Chocolate tour, walkabout and chilling One of the recommended things to do and Mindo was the chocolate tour, so we headed over after breakfast and took the tour which was really informative and quite delicious! We hadn't really explored the town too much so we took a little wander around a few backstreet's and found a gymnasium where they were playing Ecuavalley (Ecuador is the version of volleyball). We watched for a few minutes, I tried to explain it to mom a...

Butterfly's, zip lines, long walks and cable car! Today was a pretty action-packed day! After breakfast we came up with a plan and we were off to one of the coolest butterfly farms I've ever seen in my life. They had a bunch of pods set up where you could actually watch the butterflies hatching and while we were there we got to see three or four hatch. Pretty amazing so see! After the butterfly farm we were off to do some zip lining! There was an option to do t...

Santo Domingo to Mindo milk run... So the man who said he would give us a ride had tons of luggage and a tiny little car, so that was a no go......but it's the thought that counts I suppose! We caught the bus to Esmeraldas, and then caught the bus to Santa Domingo. Those two buses were fine but the bus from Santa Domingo to Mindo, which what I thought should've been maybe an hour and a half took almost 4 hours with constant stops every couple minutes!!! Mom cal...