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We are Eco friendly lodge situated in Kataragama, a small town located 238km South East of Colombo. Surrounded by the sacred river and beautiful lakes and in the border of the Yala National Park.
For a sustainable tourism in Sri Lanka. On the border of the Yala NP to enjoy the wild life and Safari.
We are surrounded by an incredible biodiversity and in our garden we can see lots of animals and enjoy the peacefull atmosphere.
Muna and Carla are the key people behind this place.
Muna is Sri Lankan and the heart of the place. Owner, manager and the main responsible. He has a deep passion for nature, sustainability, and creating a peaceful environment for travelers. With extensive knowledge about the local area, wildlife, spirituality and culture, he ensures all to have an authentic experience. His warm hospitality and dedication to eco-friendly living make the retreat a special place.
Carla is from Portugal and brings a global perspective to the place. She has a crucial role in the retreat’s atmosphere. She is the back office, manager, bookings department and events organization and she is always connected with the people.
This is an ecological lodge for a responsible tourism exploring the wild life in a responsible way. With permaculture and spiritual concepts.
We have 6 traditional Eco rooms (build in a rustic/ natural way), a mud house restaurant and a huge jungle garden.
We are a family running this Eco lodge concept, we are surrounded by an amazing biodiversity with a precious landscape and natural place.
There is always loads of things to do and we would like your help.
We work with Eco tourism and sustainability more than 15 years now.
We organize our own responsible safari, Yoga & Meditation retreats and we cultivate organic rice and seasonal vegetables in our Eco farm.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
House sitting
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
A nice atmosphere in an open space for all the visitors an exchange to participate in our daily workshop.
Developing and learning an Eco sustainable tourism in a srilanka life style. We want to offer a unique experience and connecting also with different cultures.
Help
We are looking for:
👉 Active, serious, responsible and nature enthusiastic people that want to join us.
👉People who collaborate seriously and are not afraid to put their hands on the work.
👉 We need volunteers to help in general maintenance, cleaning, housekeeping, preparing the rooms/cottages for hosting guests, gardening, welcome those guests... to help also in the restaurant serving the meals...
When we have guests can be harder and with 2 shifts (morning and night to help in the restaurant).
👉 You are also welcome if you have other skills and you would like to help in the areas of photography, video, social media. writing etc....
We offer free accommodation and the lunch. So feel free to prepare your other meals in our kitchen (note: we appreciate you bring only vegetarian ingredients).
In our neighborhood there are several local restaurants with very affordable meals (in case you want to try outside).
👉Note that this is our main work and living community life, We appreciate responsible volunteers with respect for the common space of the guests, staff and family Also respect be conscious about Sri Lankan traditions.
👉 We need volunteers for 1 month or minimum 3weeks, we really need conscious people who come to help us in our daily work and not just spend a few days passing by and then go...
We thank you for your attention and understanding.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Portuguese: Fluent
Accommodation
Simple and clean room, provided with bed linen, fan and mosquito net. Cozy bathroom attached outside.
What else ...
Kataragama is on the border of the Yala National Park, surrounded by the river, beautiful lakes, and the jungle. It’s one of the most visited, sacred multi-religious sites of Sri Lanka, Surrounded by beautiful lakes and nature.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
My animals / pets
Feedback (16)
Was a pleasure to have her collaborating with us and beeing part of our daily workshop and experience.
She is very kind, polite, hardworking and with a great soul.
I strongly recommend her as a volunteer.
Wish her lods of luck and all the best in life.
Was a pleasure to have him collaborating with us, he stayed for more than 1 month.
He is extremely responsible, he works very hard and he learn tasks quickly.
Was great having Daniel being part of our team and beeing part of our daily workshop and experience.
He can carry out the tasks perfectly without any… read more
And for that you get so much back...bathing in the beautiful river every day, so many animals and birds just in front of your door and a very green, peaceful… read more
Was a pleasure to have them collaborating with us.
They are kind, hardworking and with a great soul.
I strongly recommend them.
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Was a pleasure to have her collaborating with us and beeing part of our daily workshop and experience.
