Blogs from Mindo, North, Ecuador, South America - page 3

so the other morning, a week or so ago, i woke up and wanted to brush my teeth but there was no pure water anywhere to be found.......so i used beer =) hahaha it was delicious, brilliant vicki we made it to mindo yesterday and this is a tropical cloud forest birdwatcher paradise. yesterday we walked into a little garden where there were hummingbird feeders and sat down for a few minutes....no lie, there were at least 50 hummingbirds all different colors shapes and sizes....it was amazing! we´re going to head back to Quito tomorrow and then into the Amazon on the 30th. check out the new pictures we put up yesterday. have a great day!... read more

Hello again! My first week in Quito is over and I'm off to the Galapagos tomorrow :) This weekend Danielle, Jorrik and I went to Mindo which is a small city about 2 hours away from Quito, but so totally different it's amazing! While Quito was cold and miserable and rainy when we left Mindo is slightly tropical (it's cloud forest there) humid and warm :) On the bus to Mindo we met a guy called Eric and has already spent 4 months travelling around South America and 1.5 of that in Galapagos! So he told me all about it and now I'm actually ueber excited to go there :) Apparently there is loads and loads to do so 6 weeks there doesn't seem so dauntingly long anymore. When we arrived at Mindo it was actually ... read more

I had a terrible nights sleep. It has done nothing but rain since I got here. The bird watch trip didn’t happen due to the rain. Last night I was kept awake by the rain on the tin roof, the dirty musty feel of the room and the sheets and the noise of someone walking downstairs. At one stage I thought if I could jump a donkey to get out of this place and back to Quito I would do that. It is so horrible here. Every time I do fall asleep I have nightmares and end up awake again. So I decide to listen to my Spanish tutorials. Spanish Vocabulary one. The tutorial starts of “how do we say horrible in Spanish, That’s right horreeeblee, now Now how do you say “I want to get ... read more

We have been in Mindo for 8 days now. To get here we took the bus from Quito northwest for about 50 miles. Going up out of the valley where Quito lies, over the mountains, then dropping down into the cloud forest. We went from about 9200 ft. elevation in Quito to 4100 ft in Mindo. We love it here, it is soooo mellow. It rains nearly every afternoon and many days it rains all night. We are in the clouds about 90% of the time. A couple of nights ago a heavy thunderstorm passed through Mindo about 9 PM. There was lots of thunder & lightening, strong winds and pouring rain. We usually leave all of our windows open all night because of the humidity but the wind was blowing the rain in. The ... read more

Mindo je mala dedinka v oblacnom lese, asi 2 hodiny autobusom a tiez nas dnesny ciel. Museli sme vstavat naozaj skoro, aby sme stihli autobus o 7.30, ktory nakoniec isiel o 8.00. Je to taka ospala diera kde nic vyznamne nieje a ktora zije len z turistov. Bolo tam hrozne teplo, dusno, vlhko a lepkavo, tak ako sme si to predstavovali, ale zazit to na vlastnej kozi bolo ovela horsie. My sme sa rozhodli ist k vodopadu - Cascada Nambillo. Kracali sme opustenou cestou cez prales a chvilami sme stracali nadej ci ideme dobre. Tiez nam miatli cedule ktore napriklad povedali 200 metrov a za dalsich 300 metrov tam bolo zase cedula ze 200 metrov. Tiez sme sa sikovne nedali oklamat ze na vstup k vodopadu potrebujeme listok na lanovku. Posledny usek nas k vodopadu doviedol ... read more