El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico

La Tigra National Park

Pale-Mandibled Aracari. DSC01306

Savegre Hotel, San Gerardo de Dota, San José province, Costa Rica | July 9, 2017.

Mid-afternoon mist at Poas Volcano, Costa Rica. The high-altitude cloud forest is constantly foggy and cool.

Pale Mandibled Aracari in Mindo. DSC01323

Views of and from Wayqecha Research Station in the cloud forest

Cloudforest path on the trail to Machu Picchu

*nod to Russell Hoban*

Monteverde cloudforest, Costa Rica. Most of the mosture reach the forest as clouds, mist and fog rather than rain. This is a habitat with a huge bio diversity e.g 100 mammal species, 400 birds and 420 orchids species

Luxuriant vegetation seen in Selvatura cloudforest walkway, Monteverde, Costa Rica.

Seen in Bellavista Cloudforest Reserve.

Monteverde cloudforest, Costa Rica, March 2008. Most of the mosture reach the forest as clouds, mist and fog rather than rain. This is a habitat with a huge bio diversity e.g 100 mammal species, 400 birds and 420 orchids species

Lemon-Rumped (black and yellow birds) and Blue-Grey Tanagers feeding on bananas. The owner of the garden said he puts out one hundred bananas a day to keep the birds coming.

Monteverde cloudforest, Costa Rica. Most of the mosture reach the forest as clouds, mist and fog rather than rain. This is a habitat with a huge bio diversity e.g 100 mammal species, 400 birds and 420 orchids species

Near Paquisha, Ecuador

Tayra

Savegre River valley, Talamanca Mtns., Costa Rica. 13 February 2019. © Frank Mantlik

Sweet Peas

Lathyrus odoratus

Fam: Fabaceae

Orig: Med region.

Geraniums

Fam: Geraniaceae

Orig: Med region.

fairytale forest with the smallest bamboo I´ve ever seen, cloud forest at Volcano Poas

At the Cloud Forest, Gardens by the Bay.

Inside the cloud forest

Savegre Hotel, San Gerardo de Dota, San José province, Costa Rica | July 9, 2017.

Savegre Hotel, San Gerardo de Dota, San José province, Costa Rica | July 9, 2017.