this is why we came to mindo can you hear all the birds
this place is only two hours from quito but has completely different
landscape and completely different animals because it's in the cloud forest of ecuador
and for that reason it is world renowned for its birds and its butterflies
it is like 5 45 in the morning we're getting ready to go on a little bird tour yeah so the
best time to see the birds here is early in the morning so we're getting picked up by our guide
and we're gonna go see what we can see we're so excited hopefully not falling asleep on the way
all right there he comes
he picked us up at six and we drove like five minutes from our hostel and we're already
seeing tons of different birds and he's brought his monocular
and uh hopefully we can catch a little bit it's a little bit dark right now so
it might be hard to try and catch some videos but i'm gonna try back
honestly our guide is so impressive i don't even know how he's seeing half these birds
they're literally i can't find them in the tree we brought our big lens out and
we can't even use it a because the birds move so fast but i literally can't even
locate them because the branches are so dense and i have no idea where these birds even are
but we have this like giant telephoto lens that he's letting us use and the birds look so sick
in there it's awesome so we've just been taking videos with our phone using that lens instead
so we're realizing a lot of birding is just like listening we're just hanging
out here with danny and we'll be like talking all of a sudden he'll be like
he'll like point to a direction it's awesome
he just like knows what every bird sounds like and where to find them and like sarah said like
we don't even know where these birds are we can't see them at all but then danny's like
it's awesome
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oh that was amazing that was way too cool we saw so many cool birds
yeah that was just so awesome we loved it honestly like like if you're gonna come to
mindo like you have to go bird watching at least once like with a guide yeah we've been going
every morning on different walks there's tons of trails around mindo too we went to casa amarillo
ammarilla a few days ago and it was also so awesome really different we were like deep
in the jungle on these trails it was really cool too yeah yeah that was like i kind of wish i had
that telescope thing that he had yeah we brought our camera with that one like we saw some really
cool things we saw birds we saw actually that was the first time we saw like ecuadorian capuchins
which are apparently very endangered yeah they're endangered monkeys here in ecuador and apparently
they're pretty rare to see and they they were like throwing sticks at us and stuff it was so
cool they were really close yeah totally but it was so dense that like unless you had one of those
either a guide or one of those telescope things and knew where to find the birds you didn't see a
whole lot through the bushes whereas if you come with a tour guide then you could you could have
that option right and they know where the birds are hanging out what kind of birds are there and
so yeah it was really cool highly recommend at least taking one tour and yeah it was awesome but
another thing that mindo is known for is their chocolate production you can do tours here to
learn about it but we're just gonna go and try to do some chocolate tasting so that's right let's go
what should we start with maybe a chocolate i mean a coffee
yeah i think we should start with the chocolate chocolate
i can't open it i'm going for the biggest guy
this is very good chocolate quit hogging it give me some
what one is this? Aji here
spicy no i thought it would be it's actually more minty
oh yeah it's kind of minty it tastes like one of those like after eights
yeah that's right okay this one is called Herba Luisa Hierba Luisa i'm sorry
this guy which we've had a lot of like we've had a lot of tea of like hierba luisa
but not chocolate so
well i'm not expecting that it tastes it tastes like exactly like fruit loops
all right what a random taste we found the flavor of fruit loops
well we got coffee and vanilla they were honestly the best ones there it's so nice
you're able to try actually all of them yeah they were all really delicious but
we just got these two so excited to go on our porch and eat them that's right
well we showed you the birds but mindo's also known for their butterflies that's
right so right now we're actually at the mariposario so this is like
apparently there's two mariposarios one is like up the river and then the other one i think is
in the middle of town yeah that's right yeah yeah anyway so there's two different options
but this one's supposed to have thousands of different butterflies we're going to go check
them out and i'm wearing my floral shirt so they all come and just land on me we'll make it happen
so it costs 7.50 each to get in and there's a beautiful gift shop you can't wear repellent
so if you come here make sure not to put inside repellent on because if you want to
hold the butterflies you can't have any if you want to feed them then they won't come to you
because you're repelling them well that too yeah um and then now we just start our tour
then they separate and the female will work in the forest for a very specific amount of time for
take them two and a half to four and a half months to reach their adult size
i'll be outside for you okay thank you so much welcome muchas gracias
they're everywhere this is crazy wow wow they're literally everywhere i
