Mindo

Lago Mindo

I must say that Quito is definitely the nicest Latin American capitals I have been so far. Quite small, we saw basicly everything when walked around the town and looked the buildings for two days. Checked the golden church and climbed up to the cathedral clocktower. 

We came to Mindo for the weekend. Needed some nature time in very beautiful cloudforest. Tons of hummingbirds and other birds also (saw different kinds of toucans), orchids and flowers. And restaurants! Boy, quinoa restaurant with homemade ice cream (passionfruit with mint and hint of chili was my favorite!), chocolate factory with organic coffee, german cakeshop, proper kiviuuni pizzeria,.. Were we suppose to do something else than eating? :D

Saturday evening we went to a frogs concert ;) so romantic! Lago Mindo is home for more than 20 species of frogs. We sat in the balcony drinking wine and listening different sounds, surprisingly I could hear at least three different frog sounds. Saw a two colored snake and way too many spiders for my like. But it was a very nice tour, the lake itself was very idyllic. Sunday we hiked to the cloudforest to do some ziplining. So awesome! 500m long and don't know even how high we were, but those views :D