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Cloud Forest Hiking - Tour Description
With the assistance of a naturalist guide you will discover and learn about this unique ecosystem by hiking on mountain trails stopping to appreciate and receive interpretative information on flora and fauna. When you submit your holiday design, we will be able to specify your location for the cloud forest hiking and therefore go into more details. We make use of our large database of professional bilingual naturalist guides in most regions of the country.
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Additional Info - A walk in the clouds
Cloud forests are a particular type of tropical rainforest that occurs at specific tropical mountain areas and constitute unique ecosystems. Their distinctive weather conditions make them suitable for thousands of plants and animals that can be found nowhere else on earth. Low cloud banks form over the mountains such that the forest is actually immersed in clouds much of the time. When this happens, the relative humidity is 100%, making cloud forests exceedingly wet places. Large amounts of water are deposited directly onto vegetation from clouds and light mist; the highest elevations of the forest are almost always dripping water from the leaves. This constant supply of above-ground water makes a cloud forest excellent habitat for epiphytes (plants that grow on other plants). In the area surrounding Monteverde, Costa Rica, there are at least 878 species of epiphytes, including 450 orchids. To a visitor accustomed to drier temperate forests, the abundance of epiphytes is the most striking difference. Tree trunks are almost always covered with mosses, bromeliads, ferns, and other plants. Visitors are seldom able to view the whole forest because of the clouds and mists constantly drifting in and out amongst the trees. |
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