Monteverde Cloud ForestThe Monteverde Cloud Forest is a breathtaking natural setting, and home to several rare and endangered species. Protecting and preserving the cloud forest is partly a matter of protecting the surrounding environment, and Costa Rica has made a strong commitment to that goal through careful land and water management and reforestation.

The steep rutted dirt road passes through mile after mile of dry, brown pasturelands – a landscape that was once verdant forest, until humans entered the picture. All the more reason to appreciate what you find at the top of the mountain: a lush, tangled swath of greenery, where orchids and ferns trail from the treetops while monkeys chatter, tree frogs croak, and hummingbirds hum. More >