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1000places > MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - We saw a few birds through the guide's spotting scope - but most of the wildlife had better sense than to sit out in the rain posing for us. We did see a lot of rainforest flora, however, including this heliconia.
1000places > MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - Now we know these are hummingbirds (the feeder is a good clue).
1000places > MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - Among the flora and fauna we saw on our hike through the cloud forest was this bird (hummingbird?). We really have to get better in identifying our plants and animals.
1000places > MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - We joined a guided hike through the cloud forest. Positioned atop the Continental Divide, the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve extends down both the Caribbean and Pacific slopes creating a half dozen distinct "micro-climates."
1000places > MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - We stayed at the Hotel Belmar, two chateaus built by a Costa Rican couple who had previously lived in Austria. Perched high on a hillside, the hotel overlooks the Gulf of Nicoya.
1000places > MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - Hiking back from town and looking like a real naturalist.
1000places > MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - There's not much to the village of Monteverde. During our first excursion into the town, we stopped by this gift shop, featuring crafts and other items made by local women.
1000places > MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - From La Fortuna, we traveled to the Monteverde "cloud forest." Here we first learned the word garua - defined as "more than a mist but not quite a drizzle." Unlike a rainforest, there is sunshine in a cloud forest; just every few minutes, a garua blows through.
1000places > Costa Rica means "rich coast" in Spanish. We picked it as the destination for our retirement vacation - the first time in more than 25 years that we could go somewhere for longer than two weeks. We found an amazing country where education, health care, and now environmental preservation are clearly national priorities. And we found Costa Ricans - Ticos are their common name - to be genuinely friendly with touristas.
MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - We saw a few birds through the guide's spotting scope - but most of the wildlife had better sense than to sit out in the rain posing for us. We did see a lot of rainforest flora, however, including this heliconia.
1000places > MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - We saw a few birds through the guide's spotting scope - but most of the wildlife had better sense than to sit out in the rain posing for us. We did see a lot of rainforest flora, however, including this heliconia.
MONTEVERDE, COSTA RICA - We saw a few birds through the guide's spotting scope - but most of the wildlife had better sense than to sit out in the rain posing for us. We did see a lot of rainforest flora, however, including this heliconia.
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