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Hello, we are Matthieu and Daria. We are running a small eco glamping, a garden with restaurant and side activities (tours for our guests) in Skadar Lake National Park, Montenegro. We have 4 glamping tents with a maximum of 15 guests. We also organize dinner, wine tasting and tours for our guests, like canoeing, hiking, sightseeing, etc.
Our location is on a hillside with fantastic views over the surrounding mountains. A lot of hiking trails start nearby. The lake, river, waterfalls and stunning viewpoints are nearby waiting to be discovered. If you like working in beautiful surroundings, take out one of our canoes on the lake to admire a sunset, go for a long hike and enjoying great outdoors . . . Then you will definitely feel at home here.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We are European and happy to learn about people and their culture, share our point of view about Montenegro and Balkans and learn something new from you.
You will see first hand a small glamping business getting shape.
Matthieu has a good knowledge about carpentry and all kind of DIY. Additionally he is a nature lover with big knowledge about fauna and flora of the area (specifically birdwatcher). He can share some cool bushcraft skills and teach you how to canoe. He has as well experience as a workawayer while travelling for long on the bike.
Daria likes all kind of handcrafts, herbs, making natural soap and cosmetics, pottery, painting, decorating and experimenting in the kitchen. Always eager to learn new recipes. The soul of Hoopoe Glamping.
You will stay in a small village where locals produce wine, rakija, honey, cheese, smoked ham and marinate fish. Where people are still close to traditional way of growing vegetables, fruits, olives. Fascinating to see how the locals put their passion into it.
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Host offers payment in line with the minimum wage
This host offers accommodation and payment.
Help
For months:
APRIL - OCTOBER
we are looking only for two people - to help us to provide food experience: "COOK & WAITER/-RESS" (we invite only couples - reason explained in "accommodation details" below).
The creative cook, experienced (fusion kitchen, occasionally vegan meals using local products and mainly based on seasonal, own produced organic vegetables and herbs). Independent. The Chef will be responsible to prepare breakfasts and dinners. The waiter must be communicative, attentive - overall hospitable. Minimum 2 months stay.
Fluently/ very good in English.
During the season months, we are the full time hosts. We mainly are focused on hosting our guests: welcoming and making the stay of our guests comfortable and memorable. It incluedes: preparing/serving food, running a bar, organising an excursions). We are looking for: energy, positive and can-do attitude, flexibility, punctuality and good English together with communication skills and enthusiasm. Best if having hosting experience before.
NOVEMBER - APRIL - OFF SEASON, we mainly are looking for:
* handy people - carpenters, plumbers, electricians or whatever skill that you have to build some cool structures and helping us maintaining the land. Strong people who don't mind dirty hands ;)
* artists, designers, film makers, photographers, content creators or whatever skills you have to help us with "background jobs" (improving, making nice paints, signs, movies, content for website and sm)
* early spring we have lot of work with general maintenance, preparing garden for planting vegetables (or trees), trimming, cutting, cultivating + other projects (simple fixing or creative constructing, landscaping).
* house sitters
Other tasks: there are a lot of overgrown old walking trails around. It's our dream to bring them back to life. Sometimes we head out and clear a stretch of trail.
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Sometimes the work can be intensive due to deadline or because of hot season. Please let us know in advance IF YOU HAVE ANY JOB, SCHOOL, OBLIGATIONS. You will have plenty of free time to enjoy surroundings and do your things but it is necessary to plan hours of work.
We are always happy to help you to give you our tips and help you discover Montenegro!
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PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:
We offer and expect honesty, flexibility and friendliness.
We like to share together coffee, meals, nice chat or day off, if possible.
We provide a glamping accommodation together with meals and activities. We host our friends and Workawayers.
It is very important to know and understand, that cleaning, keeping given house, bathroom and kitchen tidy and well organised is very important for us.
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We provide you an accommodation at the glamping site (just next to beautiful pool and relax zone), private bathroom (shower/ and eco-toilet) and a restaurant's kitchen to cook.
We provide a minimum wage in an hourly rate for every hour helped, for every Workawayer.
Extra: we can invite you in your offs to join some excursion in the region or offer you a lake tour on the lake. We offer you our equipment, maps, knowledge to plan your own free time. We like to share experiences, chat, food and drinks.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
Polish: Fluent
Serbo-Croatian: Fluent
Accommodation
You will be accommodated in newly built wooden, tiny house (a-frame - look in our gallery), located in the secluded place - it is your private accommodation located close to the pool. There is a private bathroom with eco-toilet next to it - private. You will use a restaurant's kitchen (very well equipped), internet, power, hot water etc. is guaranteed.
We do prefer couples or close friends as they must share one wooden cabin :)
We can do exceptions after season to host a single traveller or to offer our caravan for a single as addition.
What else ...
We are only 2 km walking from Virpazar. From there the whole of Montenegro is at your feet (not really), but at least you can get easily to capital - Podgorica or Bar by train, bus or hitchhike. You can enjoy hilly roads by bike or hike, swimming in nearest river, lake and waterfalls. Nearest beach at the sea is up to 15km, nearest beach at the lake is 7km far.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
Smaller vans can fit in our parking but we anyway provide an accommodation :)
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
Feedback (20)
The tasks given were always approached with eagerness and commitment. Anja and Lars were great partners: strong and happy to work with their hands. They don't like to be "physically bored", so even more challenging jobs they find as good… read more
Daria & Matthieu are heartwarming persons. They are respectful, professional, warm, funny, open minded, flexible and always give us our space to grow and add our personality and skills in the tasks that… read more
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The tasks given were always approached with eagerness and commitment. Anja and Lars were great partners: strong and happy to work with their hands. They don't like to be "physically bored", so even more challenging jobs they find as good… read more
Daria & Matthieu are heartwarming persons. They are respectful, professional, warm, funny, open minded, flexible and always give us our space to grow and add our personality and skills in the tasks that… read more
Their glamping is located in one of the most beautiful parts of Montenegro, with Skadar lake and the hills and mountains on the doorstep for exploring, hiking, and adventuring.
Our tasks were preparing and serving breakfast and coffee/tea… read more
les deseo mucha prosperidad
see you later, alligator 🤙
The work was interesting and not monoton at all. We felt like they really trusted us from the first moment. We could take their car for go swimming in this beautiful river near the Glamping.
Also the Gamping by itselfes was really a nice place to be and we enjoyed the talks in… read more
We learned a lot from this workaway experience. For example how to be more creative by building and constructing. (Still very happy about the stairs at the entrance.)
We will… read more
Virpazar in the… read more
During our stay we helped with different things like breakfast in the morning, preparing, serving,… read more
He has many art skills and helped improving our glamping and neighbourhood with that.
I’ve been received really well,
There is a lot of work to do, but anyway my hosts were conforting and arranging,
I felt like a member of the family, thanks to there warm and counciling regards,
There’s a bunch of beautiful hikes to do in the region, the canoë tour was awesome, and I learn some… read more
Amélie arrived later and only stayed for a few days. She really wanted to get involved and was a hard worker.
Thanks guys!
Friendly and respectful couple, each with their own skill set. Manuel was the master of fixing the unfixable, and surprised me more then ones when he brought back my bush strimmer to live. He had a… read more
Hard workers who get the job done. They helped building on multiple projects, installed water pipes all around our glamping and did a lot of gardening work. A little wardrobe they designed and put together was a masterpiece and we proudly… read more
The spot of the glamping is just amazing, you… read more
