A stunning orchid from the cloudforests of South America. Photographed at Chester zoo botanical collection.

I really love this place...it's heaven!

Diothonea group

Photographed in situ in southern Peru - it was raining when I took this.

Baños - Ecuador.

View from below.

Bye bye.

Cloud forest epiphytes, Santa Elena Cloud Forest Preserve, Puntarenas Prov., Costa Rica, 9 Aug 2004.

Wurgvijg (Ficus aurea)

Nevelwoud, Monteverde, Costa Rica

Trees are covered in epifites

The one-way road from Cusco to Manu National Park is the only way to readily see scenes such as this and when I took it in 1993 the Shining Path insurgents made that hazardous. Having left the bleak antiplano we have reached the cloud forest. Next stop the Amazon basin-the subject of a separate photo set.

Cloudforest at 2800 meters. Colombia. South of Jardin - Colombia.

San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica

Photographed at Parque Natural Chicaque, San Antonio de Tequendama, Colombia.

The mist comes on at the even hours of the day.

Cloud Forest, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore

One of two world's largest columnless glasshouses in the world. Higher but smaller than located nearby Flower Dome.

It contains mountain with the waterfall and top can be reached by elevator. Visitors can descend the mountain via a circular path.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardens_by_the_Bay

Maxine rides the tarabita over the cloud forest

A funny plant with gleaming appearance, grows warm to cool and it is found on montane forest around central valley from 1500 to 2000 meters.

Maxine rides the tarabita over the cloud forest

Taken from a bridge rising above the cloud forest makes it possible to see the forest canopy. The tree with the flat top near the center of the photo is an avocado tree.

Santa Cruz Turrialba, it is a section of the mountain with 4 sister water falls, 2 of them wih more than 100 meters high

Descending from 12,000 ft mountains into the Amazon Basin, a cloud forest develops

The mountains surrounding Cartago and San Jose at 1800 to 2200 meters high.

A stunning mountain-tanager in a stunning subtropical cloudforest tree.

Old Nono-Mindo Rd, NW Ecuador

3/8/2007

Location: Singapore

The tarabita (hand powered cable car)

Western Andes, Alambi, Near Tambayata, Ecuador

Ecuador

Monteverde Reserve, Costa Rica

May 8th, 2011 8:58 AM EST

Near Boquete, Chiriquí, Panama

Canon EOS REBEL T2i

18mm focal length

1/30th of a second, f/13, ISO 200

Approximate EV: 11

Photographed at Parque Natural Chicaque, San Antonio de Tequendama, Colombia.

More species of plant and animal life than virtually any other place on earth.

www.bellavistacloudforest.com/eecolo.html

El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico

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Inside one of the huge glasshouses at the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.

Location: Singapore

It replicates the cool moist conditions found in tropical mountain regions between 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) and 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) above sea level, found in South-East Asia, Middle- and South America. It features a 42-metre (138 ft) "Cloud Mountain", accessible by an elevator, and visitors will be able to descend the mountain via a circular path where a 35-metre (115 ft) waterfall provides visitors with refreshing cool air.