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Host rating
80 %
Feedback
20
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Description
This is a backpacker hostel well recommended by several handbooks and online review sites. This place offer rooms for tourist, biking tours, trekking tours. At night we have a nice atmosphere at the bar - Restaurant and Happy hours.
Types of help and learning opportunities
General Maintenance
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
Help with Computers/ Internet
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Cabanaconde is a remote village in Colca Canyon and most of the locals are farmers. Life is tranquil and people in town are very friendly. Volunteers will have chance to explore Colca Canyon and enjoy from great views. Our hostel provides work to local people and you can practice your Spanish and learn some Quechua. You will also enjoy of the nature of Colca Canyon and observe Condors at the Viewpoint of Cruz del Condor.
Help
Our hostel in Colca Canyon needs volunteers to help at the hostel by providing trekking information and hosting our guests. Help is about welcoming our guests, helping with the check in and out, showing their rooms and helping them to provide trekking information. Work is easy and relax for about 4 hours. You can enjoy from nice walks in the afternoon or mornings.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Fluent
Dutch: Fluent
Accommodation
Room can be shared, there is plenty of hot water. Meals are included Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
What else ...
Cabanaconde - Colca canyon is just a quite place with great landscape, 20 minuts from town there is the famous lookout to see condors, you can hike in the canyon. The village is just quite and peacefull with a lot of tradition and corn fields on the pre-inca terraces.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
5 hrs
Feedback (14)
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Feedback
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Accuracy of profile:
(4.7)
Cultural exchange:
(4.9)
Communication:
(4.6)
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Wish her the best!
Ayudé al momento del desayuno, durante el dia haciendo el check-in y preparando la sala del restaurant y al momento de la cena en el restaurant y bar. Me gusto mucho ayudar el equipo, fue divertido e interessante !
Me quedé en una habitacion… read more
Best Regards for both of… read more
El equipo, el gerente Manuel (un genio tiene una energía un carisma como se fuera brasileiro, para tudo tiene una sonrisa) Ludwing un maestro sabe administrar su negocio, muy muy inteligente, yo creo que una empresa gira de acuerdo con la manera que gerencia el dueño y el hostal es el perfecto intercambio cultural que… read more
el trabajo fue muy sencillo, ayudar en la cocina o en el bar, tambien preparar el desayuno, pero solo pocos horas cada día. hay mucho tiempo… read more
Ludwig
We felt welcome and looked after. We only stayed for a little over two weeks and managed to get a really good feel for the area could easily have stayed for longer however our trip had to go on. There are many short hikes that can be done between shifts and we felt we could get a… read more
Me quedé en el hostal, en una pieza individual, agua caliente, tres comidas diarias y vaya que comidas maravillosas. La primera noche cenamos pizza y es la mejor que he probado nunca.
El trabajo es fácil y entretenido, cuando ya lo entiendes y lo has practicado. Hice comandas, recepción, serví desayunos,… read more
Ludwig
It was a pleasure to work during 3 weeks here. A nice family hostel where you will can meet people from around the world.
The job is easy (bar, restaurant). Ludwig the owner is really nice and an interesting people. He will ask you every day if everything is well for you, and if he has time, you will can discover… read more
