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We are Gary and Erika a retired married couple living in South America Ecuador. We moved here from the USA about 8 years ago and we are loving it. We would like to invite you to join our family, stay with us, help us get the work done around the house, eat well and have great conversations. We have 5 friendly furry friends to fall in love with, Argus the Doberman, Maxine the Labrador mix, Missy our medium size mix doggy, Buttercup a 7 years old blonde doggy and Mr. Tiny who looks like a miniature fox. All of the 5 dogs are super friendly. Our beautiful place is high up in the Andes Mountains at 2600 meters (8500 feet) with comfortable temperatures. We have a small independent guest cabin that we would like to offer for the person / persons to stay in. It has everything, bed, kitchen appliances, bathroom, with hot water and internet. We are looking for someone who wishes to work about 4 days a week and maybe travel the rest of the week. Our guest cabin can be your home-base while you exploring this beautiful South American country.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Sustainability
Pets
Farming
Languages
Gardening
Cooking & food
Animals
Nature
Mountain
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Gary is originally from Texas, Erika is from Budapest, Hungary, she also lived in Germany for many years. We love people from all over the world. You can exercise your Spanish language knowledge with the locals, or your English with us. We can tell you all about the USA and about Hungary by our evening camp fires if you are interested.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We need one or two people to help us with yard work like cutting grass, chopping firewood, cleaning chicken coup, gardening, digging holes for improving the property with adding a porch in front of the house.
We love honest people with integrity and good work ethics. You can be slim, round, short or tall, young, middle aged or old, come join us. Most of the time you will be working alone or in pair if you come with someone, some of the times we will be working together.
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Hungarian: Fluent
German: Intermediate
Spanish: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
We would love to learn more Spanish so if you are interested in learning English maybe we can help each other.
Accommodation
A small independent guest cabin is available for 2-3 persons. It has a bunk bed, a small kitchen, bathroom with hot water and internet.
We can provide 3 meals per day.
What else ...
We live in an isolated small indigenous community here in the mountains, we are about a 10-15 taxi ride from the highway where local buses commute to nearby and far away cities. A taxi ride from our house costs $3 to the highway. The nearest small town is called Paute in the state of Azuay and the next biggest city is called Cuenca with beautiful old-town-feel streets and architecture.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This year sometimes we have power outage due to lack of rain in Ecuador. People say they didn't have a draught since 60 years. This one will pass too but right now we have two hours of power outage every day nationwide.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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