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Mindo is a small town in the Andean foothills of Ecuador. Set in beautiful cloud-forest, it attracts birdwatchers first and foremost, but also has attractions for other tourists.

Contents 1 Get in 2 See 3 Do 4 Buy 5 Eat 6 Drink 7 Sleep 8 Get out

Get in

There are bus services from Santo Domingo and Quito. As of August 2006, the bus is $2.00 each way from Quito and it is not possible to buy a round trip ticket in Quito. If you are going for a day trip, you should buy your return ticket immediately upon arrival in Mindo or you are at risk of not being able to return that day. If you are staying more than a day, buy your return trip at least one day in advance or first thing in the morning. If there are no seats left on the returning buses, it is possible to rent a car and a driver from the transportation company across the street and up the block for $40-50.

See

Do

• Visit one of the orchid farms.
• Visit the casacada (waterfall): entrance is about $3, and it takes about 45 minutes of walking to reach the waterfall and its mini-resort. Be sure to take some drinking water with you, and check with a guide at the resort before using the water-slide or (for the adventurous, but only when the river is at the right height) going over the fall.
• Try to entice tropical butterflies to eat banana from your hands at the Mindogarden butterfly farm.
• Travel downriver in an inner tube. This is called a regata and can be arranged in almost any shop; it is expensive because the prices are fixed by a cartel.
• Hire a local guide to take you birdwatching.

Buy

Eat

Note: even at the relatively low altitude of Mindo it seems to be impossible to cook edible rice.

• Omarcito serves good food at reasonable prices.
• El Chef is rather unusual in being essentially a steakhouse. Slightly expensive by local standards, but worth it.

Drink

Sleep

• El Bijao hotel is a fair way from the bus drop-off point, but has plenty of space to relax. Hot water from the shower is a matter of luck. There is a restaurant.

Get out

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