Mindo: A Hike Through The Cloud Forest On A Sunny Morning
It is called the bird trail, but we only saw a squirrel and a nutria
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Mindo: I Could Sit There Forever Watching The Hummingbirds
In the center of the village you’ll find a house with an abundant garden. The owner put some bananas on branches and sugared water into small buckets. And you won’t believe who came to dinner …
Mindo: A Small, Enchanted Town In The Ecuadorian Cloudforest
Time to say good bye to our friends in Quito and to change place. Fernando brought us to the Bus Station for the regional busses and we caught a bus to Mindo for really no money (something like 3 Dollar). The two hour bus drive brought us “downhill” to Mindo, a small town in the […]
Cuicocha: A Twohundred Meters Deep Vulcanic Lake
In Otavalo Valley lies Laguna de Cuicocha, which means The lake of guniea pigs in Kichwa language. It is 3 km wide, positioned in the crater of an ancient volcano and contains three small islands, two of them being lava domes and one of them shaped like a guniea pig. The caldera was created by an eruption […]
La Mirage Restaurant In Cotacachi: The Escalation Of Eclecticism
Is it roman style? Spanish colonial style? Is it tropical? Or Inca? Is there any sarcasm in it? Or am I in Dynasty* and Joan Collins aka Alexis Carrington-Colby will walk around the corner every minute? One thing is sure: Somebody has fulfilled his dream of a disturbing, overstuffed king Ludwig of Bavaria chateau in creating […]
The Andes: Cayembe In the Sunset
Otavalo: A Weirdly Designed Market Place
Otavalo is a city north of Quito which is inhabited by a lot more indigenous people (here Kichwas) than the average ecuadorian city. Which leads to several effects: For example their identitiy is shown proudly in wearing traditional costumes by nearly everyone. And in the center of Parque Simon Bolivar, the main place, a statue of […]
Quito And The Andes: Worshipping Sun And Moon At Pucara Rumicucho
Pucara Rumicucho – only some kilometers away from Mitad del Mundo – was built by the Incas in the 15th century. The five large stone terraces suggests, that Pucara Rumicucho was once a gathering place for worship of sun and moon. The oval rooms are believed to be built as a representation of equinoxes and […]
Quito And The Andes: The Misty Caldera Of Pululahua
Pululahua means “smoking water” and nature was indeed smoking when we came there. We where very glad to see the ground from above. This crater is the only inhabited crater of Ecuador. There are 120 people living and cultivating coffee and potatoes in this strange place. The mountain was once an estimated 6,000m high until […]
Quito And The Andes: Mitad Del Mundo
This really strange place has to be visited! First of all: It should be, but it is not exactly on the equator. The European guys in 1736 didn’t have the right tools to measure it exactly and they missed it for 240 meters. But now there is already this big monument and who really cares? […]
