This selection of lodges in the Mindo Cloud Forest allows you to choose your favorite Mindo Lodge and includes a Mindo Tour for 3, 4, or 6 days. Moreover, discover Ecuador’s Mindo Cloud Forest with any of these all-inclusive trips featuring accommodations in carefully selected lodges. Subsequently, get lost in the greenest and most biodiverse site in the world by choosing the lodge suitable to your budget.
Additionally, the Mindo Lodge go on a hiking tour to observe the wide variety of bird species (excellent for bird photography), not to mention the colorful orchids found nowhere else on the planet. Alternatively, take a walk to the butterfly farms. Ferns, lush green vegetation, and lovely trails await you for discovering the unique beauties of the Cloudforest.
Most tours include easy to moderate hikes, and you may customize the activities. Therefore, take a look below.
Mindo is a mountainous watershed situated in the western slopes of the Pichincha – Ecuador. Where two of the most biologically diverse ecoregions in the world meet: the lowlands and the Tropical Andes. In this transitional area — which covers an area of 268 square kilometers (103 sq mi) and ranges from 960–3,440 metres (3,150–11,290 ft) above sea level — three rivers (Mindo, Saloya and Cinto) and hundreds of streams irrigate the landscape, which consists of a patchwork of cloud forests, secondary forests, agricultural land, and human settlements.
Politically, Mindo Ecuador Cloud Forest is a collection of rural parishes (Gualea, Nanegal, Nanegalito, Pacto) that make up the Noroccidental Administrative Zone of Quito Canton, within Pichincha Province in the northern sierra region of Ecuador.
Mindo Ecuador Cloud Forest Valley is among the most heavily visited locations in Ecuador. You can enjoy activities such as:
Besides its well-developed tourism infrastructure, it offers several private reserves and lodges known for their montane forests, waterfalls and unique cloud forest biodiversity. Much of the land is privately protected, and an additional 86 square kilometers (33 sq mi) falls within the Mindo-Nambillo Ecological Reserve (Bosque Protector Mindo Nambillo).