The city is placed in the cloud forest, a lovely setting.
We arrived Friday evening and Saturday we went to a tarabita (a cable car) that took us to a sanctuary of waterfalls, where we hiked to the different waterfalls and bathed in them. We had a lot of fun doing this until it started raining heavily and we had to hike one hour back in the rain!
In the afternoon we pampered ourselves with a chocolate tour! It was a tour explaining how you make chocolate and afterwards we finished with brownies, chocolate tea and chocolate, in bigger amounts than what we could finish.
Sunday morning we went bird-watching in Mindo and the trip was amazing! I saw six toucans in total and lots of other birds as well. We each had a pair of binoculars and our guide had a telescope, so that we could watch all the birds up close. As we were only 2 persons on the tour we got lots of time at the telescope each and the trip took almost 4 hours. What I would recommend others is to go on the tour and to bring both a camera with a good zoom (to take pictures on its own of the birds) and to bring a smartphone with a good camera (to take pictures through the telescope).
Before we went home we also managed to visit the butterfly house and a garden, where you could sit down and watch lots of hummingbirds.
All in all I had an amazing trip to Mindo and it is on my list of favorite places in Ecuador.
And I have realized how much I love toucans.
I have made a short video from my trip to Mindo that can be seen below together with a few pictures.
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| Tarabita |
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| The Cloud Forest Skyskoven |
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| The Cloud Forest Skyskoven |
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| Waterfall Vandfald |
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| Toucan Tukan |
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| Toucan Tukan |
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| A butterfly leaving its pupa En sommerfugl, der forlader sin puppe |
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| Even when it snows I'm wearing flowers in my hair - Oh wait, what? Selv når det sner, bærer jeg blomster i håret - Vent, hvad? |
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| Hummingbird Kolibri |
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| Hummingbird Kolibri |
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| Hummingbird Kolibri |
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| Hummingbird Kolibri |
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| Hummingbird Kolibri |
Skyskoven er et fantastisk sted.
Vi ankom fredag aften og søndag startede vi med at tage til tarabitaen (en kabelbane), hvor vi kunne vandre rundt til en masse vandfald. Vi badede i vandfaldene, hvilket var meget sjovt indtil det begyndte at regne og vi var en time væk fra kabelbanen.
For at pleje os selv lidt tog vi på chokoladetur om eftermiddagen. Turen forklarede hvordan man laver chokolade og som afslutning fik vi brownies, chokoladete og mere chokolade end vi kunne spise.
Søndag morgen tog vi ud for at observere fugle sammen med en guide. Vi havde hvert vores kikkert og vores guide bar rundt på et stort teleskop, så vi kunne se alle fuglene tæt på. Siden vi havde guiden for os selv fik vi hver især masser af tid ved teleskopet til at observere fuglene. Jeg så seks tukaner i alt og mange andre fuglearter. Jeg ville klart anbefale turen til andre. En anbefaling til andre ville være at medbringe et kamera med et godt zoom til at tage billeder med, og derudover en smartphone med et godt kamera til at tage billeder igennem teleskopet med.
Før vi tog hjem nåede vi også forbi sommerfuglehuset og en have, hvor vi kunne observere kolibrier.
Min tur til Mindo var helt igennem fantastisk, og jeg har indset, at jeg er vild med tukaner!
Inden den danske del af indlægget har jeg lagt en video ind fra min tur til Mindo, og derudover også et par få billeder.
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