Northern Mountains offer swinging bridges and zip lines from which to survey, the canopy; a butterfly farm and a hummingbird garden to get you close to nature; a factory that shows you how to make cheese. And, of course, the Cloud Forest Preserve itself, one of the top ten ecotourism destinations in the world.
But somehow Northern Mountains perplexed me. More than 40 small hotels, several trendy coffee shops and a handful of pizza parlors line the road to the Preserve. Scruffy tourists with English-language slogans on their back-packs and American sports teams on their baseball caps were everywhere. Where was campesino life? Had it disappeared with the golden toad? Was it possible to find both the cloud forest and Costa Rica rural culture too? |
Geographical Division 
