Help our local team welcome guests at our eco hostel in beautiful Palomino, Colombia

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  Description

  Hi, I’m Dany, a 33-year-old Colombian woman and the creator of a small eco hostel & camping project in Palomino, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast.
  
  Our land is full of trees, creating a fresh microclimate and shelter for squirrels, iguanas, birds, and many other animals. More than a hostel, this is a living permaculture project where we are slowly building a sustainable way of life, always in connection with nature.
  
  We are mainly looking for volunteers who enjoy hands-on, outdoor, and creative work, especially in:
  🌱 Permaculture & gardening: vegetable garden, planting, composting, soil care, watering systems
  🌿 Eco projects & sustainability: natural solutions, improving the land, working with nature
  🔨 Carpentry: building furniture, repairs, creative wood projects
  🧱 Construction & maintenance: simple structures, improvements, natural building techniques
  
  This is a great place for people who like learning by doing, working with their hands, and contributing to something meaningful.
  
  🌞 Life & community
  
  Life here is simple, calm, and community-based. We share daily tasks, meals, and moments with travelers from all over the world. We value respect, cooperation, and a relaxed rhythm.
  
  We also encourage healthy habits like conscious eating, yoga or movement practices, and activities that support personal and collective well-being — always with deep respect for nature.
  
  🌊 Location
  
  The eco hostel is located between two rivers that meet the sea, with beautiful views of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. It’s a peaceful, inspiring place — perfect for slowing down, connecting with nature, and being part of an eco-community.
  
  If you’re interested in permaculture, gardening, carpentry, construction, or sustainable living, you’ll likely feel at home here.

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Help with Eco Projects

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Farmstay help

  Help around the house

  Hospitality/Tourism

  General Maintenance

  House & pet sitting
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  Interests

  

  Plant care

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Hiking

  

  Mountain

  

  Nature

  

  Camping
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Palomino is a small town in the caribean coast with rivers, beutiful beaches, bars with cold beers and juices, pizzas, beutiful sunset, yoga, many cultural activities from here you can see the magnificent Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta. Everything is very close, you can share with cultures indigenus like arhuacos or kogis, surrounded by many typical people and tourists, places to walk and swim. Palomino can give you everything you want.

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  Help

  We need volunteers with good energy who want to make:
  
  * Marketing person
  
  * People interested in teaching: yoga, taichi, kirtan, meditation, calisthenics... other diciplines related with self care and self develop.
  
  *We need a carpenter to help us fixing and creating new furniture.
  
  * Reception and cleaning:
  
  - receiving guests and showing the place
  - Be in charge of reservations throw social media, booking ...
  - Answering the phone and messages
  - help with the order and cleaning of the place.
  - Help the guests with their questions and needs
  
  
  *️️ Maintenance and Gardening tasks:
  -Irrigation
  -Weeding garden
  -Make the compost
  -Rake the ground
  -Sort and clean the land
  -Take out garbage the two days that the truck passes
  -Collect wood and make fire. Make tea from the garden herbs and offer everybody
  -Prepare organic cleaning products

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Fluent
  Portuguese: Fluent

  This host offers a language exchange
  We speak spanish, english and portuguese and would always be willing to share any knowledge.
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  Accommodation

  Benefits:
  
  voluntering 14 hours/ week: acomodation in hammock or camping area.

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  What else ...

  From Palomino is 20 minutes by bus to Parque Tayrona, 1:30 minutes from the city of Santa Marta and 1:40 mins from the city of Riocacha-guajira. Sierra nevada area is full of beautiful towns with rivers, beautiful beaches and waterfalls.
  In Palomino you can do yoga, join many cultural activities as cumbia and afro dancing lessons, take a tour of the palomino river that flows into the sea, and enjoy a strong and wonderful sea.
  In palomino you find pharmacies, small shops, music, crafts, restaurants, bars to enjoy on the beach and quiet and great atmosphere.

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  The wifi works well. In rainy seasons, the electricity usually goes out and with it the wifi.

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  Can possibly accept pets

  We have a dog and two cats. There is no problem with them bringing pets if they take responsibility for them.

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  More than two

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  My animals / pets

  

  Gandalf

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