Comprising a Life

The Bonsai, Travels and Haiku of Vaughn Banting

Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve

This large reserve is one of the most outstanding wildlife sanctuaries in the Americas and includes eight distinct ecological zones. It protects more than 400 species of birds (including the Resplendent Quetzal) and over 100 species of mammals.  

Road to Monteverde

Final approach road to Monteverde

At the center

John and Paul entering forest under tree ferns

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Bed and breakfast we stayed in

Paul reading up on next day's adventure

Lush vegatation

On the trail

Staring up

In the cloud forest

Every parking place taken

Me by a large tree

John by a big log that was never hauled out

More open view

Paul gazing at a quetzal

Through philodendron leaves

Unsuspected spines

Bromeliads

Cloud forest

Cloud forest

Cloud forest

Cloud forest

Soil created in the tree tops

Epiphytes everywhere

Lush vegetation

End of Monteverde pictures.