San Luis Waterfall

The day after visiting Monteverde reserve we hiked to the waterfall San Luis, in the lower part of the cloud forest. It was a great walk and we only met 3 people on the way. It made us feel as if we were the only people in this breezing, alive forest- everything so lush and growing. As it was sprinkling almost constantly, the trails were pretty slippery but that made it feel more like a proper hike.

Clouds hanging in the trees at all times - hence the name Cloud Forest!

Over a few bridges...
Finally after 1.5 hours the waterfall! The photos don't do it justice. It was really huge and started way high in the cloud forest (on top of the picture in the middle the little gray line - that's a part of the waterfall).Usually you can swim in the pools around the waterfall but it was a bit chilly that day.

o.k. this is the last one.

We met some crawlies (luckily no spiders to that point!). We saw some large blue butterflies, but unfortunately they never sat down for us.

When the sun finally came out on our hike back, everything was even greener - almost blinding.Some more pretty flowers. The cloud forest is on continental divide. Monteverde is on the Pacific side. Outside the forest we could see all the way to the Pacific at a view point.