November 18, 2003

  Venezuela

Wyatt in Henry Pittier
A Daily Photo Essay of My Journey

The Henry Pittier National Park is only one of 3 cloud forests in the world.  The other two are in Malaysia and Costa Rica.  A classified cloud forest must be in a coastal mountain at least 800 meters (2400 feet) above sea-level. The Venezuelan forest has these huge trees called Boy Trees that reach hundreds of feet into the upper canopy.
 

The Cloud Forest

A strangler vine at the lower trunk of a boy tree

Empiphytes