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Originally Posted by Tindomul (Post 516949)

Wow, thank you for sharing. I want to visit so bad, as a child I never appreciated the flora or fauna of Colombia, just visited relatives.

it happens, i've traveled a lot around the country, and just now i realize what i've been missing

Such wonderful treasures. Thanks for sharing.

Great pictures santiago, thank you for sharing.

How wonderful to have these treasures growing in the environment so close to you. Lets hope they remain available for many to enjoy in the future.

I love Colombia! I've been there twice, but haven't yet gotten to see much of the countryside. There were epidenrums everywhere I looked. I've been around Medellín to that cloud forest park you can get to by air tram (fantastic way to go!), and in Fusagasuga (where they have the national flower [an orchid] of Colombia planted around the trunks of royal palms everywhere), and around Santa Marta, where I saw oncidiums growing on granite boulders very near the ocean, Arbaláez where a neighbor of a friend of mine grew quite a few orchids on her trees, she was probably over 80 years old, but you could see how much she loved those orchids. Didn't see any around Bogotá, but I'm sure they're there. My partner is from there, so now I doubly appreciate your country, who have the happiest people I've ever met.

Thank you for sharing! I'm amazed at the diversity. One of my friends recently got back from Colombia and showed my photos of this Masdevallia he found more than 2,500 meters above sea level! It's a pretty little thing.

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Originally Posted by ron-in-norcal (Post 537014)

thank you, and that cloud forest park you say it's called parque arvi, and it's where the second group of photos were taken

this christmas i'm going out again, in an exclusively orchid related travel. so expect more photos soon

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Originally Posted by santiago (Post 538109)

Hola Santiago, I look forward to seeing your photos. There were lots of interesting plants in Parque Arvi. Also, we had the best tamales I ever had from that lady who makes them from her own farm's produce there at the Parque terminal from the air tram, along with some amazing, fresh-squeezed strawberry juice.

Nice photos! :) Love the different species.

The species of Dichaea in the first photo is of Dichaea morrisii.

I visited on your orchid forum. Very fabulous picture Colombian orchids.