Hello everybody on your computers. We continued our trip in Costa Rica, and visited Monteverde, which is in the cloud forest. A cloud forest is a type of forest similar to a rainforest, but higher in elevation and instead of having a lot of rain, there is a constant mist. There's 100% humidity in a cloud forest all the time. The other distinguishing feature of a cloud forest is that the moss grows all over the trees and branches, not just on one side, and this makes it a great environment for epiphytes to grow on the trees there. An epiphyte is basically a plant that grows on a host plant instead of in the ground and it's amazing how much stuff can grow on just one tree in the cloud forest.
There was a lot of cool stuff to see in Monteverde. Our first night there, we went to a place called Ranario, and "Rana" in Spanish means frog. They had a lot of different species of frogs that are found in Costa Rica. My favorite ones are the red-eyed tree frog, the green and black poison arrow frog and the glass frog. You can actually see through the glass frog and check out it's insides.
There was a lot of cool stuff to see in Monteverde. Our first night there, we went to a place called Ranario, and "Rana" in Spanish means frog. They had a lot of different species of frogs that are found in Costa Rica. My favorite ones are the red-eyed tree frog, the green and black poison arrow frog and the glass frog. You can actually see through the glass frog and check out it's insides.
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