Santa Elena Reserve Costa Rica
MoonRun Monteverde, Costa Rica 2014
13 Dec 2014 - Santa Elena, Monteverde, Costa Rica
Start of the 6K Fun Trail as part of the MoonRun Ultra Trail Race through the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in the central highlands of Costa Rica.
The Monteverde Butterfly Garden COSTA RICA http://triptepare.com/
The Monteverde Butterfly Garden -- known locally as the Mariposario -- is one of Monteverde's most visited attractions. Situated in Cerro Plano, which lies between the town of Santa Elena and the Monteverde Reserve, the Butterfly Garden is comprised of four climate-controlled butterfly gardens, a medicinal plant garden, a biodiversity center, and a live leafcutter ant colony. Here visitors can observe some of the most fascinating and beautiful insects in all of the tropics.
Costa Rican Times Presents the Monteverde Butterfly Garden Tour
The Costa Rican Times Visits the Monteverde Butterfly Garden
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Orchid Garden edit.mp4
Orchid Garden in Monteverde, Costa Rica. Beauty!
Walking in Santa Elena Reserve
Walking in Santa Elena Reserve - Costa Rica
New Orchid Garden Opening in Monteverde
Le jardin des Orchidées de Monteverde, Costa Rica
Pour ceux qui aiment les orchidées il y a une multitude de renseignements donné par le guide et d'autres recueillis sur Wikipédia.
Costa Rica Monteverde Cloud Forest Guided Hike Orchids Part 3 at LeaningTraveler.com
Costa Rica Monteverde Cloud Forest, locate this place with the LeaningTraveler Costa Rica App and hire a local guide in Costa Rica. The local guide will explain in depth the animals, birds, and plants of Costa Rica Monteverde Cloud Forest.
Costa Rica - Monteverde
Costa Rica, NP Monteverde
Coffee tour on a small farm near Monteverde, Costa Rica
This video shows a coffee tour on a small farm near Ecolodge San Luis (Monteverde, Costa Rica).
The interviewer (Marianne) talks with the owner in Spanish, with explanation in Dutch (Marianne and Fred) and English (Fred)
Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve - Costa Rica
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve is dedicated to preserve the multiple species of flora and fauna in Costa Rica. It's visited annually by a great number of national and foreign tourists.
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Costa Rica: Monteverde Cloud Forest - International Living
The Monteverde Cloud Forest - International Living
Just three and a half hours or so northwest of San José, Costa Rica's capital and site of the main international airport, is a unique mountain community. Monteverde, with its main town Santa Elena, is the site of a large protected swath of land, including the cloud forest the area is best known for. This is a type of high-altitude rain forest where the clouds sweep through the trees, leaving a lush, moisture-rich environment. Trees are covered in orchids, moss, and bromeliads. And species like three-toed sloths, capuchin monkeys, and the elusive resplendent quetzal make their home here.
It's a great place to visit for hikes in the rain forest, cool nights on the mountain, and stunning vistas. And a close-knit expat community has grown up over the years, including retirees and tourism business owners.
In the video below, International Living Costa Rica Editor Jason Holland explores the cloud forest in Monteverde and meets some local residents on the trail.
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Crossing the Bridge at the Monteverde Cloud Forest, Monteverde, Costa Rica
MONTEVERDE EXPERTS - NIGHT TOUR
MONTEVERDE EXPERTS - COFFEE TOUR
Selvatura Park - Longest Zip-Line
The wife and I visited Selvatura Park in Monteverde, Costa Rica. This is the 16th of 16 and longest zip-line in the park - over 1km in length.
Monteverde Coffee Tour
To schedule a tour, visit cafedemonteverde.com
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Café de Monteverde was born in 1989 as an association of 12 families with deep roots in coffee, agriculture, conservation, and education. For over four generations, our families have grown, processed and roasted the best quality coffee in the Monteverde region, striving for harmony with the surrounding cloud forest.
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Coffee culture was first brought to Monteverde in the early 1930s by families from Costa Rica’s central valley. As descendants of that group of pioneers, we have treasured their legacy for years so we can share it with you today. We cover coffee production all the way from seed germination to ripe cherries, to processing as sun-dried beans, and roasting. Our main farm is located in Cañitas, close to the Monteverde Cloud Forest, where we also roast and monitor quality in our cupping laboratory. To date, we have continued diversifying production by maintaining an organic vegetable garden, raising goats, pigs, and hens, and conserving half of the land on this farm as forest, allowing for a balance between production and nature conservation. In 2008 we opened our LIFE Monteverde educational programs on sustainable production, bringing together our passion for coffee, our experience in agriculture and education, and our appreciation for the importance of educating future generations and coffee lovers of all ages. We invite you to join
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The tour begins with the history of Coffea arabica in its local economic, environmental and social context and the importance of coffee in the area’s development. Before delving deep into the world of coffee, we explore how a coffee farm can practice sustainability and preserve its cultural legacy by combining coffee farming and food production. The animals on our farm also help provide organic fertilizer for the coffee field and are a source of energy. You can pet and feed goats, operate a human-powered grass cutter, cuddle a baby pig, and try fresh herbs from our garden! As part of the tour, you also walk through primary and secondary forest, where we often spot sloths, hear a loud bellbird or identify many endemic plant and tree species, even native relatives of the coffee family, Rubiaceae. The rest of the tour is dedicated to learning about the coffee process, including seed germination, care of the plant, harvesting, processing, and roasting. We germinate our own seeds, carefully selected from over five varieties of Coffea arabica. Before a plant is able to produce coffee cherries, it must go through a preparation of up to 2.5 years. If a coffee plant is provided proper care, it can produce cherries for over 30 years! During harvest season visitors can harvest ripe cherries alongside workers who have years of experience manually picking high quality coffee cherries. We manually depulp coffee, wash it and lay it out to dry in the sun. However, Café de Monteverde has three different post-harvesting beneficio processes: natural process, honey process and fully washed process. This stage of natural fermentation adds different fruity, acid, and sweet notes the final cup. Once the fruit reaches the green bean stage, it is further sorted for quality and ready to store, ship or roast. The tour ends at the Monteverde Coffee Lab, our roasting and cupping facility, where you will taste five different coffee processes and roasts, allowing you to savor the nuances of each type. Although environmental and processing elements influence coffee flavor and aroma, roasting can enhance particular qualities. Throughout the tour, visitors learn how sustainability practices are incorporated into coffee farming. This includes mechanical weed management, preventative and biological pest control, minimizing use of synthetic fertilization, measuring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, preventing erosion, conserving and treating water, maximizing use of renewable energy, proper waste management of byproducts of the coffee process, and educating future generations on sustainable agriculture.
Santa Elena cloud forest
A slide show comprised of footage from the Santa Elena cloud forest reserve in Costa Rica.
bat tour Costa Rica- the bat jungle - monteverde
The bat jungle .Monteverde Costa Rica .
Very knowledgeable caretakers of the bats.
You'll learn about the bats and species etc before you go in with a quick guided intro, then you get to spend a very reasonable amount of time watching the bats in their natural environment . Will get great videos and pictures . Definitely worth it for some really cool
Shots you wouldn't get in the wild or a zoo
Bats sit right on the glass most times .
Highly recommended .