don't even know if it captures it on this thing this is insane okay this
is way better than i thought it was gonna be and we literally have been in for one second and
literally like we were leaving so we're leaving mindo today we like weren't even sure if we were
gonna come this morning but now i convinced eric this is insane look behind you right now sarah
look how many butterflies and these things are huge
oh my goodness look how many of them there are you just told us in our tour that these ones last
live the longest these ones can live up to one month whereas a lot of the other ones are just two
two and a half weeks so that's crazy too wow this is amazing there's one on me
i don't know what to do don't touch it wow hey buddy
this is so cool i don't want to step anywhere i'm like frozen wow
okay i cannot get over this place there's literally just butterflies flying
everywhere everywhere you walk you have to be careful
they're just on everything they're around everywhere it's just so amazing i just love this
i got one what's his name ted oh that's looking pretty cute ted's a nice guy he just
kind of just chills he doesn't even want the banana he's just there for you
oh yeah he likes it wow true friendship right there he's my best friend
nobody wants nobody wants my banana finger
you go for a big guy you get one of the big guys come on hey buddy
come on buddies banana finger
there's a butterfly poking my eye right now
this feels a lot weirder than you think it would
oh no
do i just walk around like this now is this just my life i just live with a butterfly on my face
i think this is just how i live now and yes it was poking my eye before oh my word
barely escaped with my life there
come to me
come on ted ted is it you did oh there you go you got a big old guy he's coming for your face again
these ones are uglier yeah they're really mothy wow that is very close up this was the one that
was on my face hey i think it has some eggs on the bottom of it maybe it's pooping on you i hope not
well this is definitely worth the 7.50 to get in oh yeah it's so cool this is a must do if you
come to me though it's just so cool you could hang out here all day and just watch all the different
butterflies flittering around yeah i actually am considering just staying here all day maybe
if it wasn't so freaking hot in here yeah that's the funny thing about me though is it's only two
hours from quito but it is so warm here it's way warmer it's so warm and it it's nice but then now
we're in a greenhouse and it's also hot so like we're baking but totally not complaining because
we've been cold in the mountains for like weeks now so yeah this is such a nice little thing to
do like yeah so relaxing and just hanging with the butterflies yeah i'd like like a little iced
coffee right now and it would be perfect to just sit here perfect hang out all day
immediately better oh immediately better we're so hot in there oh so hot in there
well thanks for watching again we've had such a great week in mindo it's been so wonderful
to be here our only goal for the week was just to relax and enjoy the nature and we feel like
that was successful we we saw so many cool things and it was just such a nice
needed break it was awesome it was perfect so definitely if you come to mindo you have
to do some bird watching and definitely go to the mariposario this wasn't like a fully comprehensive
list of mindo that's not what this video was about it was about us just hanging out and chilling and
that's exactly what we did yeah there's definitely a lot of other things to do and mean though but we
feel like we've been going pretty hard the last few weeks so we needed a break from our vacation
pretty much which is funny to say but yeah definitely so yeah thanks for watching
uh but you're also probably wondering what this big announcement is what could it be and
we are sad to say that we are all so excited about also excited to say
that we are moving on from ecuador and we are going to drumroll peru
so this was this is obviously a huge jump for us um we've been wanting to go to peru for a
really long time it was one of the first countries that we wanted to go to in south america um very
happy that we came to ecuador first and really enjoyed it we definitely could have seen more but
we're going to freaking peru i'm so excited and yeah like eric said we originally were planning
on staying in ecuador while we were prepared to be here even up to a year it's true if that was what
happened but now that other countries are opening up and our visas here are expiring or we'd have
to apply for more of an extended um visa we just decided that we feel ready to go on and we feel
like there's always more things to see in ecuador i can't even express it enough every place we go
people tell us about other places that are more awesome and other places to go and we
wish we could spend more time even and just keep touring around lots of things to explore
in ecuador we will be back yeah but we also have some very exciting things coming up for you guys
in ecuador still yes we are still saving the best for last because we are going to
the amazon and the galapagos before we leave ecuador
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what we have in store and yeah hopefully you follow along our journey to peru as well that's
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what just happened we're trying to take a thumbnail and like literally this
butterfly comes up and lays an egg on me it laid an egg it's either that or
pooped i don't know but it seemed like a lot of work to just poop on my finger