Invariably, the cloud forest will seem well named, as tendrils of mist drift through the canopy.

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You'll be hot on the trail of tropical flora and fauna on an included half-day cloud forest safari.

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Corcovado has roughly 13 types of vegetation, including a cloud forest, a mangrove and a freshwater herbaceous swamp.

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Drive just 10km east from Papallacta and you enter the Amazon Basin's cloud forest, which covers the slopes and the valley in green growth.

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The park, linked to the casino resort by two bridges, will include two greenhouses: the Flower Dome and Cloud Forest, totaling almost four football fields of space.

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Its 500 producers, who speak only Keqchi and Pokomchi, grow coffee and cardamom on shady forested plots in the buffer zone of the magnificent cloud forest of Sierra de las Minas.

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At times it is as though they are playing games, hovering in the distance, then beside your ear for a moment, then gone again, evaporating like the water that nourishes this cloud forest and the town at its edge.

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But the forest is often obscured by cloud.

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