Our Specialty
Riding a bicycle brings many personal and collective benefits, as it promotes exercising, good health, sharing time with family, and taking care of environment. ENDEMICTOURS encourages the use of bicycles, with the goal of bringing physical wellbeing and avoiding pollution. If you’re feeling like changing your car for a bicycle, here are some good reasons that support that decision:
- It’s a healthy physical exercise
- Prevents heart diseases
- Reduces de risk of being overweighed or obese
- Benefits the family communal living
- It’s one of the cheapest and less contaminating means of transportation
- Bikes occupy less space than cars
- Improves your perspective of the places you visit
ENDEMICTOURS aims to create a culture that promotes biking and physical exercise among the children, young people and adults that visit Mindo, contributing to the use of ecological means of transportation, and also fighting against climate change and recovering the public space. Furthermore, ENDEMICTOURS provides the service of bike rental, encouraging its use while you enjoy the nature of Mindo and its surroundings. Have you already changed your car for a bike? If you haven’t done it… we invite you to start practicing!
See here our routes and difficulty levels!
Route Nº1 - Wet Shoes
Difficulty Level
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Total km
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Length
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Price
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| Medium |
14 Km |
2 – 4 hours |
$15 x person |
| Description |
We bike down the main avenue in Mindo (Quito Ave.), passing by the main park, the church and the bridge over the Canchupi River. We start biking up until we reach the Técnico Ecuador School and then turn left, to start going down again. We can appreciate the change of landscape that this route offers, until we get to the Hotel Mindo Bonito. Afterwards, we continue to bike down the road and go through some streams, until we get to a small pool where we can take a bath or just enjoy the landscape.
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| Includes |
- Bicycle
- Implements: helmet, gloves, locker
- Map
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Note:
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| Reference Points |
- 01. Starting point
- 02. Main park
- 03. Church of Mindo
- 04. Bridge over the Canchupi River
- 05. Entrance to the Técnico Ecuador School
- 06. Sport fishing (Hotel Mindo Bonito)
- 07. Pool
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Route Nº2 - Garceta Sol / Cinto River Bridge / Saloya
Route
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Difficulty Level
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Total km
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Length
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Price
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- 1. Garceta Sol
- 2. Cinto River Bridge
- 3. Saloya
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- 1. Low/medium
- 2. Medium/high
- 3. High
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- 1 - 2 hours
- 2 - 4 hours
- 4 - 6 hours
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- $ 5 x person
- $10 xperson
- $15 x person
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| Description |
We bike down four blocks and then turn left in the first referential point (Church of Mindo). We cross the boulevard of birds and sports field, to continue our way down to the Mindo River bridge. Afterwards, we bike up a gravel road and continue until we get to the second bridge, at the low part of the Nambillo River.
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| Includes |
- Bicycle
- Implements: helmet, gloves, locker
- Map
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Note: this route is divided in three stages. |
| Reference Point |
Garceta Sol
- 01. Church of Mindo
- 02. Boulevard of birds
- 03. Bridge over the Mindo Rivers
- 04. Sport fishing / Horseback riding / Canyoning (Hotel Garceta Sol)
- 05. Nambillo River bridge
Cinto River Bridge
- 06. Acoustic wall
- 07. Natural cascade
- 08. Natural formation “The Turtle”
- 09. Cinto hill
- 10. Bridge over the Cinto River
Saloya
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Route Nº3 - Bank of the Mindo River
Difficulty Level
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Total km
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Length
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Price
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| Low/medium |
9 Km |
1 – 2 hours |
$5 x person |
| Description |
We start by biking for one block an turn to right, to go down a gravel road (PAY ATTENTION TO THE PRONOUNCED DESCEND). We cross a small bridge and then reach a Y in the road, where we turn left to bike along the banks of the Mindo Rivers towards the Butterfly Garden. Afterwards, we bike up a small hill and two streams await for us at the end of the route.
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| Includes |
- Bicycle
- Implements: helmet, gloves, locker
- Map
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Nota: this route is suitable for all ages and training levels. |
| Reference Points |
- 01. Entrance to “La Estancia” cabins
- 02. Bridge over the Saguambi River
- 03. End of tubing
- 04. Bamboo Labyrinth (Hotel La Roulotte)
- 05. Butterfly Garden (Hotel Mariposas de Mindo)
- 06. Beginning of tubing
- 07. Trail “Agua Canto” (Mindo Garden Lodge)
- 08. Environmental Interpretation Center (CEA)
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Route Nº4 - Río Bravo Reserve
Difficulty Level
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Total km
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Length
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Price
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| Medium/high |
18 Km |
2 – 5 hours |
$20 x person |
| Description |
We start by biking for one block an turn to right, to go down a gravel road (PAY ATTENTION TO THE PRONOUNCED DESCEND). We cross a small bridge and then reach a Y in the road, where we turn right and cross a big bridge. From there we begin to begin up the hill for about 3 km until we get to the canopy. Afterwards we continue to climb until we pass by the entrance of Las Tangaras Reserve, from where the road turns nicer as we leave behind the hill and star biking in more flat road. This route will take us to the entrance of the Waterfall Sanctuary and the Cable Car, and after passing that we will go by the entrance of the Nambillo spa. From that area, new stretches of small ascents come, until we finally arrive to the Río Bravo Reserve. Here we will hike to a waterfall where we can take a refreshing bath and then we’re ready to go back.
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| Includes |
- Bicycle
- Implements: helmet, gloves, locker
- Map
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Note: the first stretch of this route is up the hill, but it gets easer as we move forward to our destination. |
| Reference Points |
- 01. Starting point
- 02. Pronounced descend
- 03. Bridge over the Sagumabi River
- 04. End of tubing
- 05. Y in the road
- 06. Bridge over the Mindo River
- 07. Viewpoint Nº1
- 08. Canopy
- 09. Las Tangaras Reserve
- 10. Entrance of the Waterfall Sanctuary and Cable Car
- 11. Viewpoint Nº2
- 12. Entrance to the Nambillo Spa
- 13. Entrance to the Protected Forest Mindo - Nambillo
- 14. Río Bravo Reserve
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