Dervala In The Cloud Forest

My Blogger of the Day for September 1, Dervala Hanley, likes to take these little trips ... like down 2000 meter drops into Ecuadorian rainy cloud forests.

Clouds have a power here that lowland countries never experience. In my indoor, mostly sea-level life, I looked up occasionally and noticed an especially fluffy cumulus, or a gray bank that looked 'threatenin' ', as we say at home. In the Andes, a wall of white rolls towards you, not above you, like smoke along the floor of a burning building. You watch it swallow trees and ridges ahead of you, knowing that soon you will be walking through a cold sauna, and that taking off your glasses won't clear the pearly fog.

Read all about it here.