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My return to Ecuador, this time i went alone, and for 3month, to learn spanish. now it is like my second home, and i know i will return! (text is in swiss-german...sorry guys..but i don't wanna translate...but there are also a lot of pictures)

On Saturday  we travelled 2 1/2 hours to Mindo, a village set in the cloud forest on the western slopes of Pichincha.  It was a beautiful semi-jungle location, much warmer and brighter than Quito has become int he last few days!  The first stop was a tranquil waterfall on the nearby river, where there was the option of jumping 12 metres from an overlooking rockface into the river below.  Somewhat against my previously cautios nature (previous to May I hadn´t even att...

I want to introduce You my Ecolodge in the Cloudforest of Mindo, Ecuador. I welcome whichever question about travelling this wonderful country

Equador-is one of the best places to go to. Even after i promised to myself not to go to the same place twice...unless i've been everywhere, i would deffinetly go back there if i had a chance.

Mindo was a nice warm town in the cloud forest region. The highlight here was ‘Canopy Cables’, which are like long flying foxes in and over the cloud forest tree tops.  We hung upside down from the cable as we hurtled down between the trees.  I also saw many hummingbirds and got some nice photographs of them, although it is very difficult to catch them in one place.  They are more like bees than birds.