Videos tagged with "northwest"

7 part "Улан-Удэ - Франция" folk festival in France, Plozevet, Bretagne [07:40]
Ulan-Ude - France: in 1997 Buryat ensemble "Selenga" visited France and took part in many folk festivals. Here you can see the fest in Plozévet (a commune in the Finistère department in Bretagne in northwestern France) Улан-Удэ -Франция 1997. Участники международного фольклорного фестиваля в Плозевете, Бретань, Франция. В том числе знаменитая ирландская группа The Wolfe Tones.
Tags: франция, фольклорный, фестиваль, буряты, бурятия, улан-удэ, румыния, ирландцы, австралийцы, эфиопия, южная, америка, france, buryats, buryatia, ulan-ude, plozevet,

Timelapse of Quito, Ecuador #2 [02:58]
This is a 5-hour time lapse of Quito on a day with sunshine, rain, and ending with a foggy red sunset. The Quito international airport (UIO) is on the right edge of the video, and you can see planes landing. It was taken on the east side of the city pointing northwest in the northern half of Quito. This was created using TimeLapse on my iPhone 4. The frames were taken about 2-4 seconds apart and encoded at 30 fps.
Tags: Quito, Ecuador, Time-lapse, Timelapse, iphone, UIO, Airport

A Weekend in Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador [02:53]
This is a small collage of our time spent in Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador from May 27th until May 29th, 2011 on a break from studying abroad at la Universidad San Fransisco de Quito. We began with the views of the town and the greater part of the video is from the hike of the Sanctuario de Cascadas; a twenty minute cab ride from the town's beautiful center. If you are a traveler, message me for trip advice, as my group was able to learn copious amounts of information from our hostel owners. The city is unbelievably beautiful and if you get a chance to visit, don't let it pass. It's a $2.50 two and a half hour bus ride to the northwest of Quito. Enjoy!
Tags: mindo, pichincha, cloudforest, ecuador, cascada, waterfall, hiking, backpacking, camping, weekend, survival, family, outdoor, travel, cheap, friendly, michigan, state, msu, usfq, universidad, san, fransisco, study, abroad, college, seth, nature, rainfores

Yellow-billed Jacamar (Galbula albirostris) in the Yasuni [01:57]
The Yellow-billed Jacamar is a relatively small member of the genus Galbula found north of the Amazon River in northern Amazonia from eastern Ecuador, southern Colombia and northwestern Brazil. It is replaced south of the Amazon by the very similar Blue-cheeked Jacamar (Galbula cyanicollis). The Yellow-billed Jacamar prefers the understory of terra firme forest. It is quite a striking jacamar, having bright iridescent green upperparts, and rich chestnut underparts, including the undersurface of the tail. Sexes differ slightly, with males having a white throat. It gets its name from the entirely yellow lower mandible. The Yellow-billed Jacamar is most similar to Blue-cheeked Jacamar, which has more iridescent "blue" cheeks, an entirely yellow bill, and males lack the white throat. They are not known to overlap, apparently separated by the Amazon River. Yellow-billed does overlap with the Purplish Jacamar (Galbula chalcothorax), which lacks the chestnut, and prefers the mid-story of both varzea and "transitional" forest. It is also sympatric with White-chinned Jacamar (Galbula tombacea), which favors dense vegetation along the edges of slow-moving streams and oxbow lakes, is larger, and has chestnut restricted to the lower belly. Like other jacamars, the Yellow-billed Jacamar forages by sallying out from low branches for flying insects.
Tags: Yellow-billed, Jacamar, Yasuni, Bird, Birding, Birdwatching, National, Park, Biosphere, Reserve, Ecuador, Amazon, Nature, Wild, Wilderness, Outdoors, Huaorani, People, Ethnic, Eco, Ecoturs

Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve & Lodge, Tandayapa - Ecuador [03:05]
Bellavista -- A cloud forest reserve and lodge deep in Ecuador's northwest, less than 2 hours from Quito. Smart Voyager certified, this special place offers peace and true discovery of exuberant nature, with 10 km of trails taking you to waterfalls, through forests of tall trees festooned with mosses, orchids and bromeliads. Birding here is superb -- we are on the Nono-Mindo road, now the new Eco-route. Flurries of hummingbirds come to our feeders, including Gorgeted Sunangel, Collared Inca, Brown Inca, Buff-tailed Coronet, and more.
Tags: Ecuador, bellavista, Tandayapa, quito, cloud, forest, hotel, hosteria, restaurant, Mindo, food, northwest, Pichincha, Nanegalito, Nono, valley, ecolodge, eco, lodge, conservation, sustainable, smart, voyager, certified, hummingbirds, cock-of-the-rock, lek