DAY 7 Friday 6 April 2018
Today we explored the Monteverde Cloud Forest from the bottom and the top -- well sort of -- but read on and you'll see what I mean. After breakfast, we went to the Reserva Biologica Bosque Nuboso for an amazing walk through the rainforest. This reserve atop the Continental Divide, which is more than 26,000 acres, is one of the most biologically diverse areas in the world. They claim over 3,000 known species of plants including over 750 tree species and over 500 known orchid species. There are 100 species of mammals, 400 bird species and 120 reptile and amphibian species. 6 ecological zones are represented in the area. The foliage was thick and lush in this forest with many thick hanging vines we were tempted to swing on, moss covering many trees, plants thriving on fallen logs and tangles of stems and vines climbing up trees while ferns circled the bottom. Here are just a few pictures I took but they certainly don't begin to show what an a...