点评:A wonderful place to see muti-colored tropical butterflies inside a landscaped garden. Modest price for a very nice experience. Once you are inside the garden, you will pass pretty Amaryllis and Torch Gingers in full bloom. Next, is a room with large wooden cabinets holding all sizes of caterpillars & butterfly chrysalises. It was amazing how large The Blue Morpho catepillars are. They make the huge blue butterflies you will see once you get inside the garden. Behind the curtains at the entrance to the butterfly room with tropical plants and flowers. Flitting about and landing on the red and white Penta flowers, milkweed and blue bell shaped plants are many different colors of butterflies with long oval shaped wings. I spent several hour photographing the many shapes and sizes as they flitted from branch to branch over 2 separate visits. It became quite hot the second time I went which was later in the day. I would recommend visiting in the morning because I saw more activity in the AM. The property has other surprises around the corners too. After the butterflies, there is a section with several hummingbird feeders. I saw 3 kinds of hummers and several Bananaquits sipping sugar water. Behind them was a narrow feeding platform with bananas set out for other tropical birds. There was a large, gray tanager shaped bird I couldn't identify. A sly white cat was perched in the bushes behind the birds. He didn't seem to bother the birds as they ignored him. There is also a little pond in another section of the property that has two ducks with beautiful blue grey plumage. I can still picture in my mind all the different sections of the property. It must be a lot of work to keep this place in top shape and I really admire the owner for working hard to keep it in tip top shape. I did not visit the other Butterfly Garden in Mindo as it was 3 kilometers away from downtown and was more expensive.
翻译:这里是观赏五彩斑斓的热带蝴蝶的绝佳去处,置身于精心设计的花园之中。价格适中,体验非常棒。进入花园后,首先映入眼帘的是盛开的朱顶红和火炬姜。接下来是一个房间,里面摆放着大型木柜,里面装着各种大小的毛毛虫和蝴蝶蛹。蓝闪蝶的幼虫体型之大令人惊叹,它们正是花园里那些巨大蓝色蝴蝶的始祖。蝴蝶房入口处的帘子后面,热带植物和花卉环绕四周。各种颜色的蝴蝶翩翩起舞,落在红白相间的五星花、马利筋和蓝铃花上,它们有着长长的椭圆形翅膀。我分两次参观,花了几个小时拍摄这些形态各异、大小不一的蝴蝶在枝头间飞舞的身影。第二次去的时候已经是傍晚了,天气变得相当炎热。我建议早上来,因为我发现早上蝴蝶活动更加频繁。此外,这里还有其他意想不到的惊喜。蝴蝶园之后,有一处摆放着几个蜂鸟喂食器的区域。我看到了三种蜂鸟和几只香蕉鸟在吸食糖水。它们身后是一个狭窄的喂食平台,上面放着香蕉,供其他热带鸟类享用。我看到一只体型较大的灰色唐纳雀,但我认不出它是什么品种。一只狡猾的白猫栖息在鸟儿们身后的灌木丛中。鸟儿们似乎对它视而不见,它也没有打扰它们。园子另一侧还有一个小池塘,里面有两只羽毛呈美丽蓝灰色的鸭子。我至今仍能清晰地回忆起园子的各个区域。要保持这个地方的完美状态,想必需要付出很多努力,我非常钦佩园主为之付出的辛勤劳动。我没有去明多(Mindo)的另一个蝴蝶园,因为它距离市中心有3公里,而且门票更贵。