Mindo Cloud Forest: Guided Tour with Specialized Nature Activities for an Unforgettable Experience

We provide a directed excursion with experts in flora and fauna, plus activities that will etch your journey in your memory forever.

Duration: 10 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Mindo Nambillo Cloud Forest Reserve - Bird watching, options such as waterfall walks, visit to the butterfly house, orchid garden, etc.
What's Included
  • Private transportation included
What's Not Included
  • Goods and Services Tax (GST)
Location
JW Marriott Quito
Avenida Francisco de Orellana
At the hotel or place of lodging
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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2chipper
Feb 6, 2025
Birds butterflies and chocolate! - We saw many Tanagers, Toucans, and parrot! Roberto provided an excellent tour! Lovely trek to a waterfall, along with butterflies!
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Cruiseexpert691
Nov 27, 2024
Great team in Roberto and Marco - Roberto and Marco were fantastic! We really had a great day with them visiting the centre of the world, feeding the hummingbirds, riding the cable car and seeing the waterfalls then to a chocolate factory. Roberto made the tour really fun and all about what we wanted to do which was fantastic I 100% recommend him.
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Jorge
Sep 15, 2024
Wonderful one-day experience - Great day experience from Quito to San Tadeo to do bird watching. List of 32 species indented thanks to the help of our Guide! Highly recommended
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383malinas
Nov 28, 2023
Josue is the best - Josue was amazing! The best tour guide ever and knew so much about everything. A must see experience. We ended up using him for three separate tours.
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244pennyb
Jun 6, 2023
Mindo Cloud Forest - Feeding the humming birds was absolutely amazing. It was a great day out. Our guide Juan was excellent.
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Pauljm115
May 27, 2023
Two Great Experiences in the Mindo Cloud Forest - Roberto and Great Horned Owl adventures were outstanding! First Roberto worked with us to set up two custom trips to the Mindo Cloud Forest for our group of eight. Two of us wanted to birdwatch while the other six wanted to see and do multiple Mindo Cloud Forest activities. Both groups had a wonderful day in the cloud forest. We communicated with Roberto by email before we arrived in Ecuador. He was also thorough in his response and always returned our inquiries within hours. It was so easy to work with Roberto. Roberto conducted the birdwatching tour which visited several birding spots. I gave him a target bird list and he found every bird type on my list (Andean cock of the rock, beautiful tanagers, toucans, hummingbirds, etc). He also found the unexpected common potoo mother and baby. The mother and baby were hard to distinguish from the tree branch (see the attached photo). Roberto has a great passion for birdwatching and is an expert birder. Roberto also organized the second tour with Juan who was an excellent guide for the other group. The group did ziplining, Ecuadorian chocolate demonstration, butterfly sanctuary, beautiful birding spot, etc. If in Quito contact Roberto for your tours. I am confident you will not be disappointed. Thank you, Roberto and Juan, for such a beautiful day in the Mindo Cloud Forest!
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88mege
May 3, 2023
Fun, customizable tour! - We had a great time on this trip! Roberto was fantastic, and knew all the great places to go to make our trip special. We saw such incredible bird species, had an amazing waterfall hike, and stopped at a wonderful spot for lunch and a coffee tour. Thanks for the trip, Roberto!
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U7617smalisonh
Apr 14, 2023
Roberto was great! - Fantastic personalized tour with Roberto! He took the four of us to the Mindo Cloud Forest as well as a few other stops along the way. He knew the right sites to go to where we had the places to ourselves. We took some wonderful photos and learned so much from him. Highly recommend Roberto and Great Horned Owl Tours. We also did a shorter "food tour" with him the evening we got in to Quito. He helped us navigate the street food vendors and was very enthusiastic about his city and what it has to offer...always enhances any tour.
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Sightsee789557
Mar 24, 2023
Mondo Cloud Forest, Ecuador - What a great personalized (four of us) tour following our Galápagos cruise! Robert gave us a few options of what to see and then tailored the excursion to include what we wanted. Christian was a great driver—easily navigated the chaotic city traffic and country roads. Both of them clearly knew a lot about the area and had a passion for what they do. I would highly recommend this excursion to anyone with a free day in Ecuador. We saw a beautiful waterfall, green toucans and tanagers, many hummingbirds, and butterflies. We had a delicious lunch of grilled octopus, pork, chicken, ribs, and sausage.
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Eat546
May 15, 2023
Disappointing trip to the Mindo Cloud Forest - Perhaps our guide could focus on his clients rather than his phone and conversation with the driver. We thought we had arranged to have a one hour trek into the cloud forest but perhaps our guide Roberto did not understand this as he was adamant that we chose instead a 20min round trip to see a waterfall. We did not. We were very disappointed. A visit to the Mariposas de Mindo butterfly garden was an absolute highlight. Beautiful environment full of butterflies and great food too. Other than transport Roberto was not involved in this visit. The two stops on the way to the butterflies were almost insignificant. Roberto was busy either taking selfies presumably to promote his tour company, or busy on his cell phone. Regrettably we can not recommend this tour company.
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From $85
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).