San Jorge Eco-lodge Tandayapa

When we arived at the lodge, it was raining pretty hard. We had to run to our rooms. Luckily, Angie did bring umbrellas, so our stuff didn't get too wet. After we got into the rooms, the rain died down and  Angie, Mom, and Zoe went up to take pictures of the birds. There were alot of birds. There were humming birds, toucans, tocanets, finches and more. They were also very colorful. Some were red, others blue, some green, and some even gave off a color when the sunlight reflected of their feathers.They were also really noisy. You could hear all sorts of birds from the lodge. There were also alot of mosquetos. I literally hid under my blanket so that they'd stop biting me. Over all, I think it was a cool to see all the different varieties of birds that lived in the forests of Ecuador. -MH

Okay so we woke up early and piled into the car and started driving.  Our first stop was at Mitad del Mundo which is THE EQUATOR!!!! So I spent a lot of time jumping from the southern to nothern hemisphere. After around an hour of walking around we clambered back into the car and drove to a giant crater which is one of the few towns inside of an crator. Then we drove up the moutains to a  restaurant and ate our lunch. After finishing lunch, we got back into to the car and drove into to cloud forest. The lodge we were staying was in the cloud forest. I fell asleap on the drive so I can't tell you much, just that it was a single lane on each side and the people who live there liked to pass on blind turns and almost get everyone killed. I remember a fair amount of swearing. I was josteled awake by us hitting potholes repetadly and in quick succession and that it was pouring rain. We drove up the little mud road until it started gettnig super sketchy. Angie then stopped the car and proclaimed she didn't think we could go any further and went to go check.  She returned with two people and we hiked a short distance to the lodge. after we had gotten settled Angie, Mom and I went up to the hummingbird feeders to try to take pictures. Thats how we spent our first day.  The next day we decided to do a hike up the mountain to the top of the ridge. The map sucked and we had no idea how long the hike would be but we set off anyways. It was hard (must I remind you altitude so to say it SUCKED). We took pictures from the top and then headed back down wich was pretty satisfing. we spent the rest of that day taking even more pictures. I felt like an old granny because I was happy just sitting and watching the humming birds while Angie and my mom desperately tried to get the best picture. The next day we set off for the next lodge. 

~ Zoe,

Out!

Mitad del Mundo 

Zoe's angry bird

Zoe's cold adorable angry bird 

Zoe named humming bird fuzzy feet

Zoe's fuzzy feet

Picture captions courtesy of Zoe! (^.~)