Monteverde Fig Tree (5-13)

On our last day in Monteverde, we hiked to the nearby waterfall and famous fig tree. Fig trees are ¨stranglers¨ meaning they grow off of another tree, entangle it, grow around it, steal light and nutrients from the host tree, and eventually stangle it to death. The host tree then dies and decomposes. So some very old, very tall fig trees are completely hollow. There is one just like this in Monteverde and we climbed, inside of it, to the top of the forest canopy. It was really frightening. But really fun. It was like a chuck-e-cheese jungle gym thing for big kids. It was hard to take pictures of, but here are my best:

Waterfall:




Climbing to the top of the fig:



The canopy view:

There was a creepy guard monkey, up top. It was weird: