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Bosque Nuboso Monteverde
Green-crowned brilliant hummingbird
MINT IMAGES - FRANS LANTING / GETTY IMAGES ©
A pristine expanse of virginal forest totaling 105 sq km,
Monteverde Cloud Forest
owes much of its impressive natural beauty to Quaker expats, who left the US in
the 1950s to protest the Korean War and helped foster conservationist principles
with Ticos of the region. But as fascinating as the history is, the real romance of
Monteverde is in nature itself: a mysterious Neverland dripping with mist, dangling
with mossy vines, sprouting with ferns and bromeliads, gushing with creeks, bloom-
ing with life and nurturing rivulets of evolution.
