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Hi, we are Gerardo and Luis!
We need a lot of help in permaculture - our vision is to create an Ecotouristic Campsite! We are currently building up the place and hope to receive tourists by June 2023.
We are located in between Cacalchen and Citilcum, these are two small towns close to Izamal a big City with a lot of ancient history. Also called the Yellow City.
We are surrounded with the friendliest yucatanean locals, close to magic towns, cenotes, 50 minutes by car from the beach and 45 minits from the safest city in Mexico... Merida, Yucatan!
If you have experience with permaculture, building with recycled materials, living the simple camping life-style, be welcome and be apart of this project and help with sustainable concepts, ideas and action !
We have now a Mexican outside kitchen (made from local wood) ,tents and hamocks to sleep in for the volunteers, a simple dry eco bathroom, and a small house and a place to keep our tools.
We are now planting fruit trees so gardening, watering the plants, gathering fire wood, helping with construction, and your ideas to improve the project are very welcome.
So if you enjoy nature and its animals, you are not afraid of spiders, are a practical person who likes to work and live in a community life style and sleep under a sky full of stars , this is the right place for you ...
Please if you can bring your flash light, biodegradable soap, and positive spirit, we are really looking forward to meet you !!
hasta pronto :D
Types of help and learning opportunities
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainablity goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You will learn a lot about Mexican Yucatecan culture, mayan constructions skills , you will learn something about eco tourism and learn with me about permaculture or teach me more about permaculture.
Help
You dont need to be an expert in any specific task but you should be motivated to learn new things or teaching something you can contribute to the team!
Team player mentality is essential and of course we always invite creativity! You have to love nature, getting a little dirty, organic lifestyle and meeting new cultures.
We often work Monday-Friday, Saturdays and Sundays are our days to rest and recharge! We often work in the mornings but sometimes we work in the afternoon.
I am very easy going and flexible with our schedule.
We need help with gardening, building the campsite, making trails out of stones, promoting us on social media, feeding tand cleaning he chickens and much more!
If you dont have any specific skills but you wanna help or learn and you’re motivate please contact me and for sure I will find something to do for you.
Languages
Languages spoken
Spanish: Fluent
English: Intermediate
German: Beginner
Portuguese: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
I would like to improve my English and German but also I would like to help you improve your Spanish, so we can talk in Spanish or English :) whatever you feel comfortable.
Accommodation
In exchange for your work we provide a sleeping space , simple basic needs like toilette paper, water for drink and organic soup for dishes.
You stay directly at the project where we work and spend most of our time, you will have a "wild" experience with mother nature. We provide a tent, an air matres, a pillow and blankets. We can cook in our outdoor kitchen with wood and we can make campfires. We sometimes have electricity and we pump up our own water, we have ecological dry bathrooms and a "bucket shower" and solar lights. Most of the time, we share some of our groceries and cook together as a group, but if you would like to cook your own food, thats fine, too.
We also have 2 bikes if you would like to bike to the nearby cities and a small pool to get fresh.
We dont provide meals, but we do provide freshly laid organic eggs from our chickens, cooking utensils (cooking oil, herbs, salt/pepper, sugar, etc.), drinking water, coffee/tea and an unforgetable experience :D
What else ...
There are buses that go to the city and also sometimes we can go to the beach together in my car to see the sunsets or just go and eat delicious food around the nearby town. In your free time you can visit a lot of places near by and non Touristic CENOTES (it’s like a hole with natural water). You can also go alone wherever on the weekends. I can give you great advice on different places to explore, as i am guiding groups in an exchange with the Erasmus Univer city all over Mexico in my free time.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
Any size, the property is really big.
Can possibly accept pets
small cats and dogs but ofcourse talk to the host first before arival.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
15 hours/week- no food
Feedback (26)
Sin duda algunas cosas de las que hacemos no son del todo fáciles pero ellos aprenden muy rápido y su aportación fue de gran ayuda.
El idioma nunca fue una limitante, hablan español perfecto esto nos hizo… read more
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Sin duda algunas cosas de las que hacemos no son del todo fáciles pero ellos aprenden muy rápido y su aportación fue de gran ayuda.
El idioma nunca fue una limitante, hablan español perfecto esto nos hizo… read more
Cuando les escribí, les dije claramente cuáles eran mis objetivos: salir de la urbe y recolectar con la naturaleza, participar en el proyecto y aprender y conocer la cultura local, tocar la tierra con los… read more
Undoubtedly a job in the jungle is hard, this can range from planting to moving stones and building.
Edward unfortunately or gracefully had to live the moment of… read more
Thank you Katta for your presence and being with you!
Thank you for the experience!
Met some cool people, explore Yucatán… read more
If you want to escape from the city and get the chance to stay in contact with local people this is the right place.
Luis is such a good and funny guy, always available for his guests, he will make you feel home as you get there introducing you to the people of Bokoba which are super… read more
Pasó en mes aquí trabajando con Hugo, Luis, Memo, y los otros volontarios.
La organización puede ser mejorada, especialmente con los desayunos,
pero Luis fue a la escucha de cada problema encontrada.
Luis y Hugo organizaron un fin de semana a la playa y pasamos un excelente momento ! Hugo fue tambien un incredible guía… read more
the work is tough but rewarding, there's a lot to be done at the project!
if… read more
The camaraderie with the other workawayers, the many trips that Hugo does with all of us and even if the work is hard and tedious under the burning sun it feels so great to do it and enjoy the results of the work.
I loved top experience the… read more
