About Us

Bellavista was set up in the 1990s by Richard and Gloria, a Colombian - British couple who had been living for some years in Ecuador. Gloria, mother of two by her first marriage,  once ran a boutique in Quito city  and was the main contributor to the first Colombian tourism guidebook  to Ecuador. Richard was first a Galapagos naturalist guide in the 1980s, working later after doing a Masters degree in USA, for College Semester Abroad programmes for US undergraduates, both here in Ecuador, and in Madagascar. 

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Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge & Reserve is declared the first private ecological reserve of Ecuador within the National System of Protected Areas (SNAP)