The past four days I have spent in Mindo. Mindo is 2 hours from Quito, is in the cloud forest and is renowned for being one of the places with the highest wildlife biodiversity in the world. A cloud forest is is a generally tropical or subtropical evergreen montane moist forest characterized by a high incidence of low-level cloud cover, usually at the canopy level. It is usually found at the eastern slopes of tropical and subtropical mountain ranges, mostly above 800 m. In the Bosque Protector Mindo Nambillo live around 500 speicies of bird, including many different hummingbirds, toucans, motmots, quetzals, vultures and new species are still being discovered. Furthermore, pumas, bears and other mammals have been seen here. In the bus to Mindo I met Megan, a young American, who had spent a couple
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