Best Monteverde Tours from San Jose, Costa Rica

Monteverde, Costa Rica is a small community in Puntarenas, Costa Rica, about a four hour drive from the Central Valley. As one of Costa Rica's major ecotourism destinations, the area is host to the Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve and numerous other reserves. The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve contains a great number of orchids and other species, and has been called "the jewel in the crown of cloud forest reserves" by National Geographic. Interestingly, the town of Monteverde was originally founded by Quakers from the United States dodging the Korean War draft.