Nature is in full-abundance, so you can enjoy activities in Mindo such as rafting, tubing, trekking, hiking, cable-car to waterfalls, bicycling (bicycle rental), butterfly watching, butterfly garden, bird watching, Lago Mindo Frog Concert (frog night tour), coffee tour, chocolate tour, chocolate factory tour, zip-lining, climbing waterfalls, mountain biking, canyoning, horseback riding, birdwatching, and herping (night reptile search).  We have a partner-agent named Bird of Paradise Tours (link here), who works in our facility and can directly book all of these activities for you.

While volunteering with Mindo Volunteer Hostel, you can at the same time explore the natural beauty of Mindo.  We offer eco-volunteerism.

Mindo is a small community nestled in the Mindo Valley. The Mindo Valley is a mountainous watershed in the western slopes of the Andes, where two of the most biologically diverse ecoregions in the world meet: the Chocoan lowlands and the Tropical Andes.  The Mindo, Saloya and Cinto rivers and hundreds of streams irrigate the landscape, which is a patchwork of cloud forests, secondary forests, agricultural land settlements.  The Mindo Nambillo Cloud Forest Reserve, Rio Bravo Reserve and Las Tangaras Reserve are all right here!