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Ecuador (Onward...)

Roadside waterfall enroute to Mindu
A couple days of bird watching in Mindu
over the river
and along a scenic mountain trail

with our trusty walking companion
to a trail at the end of the road
with another waterfall
which the owner was glad to show for free
to the researching Happy Gringo tour guides
the waterfall

the plunge
the heavens above
and a few europeans
a nice day
in some spectacular nature



more watching on the long walk back
our first Tucan

back in town we search out the butterfly farm
and instead find our next stay, an abandoned camp
checkout of the Hostel Gypsy
and make the move to camp
Through Pula crater on the return to Quito
and past Quito to the hotsprings of Papallacta

Our happy homestay in Papallacta
South to Cotopaxi

and around the crater


to the base to the volcano base
and climbing up
to the end of the road at base camp
where climbers spend the night before the ascent
Our friendly albeit corrupt park guard stay

with drunkards _Pat_ (he or she_) and his desire
and the two others that drank silly
Latacunga enroute to Lago Quilotoa