Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve

Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserve

Santa Elena, Costa Rica

Reviewed July 3rd, 2006

How does a cloudforest become a Cloudforest Reserve? Well, first the forest candidate must make a simple phone call to the Reserve Office. "Hello? Yeah, my name is Santa Elena. Uh huh. Yeah, I'm a forest near Monteverde and I'd like to make a reservation for oh... 30,000 hectares. Do you have any space available? Oh you do? Great! Yes. Right. I have clouds most of the time, monkeys, and all the green stuff. Yes, I'll accept visitors. Sure... Sure. Alrighty are you ready for my Visa number?"

In keeping with the cloud forest itself, the toilets at the visitor center are wet and have nothing available to see. I checked each bathroom and only one women's contained any toilet paper. A sign on the inside of one toilet reads: DO NOT PUT PAPER OR SANITARY PRODUCTS IN STOOL ˇFISH IT OUT! Thankfully, there were no sanitary products in my stool, or else I might have had to go fishing, and where, I ask, would I get a license? Yeah, and uh, where are you gonna get the paper anyway? The visitor center doesn't provide it.

- Justin Teerlinck

RESTROOM RATING: 2
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