She is very kind, polite, hardworking and with a great soul.
I strongly recommend her as a volunteer.
Wish her lods of luck and all the best in life.
Was a pleasure to have him collaborating with us, he stayed for more than 1 month.
He is extremely responsible, he works very hard and he learn tasks quickly.
Was great having Daniel being part of our team and beeing part of our daily workshop and experience.
He can carry out the tasks perfectly without any… read more
And for that you get so much back...bathing in the beautiful river every day, so many animals and birds just in front of your door and a very green, peaceful… read more
Was a pleasure to have them collaborating with us.
They are kind, hardworking and with a great soul.
I strongly recommend them.
They showed and explained to me all I needed to know to be able to help them, and were super enthusiastic to show me a very authentic side of Sri Lanka. I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to stay… read more
She was an excellent collaborator, always available, attentive, effective and with an incredible sensitivity to natural and sustainable causes.
She is a hard worked and never afraid to put her hand on work.
It was a great pleasure to have her in our Eco team and family.
Wish her the best in life and we all… read more
She is such a great person, very active and enthusiast person.
She was always on time and ready to help us every day. Gave us a great help on the social media, river clean up and gave us nice ideas too.
With a postive spirit and always ready to help the… read more
He is such a great person, very active and enthusiast person.
He was always on time and ready to help us. Gave us lods of help and nice ideas.
With a postive spirit and always ready to help the community.
We felt him like part of our family and we spend such a great… read more
We were able to learn about helping and maintaining an ECO resort with cleaning, gardening, cooking, and serving guests. Learned many hands-on lessons from… read more
They gave us an incredible help and they took very well care of our entire property.
A very nice friendly persons, good workers, flexible on our time table and always ready for help at any time.
Quickly learned the daily work to do and they made an… read more
She gave us a very good help.
A very nice friendly person and good worker.
It was a pleasure to share our natural lodge with her.
A very positive person.
Wish you Julia the best in life.
They gave us an incredible amazing help and they took very well care of our entire property.
A very nice friendly persons, good workers, flexible on our time table and always ready for help at any time.
Quickly learned the daily work to do and they made… read more
The perks of the job are amazing and the location is simple stunning. If you have the chance to be a volunteers here you’ll count yourself as lucky as we feel.The agreement is 5hrs per… read more
He gave us an incredible amazing help.
A very nice friendly person, good worker, flexible on our time table and always ready for help at any time.
Quickly learned the daily work to do and they made a good service for our guests.
It was a pleasure to share our natural lodge and share our… read more
They gave us an incredible amazing help.
A very nice friendly persons, good workers, flexible on our time table and always ready for help at any time.
Quickly learned the daily work to do and they made a good service for our guests.
It was a pleasure to share our natural lodge… read more
They were more than 1 month and they gave us an incredible amazing help.
A very nice friendly persons, good workers, flexible on our time table and always ready for help at any time.
Quickly learned the daily work to do and they made a good service for our guests.
It was a… read more
They gave a great help and also friendship during their time with us.
They understood straight away our Eco concept and working daily plan. They are extremely open and active persons, with out any problems to our different daily routine.
They did it will all challenge!
We are… read more
Muna and Carla host an excellent eco lodge in unspoilt beauty. This was a great workaway experience and genuine cultural exchange; where we got to see how the locals really live and celebrate in Kataragama, a sacred place for Sri Lankan's. You will also see more wildlife here than imaginable.
We were cooked 3 delicious… read more
They collaborated with us for more than 1 month and they are an amazing persons.
Good workers, friendly, flexible on our time table and always ready for help at any time.
Quickly learned the daily work to do provinding a good service for our guests.
Positive communicators and always a nice… read more
It was very nice to have them and share our natural resort with them.
They are a easy going cheerful persons. A very dedicated, attentive and responsible persons and always ready to help.
Thank you so much for everything Mihai and Iveta, many blessings in your way!
Good worker, flexible on our time table and always ready for help at any time.
Quickly learned the daily work to do provinding a good service for our guests.
Positive communicator and always a nice word to our guests.
It was a big pleasure to receive him on… read more
