Mindo
paradise
05.07.2007 - 12.07.2007
25 °C
Immediately after departing the bus you are hit with just how amazing a place it is, people smiling, greeting you as you walk the safe streets. It is quiet, relaxed, cheap the perfect getaway from the noise and chaos of Quito. My hostal, the casa de celilia is set on the river, amongst lush green vegetation, hummingbirds and butterflies zip in and out of the wooden buildings. The hostal owner cecilia greets me with a warm smile, and after showing me around, asks me to choose my own room. I select one overlooking the garden with only 3 walls.
After a day of walking around the area taking hundreds of photos of plants, flowers, birds, butterflies and buildings, I return to town and have dinner at the "reggae bar", the meal is great, and the building I eat it in even more so, wooden sculptures made with things found in the forest hang from the walls, which are themselves an artwork.
I walk back to the hostal, and after relaxing in a hammock for a while, go to bed. Laying safely under my mosquito net, i watch the fireflies dance over the forest, and a feeling of calm, and traquillity that had been building all day, becomes complete as a drift off to sleep to the sound of the river.
Posted by AndyB24 13.07.2007 08:18
Sounds divine Andy. I'm going to Ecuador next Sunday, to volunteer in a cloud forest reserve near Santa Domingo (La Hesperia) for ten weeks. Were there many mossies? Really hoping it'll be a bit high for them in the Andes.. Can't wait though!
10.09.2007 by Eleniki