La Chonta Cloud Forest Cabin

A rustic four-bedroom cabin for up to eight people, the place to bring a birding group or two families to Mindo. The porch is the house: an open-air kitchen, dining area and lounge in one, facing the garden and the mountains, and the host counts more than eighty bird species passing through on a normal day. Two bathrooms, five beds, and free parking, which is rarer in Mindo than it sounds. The host describes it as rustic and cosy and the reviews, at 4.79 over six years, treat it that way: a forest house first and a hotel second. The village is close enough for dinner.