we ascend into the cool, misty mountain air of the Monteverde cloud forest region. Here spend a couple of days exploring the town and a cloud forest reserve, truly a bird lover's paradise. This unique community has several ...
Feb 07, 2011
Day 8, Sunday 08/09/09
... brought 2 bottles of shampoo and no conditioner so I've been going without for a week) and lastly, I bought a cd of the best of Costa Rican rock/pop music over the last 20 years. We packed up, and checked out of the hotel and I took a few last minute ...
Hiking in the Rain
This weekend I took a 4/5 hour bus ride to visit the Cloud Forest Reserve in MonteVerde. The bus ride was an adventure in itself going up the side of the mountain on a barely-there road praying the bus driver had done this once before. I had ...
More Monteverde
Hi Everyone, Here are the photos from my Monteverde Trip. Although I didn't see too many animals (only a quetzal and a HUGE possum) I did do an AWESOME zipline through Selvatura. There are 18 platforms and 1 Tarzan swing. I already posted the Tarzan swing ...
Update
So we arrived yesterday to find that we are allowed very little time on the computers here... Haha our eletricity usage is restricted period. But all is well, we are staying very busy with many different activities. I wont update ...
Supermen and Suntan’s
... to the Nicaragua boarder and walked our way over to Costa Rica. It was here we decided that our first destination in Costa Rica should be Monteverde, as a woman at the hostel had told us it should not be missed. Knowing Costa Rica was going to be a lot ...
Canopy tour
Escape to the Mountains
... my bus was on ´hora ingles´(English hour) i.e. on time! (We have the reputation for being very punctual here in Costa Rica! After a short nap I got chatting to a Swiss girl who was heading for Monteverde National Park (like all the other backpackers on ...
Coffee Tour - Sky Walk - Night Walk
Nach einem super feinen Frühstück sind wir auf eine Coffee-Tour. Wir wurden vor unserem Hotel abgeholt und zu einem kleinen Ort gefahren, wo eine Familie wohnt, welche sich selbst versorgt. In ihrem grossen Garten pflanzen sie z.B. Zitrusfrüchte, ...
Up, up up!
... we arrived in one piece yesterday. Due to its elevation, Monteverde is the "coldest" place we´ll visit in Costa Rica. They call this area a "Cloud Forest" and it really is wreathed in clouds. It seems to rain daily here but not all day. We ...
Tarzan Swing Shannanigans
Hi Everyone! I just got back from Monteverde. Here's me on the Tarzan Swing. I'm going to post pictures and a full entry in the next few days. Let's just say the movie speaks for itself! :D ...
Walking in the Clouds
After leaving San Jose we arrived in Monteverde. Monteverde is a tiny town set amongst Costa Rica´s best cloud forest, it is a great place to trek through the jungle and see loads of wildlife! For our first night in Monteverde we decided to do a night ...