Costa Rica - another quick update (short)

We made it back to San José (Santo Domingo), our starting point, this afternoon. We spent one night at a cloud forest resort named Villa Blanca. A cloud forest is similar to a rain forest except instead of your typical heat, humidity and heavy rain the forest is at a higher elevation and usually on a sloping terrain such that it is actually in the clouds. Probably more what we would call fog but the clouds engulf the terrain which means everything is wet pretty much all the time.

Amazingly the flora and fauna are very similar to the coastal rain forest except it is generally cooler and, in the case of our visit, it was extremely cloudy and wet.

The clouds in the cloud forest

Moss collecting the cloud's water