Mindo - Cloud Rainforest in Ecuador

So we left Quito at 6am on the bus to Mindo. (I will fill you in on the day trip through Quito later).

It took 2 and half hours to get from Quito to the turn off to Mindo, where you grab a truck down into the town. The road is windy and bumpy, but the views are beautiful! We stopped in town to buy water and a few things before heading to the hotel (bonus of traveling with your parents - they don´t do $10 per night hostels!).

The place is amazing, and so affordable!! The main hotel building is beautiful - it has a big dining room which has great cheap meals and a loft upstairs with television and chess. The rooms are all separate from the main building - small cabins tucked away in the forest throughout the property. AMAZING! We have a room in a cabin right on the Mindo River with three beds. Since it is the slow part of the year, there aren´t many guests, so I don´t think the other three rooms in the cabin are occupied.


This is my bed in our hotel room!


Here is the view from the window at the head of the bed. Paradise! I could have spent all day sitting on that bench and relaxing!

We got to our room and all took long naps before getting lunch and arranging for a taxi to take us to the cable car, the ziplines through the tree canopy, and then to the orchid farm. I will tell you all about those later with all the details and the photos. Right now, I am in search of soy milk in a tiny town in Ecuador.

Deseanme suerte!