Finca La Nueva Esperanza
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Living in a chocolate heaven...
... to have a walk around the finca and learn all about using the plants and trees as traditional medicines. There honestly was so much to see and take in that I can only remember the following: Canela ( cinammon) - used as a tea to treat a sore throat. Cane agria (forgot the translation!) - used as a tea and good if you're having trouble with 'no 2s'. Also delicious to eat!! Sangre de drago (blood of the dragon) - cutting the tree produced a dark red 'blood' which ...
Finca jardin del chocolate, Puerto Quito
... of Quito behind. Really lush forest with towering palm trees and large valleys which were constantly being revealed as the bus twisted and turned along the road. I was also 'lucky' enough to see first hand exactly how people drive in Ecuador. Despite the twisting roads to allow for the descent from the altitude of Quito, the bus driver continued at full speed and overtook whenever suited, even if the corner was blind or there was clearly traffic approaching from the ...
Tandayapa
... learning the 15 or so common hummingbird species around the lodge in addition to about 600 others in the region.
But the hummingbirds came easier than I thought - obviously made easier by the fact that they are anything but difficult to find.
I could identify the 8 very common ones to the feeders by my second day. The rest proved a bit harder.
I continuously mixed up Quetzals and Trogons and even mistook a barbet for a tanager (it was ...
Hitze und Gastfreundlichkeit...
... Stunde verzoegert. Doch nichts desto trotz kommen wir ohne weitere Probleme in Puerto Quito an- fuer meine Beine ist es eine Wohltat, schliesslich sass die ganze Busfahrt lang Melissa auf meinem Schoss...
Als wir aussteigen, weht uns ein feucht-heisser Wind entgegen. Ja, Puerto Quito liegt vielleicht auf 800m ü. Meer, was auf der Äquatorlinie bereits Hitze bedeuten kann! ;-) Da es aber vorzeitlich geregnet hat, der Himmel ist bewoelkt, kann ich mich gut an ...
The birdwatchers are coming
The last two days we spent in the cloudforest. To escape from the big city life in Quito we headed to Mindo, a little town with unpaved streets in the middle of the cloudforest. After moving into our idyllic forest-cabana we did a waterfall-hiking trip with 5 other guys we met there. Hiking from waterfall to waterfall was really awesome till the wet-season reminded us of being on season ...
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