Tropical Rainforest

White-Faced Capuchin

In March, when we went to Costa Rica, we saw many amazing things like the tropical rainforest. The tropical rain forest is really humid, dense, and warm, because of the annual rainfall of 125-660 cm per year. In tropical rainforests the biodiversity is huge, and the plants produce most of the oxygen of the earth. Trees are really tall because they have lots of water to grow and they try to reach the sunlight. There is a thick layer of leaves that forms on the floor when the leaves fall of the trees; these leaves are wet unlike the ones at the dry forest. As we were walking through the rainforest we saw many kinds of animals like a white-faced capuchin monkey, a white-nosed coati, a mantled-howler monkey, a keeled billed toucan, and a squirrel cuckoo. We saw all this animals in many places, for example, in the first camp at Santa Maria, in the walk to the thermal springs and to the little cascade, and in the walk to the volcano. And as we were walking or resting we could hear all this animals’ sounds and the mantled-howler monkeys wake us all the mornings at the first camp.  During this hike we felt great and we were really excited, although we sweat a lot because of the humidity of the forest! Everything we saw make us feel awesome and happy.

Cascade La Cangreja

We saw the tropical rain forest during two hikes. The first walk was the one with the big bags, we pass through the rain forest and we saw the most of the animals listed in the previous paragraph. During this walk we sweat a lot because of all the humidity, but fortunately it didn't rained. The second time we pass through a rain forest was in the walk to the cascade La Cangreja. In this walk we saw most of the animals, too.  This walks were great and we were able to learn a lot about the rain forest.