Debbi and I spent most of our four weeks at Tapichalaca Reserve in a cloud. A real cloud. This makes for a very lush forest. Epiphytes of all sorts–bromeliads, ferns, mosses, orchids, etc. cover the branches and trunks of many of the cloud forest trees.
The road to Peru on the landslide-cluttered flanks of Cerro Tapichalaca
Gunnera, a common roadside plant here, often with leaves well over a meter. AKA poor-man’s umbrella
Extensive forest of Tapichalaca Reserve – home of the Jocotoco
Treeferns in cloud forest
Epiphyte laden tree
An epiphytic bromeliad, Guzmania
Plants growing on plants growing on plants along the trail.
Debbi and Diego on the trail
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