{"id":269,"date":"2009-01-03T21:00:43","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anirama.com\/costarica\/?p=269"},"modified":"2011-11-06T19:04:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T19:04:40","slug":"los-angeles-cloud-forest-reserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/2009\/01\/03\/los-angeles-cloud-forest-reserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Cloud Forest Reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another 45 minutes of travel and we stopped at the Los Angeles Cloud Forest Reserve where we had a 45 walk with a naturalist through the cloud forest. More leaf cutter ants(!) and some beautiful birds were the most visible wildlife, plus we learned more about the flora of a cloud forest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 333px;\"><a title=\"Oliver - Our Nature Guide by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3196331036\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3084\/3196331036_01bef0b66b.jpg\" alt=\"Oliver - Our Nature Guide\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oliver, our naturalist guide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 333px;\"><a title=\"Cloud Forest, and Me by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3196331402\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3109\/3196331402_49acb6ea66.jpg\" alt=\"Cloud Forest, and Me\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cloud forest, and me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 333px;\"><a title=\"More Leaf Cutter Ants! by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3195486787\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3379\/3195486787_db5cafd171.jpg\" alt=\"More Leaf Cutter Ants!\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">More leaf cutter ants! The worker ant has cut the leaf and is carrying it back to the nest. The smaller ant you see on the leaf is a nurse &#8211; she&#8217;s cleaning the leaf and will help grow fungus on the leaves inside the nest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a title=\"Leaf Cutter Ant Nest by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3196331940\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3329\/3196331940_03b2d76fa5.jpg\" alt=\"Leaf Cutter Ant Nest\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This leaf cutter ant nest is over 10 years old. What you see here is about 8 feet in diameter, and very fragile. If you were to step on it it could collapse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a title=\"Insect Nest by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3195487319\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3503\/3195487319_71760f9efb.jpg\" alt=\"Insect Nest\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Built on the bottom of a giant leaf, this nest is home to either bees or wasps &#8211; I didn&#8217;t stick around to find out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" style=\"width: 500px;\"><a title=\"Beauty by r o s e n d a h l, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rosendahl\/3196332204\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3510\/3196332204_aaf9cfb601.jpg\" alt=\"Beauty\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the many beautiful birds we saw in the cloud forest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Twenty minutes of the drive to and from the cloud forest was along a twisty two way, one lane, road. Normally not that unique or interesting, unless you\u2019re doing it in a tour bus with small trucks coming the other way. Marcos proved his skills.<\/p>\n<p>A half an hour further down the road and we stopped for lunch, then on to Doubletree in Puntarenas for the next two nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another 45 minutes of travel and we stopped at the Los Angeles Cloud Forest Reserve where we had a 45 walk with a naturalist through the cloud forest. More leaf cutter ants(!) and some beautiful birds were the most visible wildlife, plus we learned more about the flora of a cloud forest. Oliver, our naturalist <a href='https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/2009\/01\/03\/los-angeles-cloud-forest-reserve\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,77],"tags":[83,87,24,92,97,101,60],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-costa-rica","category-jan-03-09","tag-ants","tag-bird","tag-carl","tag-fauna","tag-hike","tag-insect","tag-tour","category-123-id","category-77-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anirama.com\/travelogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}