Mindo

As we did not like Quito very much (an understatement) we decided to spend our last days in Ecuador in Mindo. Mindo is a small tourist town in the cloud forests 2 hours away from Quito and famous for being the home of many many bird species, including several colibri types. We only spent two full days there and did one small hike, but mostly hung out on our hostel balcony (we initially had more plans for Mindo, but so had Alinas uterus 🤷🏻‍♀️). Again, the village was not to our liking: neither good-looking nor charming, expensive and no cobblestone streets (you mave have noticed the lack of cobblestone streets in Ecuador so far - we miss them ☹️). But the hike was nice and being adopted by another dog-for-a-day (we named him Dario Negro) surely made the trek even better 🥰 Another furry friend we would have taken home with us if we could have, but had to leave behind 💔 These heartbreaks are really getting out of hand!
Anyways, we also enjoyed that our hostel was a bit out of town and in the greenery, which meant quietness, seeing a lot of birds from our balcony including several resident colibris and invited us to even cook our own meals - a first during our travels and something we will for sure keep on going (if future kitchens will allow it 🙃)! In the end, we were very happy having chosen Mindo over Quito, but were also happy to leave Mindo to finally head to country number 8! 💃🏻Read more