Award-winning Mountain-top EcoLodge

AWARD-WINNING ECO LODGE IN THE ANDES, WITH 8 PRIVATE ROOMS, EACH WITH 2 DOUBLE BEDS (SOME ROOMS HAVE MORE BEDS), AND ONE SHARED BUNKHOUSE

This award-winning Eco Lodge aims to provide a comfortable and educational experience for guests, teaching them about the local area, local customs and Permaculture, while contributing to, and improving, the local community and the natural environment. Our goal is to be a leader in environmental stability and eco-tourism.
The Eco Lodge offers affordable lodging in the heart of the rural Ecuadorian Andes. Truly off the beaten path, you can enjoy horseback riding, mountain biking, & day hiking. Our hotel has spectacular views, delicious vegetarian cooking, home baked deserts, sauna, zipline cable swing, family fun, adventure & budget vacation.

Eco-Permaculture Features include: solar panels, adobe construction, composting toilets, recycling, roof water collectors, graywater systems, organic gardens, community education & aid work, reforestation, and erosion control.

The Eco Lodge is perched on a hillside, located just outside of the rural village of Chugchilan over 10,400 feet above sea level. The accommodation offers all the comforts of home, while exploring the real Andes of Ecuador. The property faces east across the Rio Toachi Canyon. You don’t have to go far to appreciate the beauty of the area, even our bathrooms have a spectacular view of mountains, plateau and canyon.
Enjoy the comfortable chalet-like lodge, relax around self-designed woodstove fireplaces, play scrabble and sip a glass of Ecuadorian Rum or a hot chocolate, pamper yourself with hot showers, delight in gourmet vegetarian meals, and after a long hike stretch out in the Yoga studio or leave your tensions behind in the sauna and hot tub.

THE ROOMS
COMFORTS AND FEATURES;

-Woodstoves & Showers
At this altitude, nights can get a little chilly
(often as low as 8° C / 56° Fahrenheit). All private rooms have self-designed efficient wood-burning stoves to keep things cosy. Showers are piping hot with all natural gravity fed water pressure, available 24 hours a day.

-Sound Silent Sleep
All beds are top quality Ecuadorian orthopaedic mattresses. Nights are cool high in the Andes, so the blankets are thick, and you will sleep soundly far from the hum of any highways and city traffic noise.

-The lodge is Intimate
The charm of the Eco Lodge is in its size. We cater to individual travellers, not to tour groups. With only eight private rooms, each with two double beds (some rooms have more beds) and one shared bunkhouse. You will notice personal touches all over the place. Enjoy home-baked chocolate brownies, banana bread and oatmeal cookies and there is always free, unlimited tea and coffee for you. We've tried to do everything possible to make your stay as relaxing and as enjoyable as possible. Dinner is served family-style in the home-like lodge, around a large table. We always encourage second helpings! You will be part of the family at the Eco Lodge.

WHAT'S INCLUDED?

-Meals;
Breakfast, packed lunch and dinner are included in the price. The Eco Lodge's international vegetarian dinners get rave reviews.

-Drinks;
We provide unlimited purified drinking water. You can fill your water bottles to take hikng or biking. Also included is organic shade-grown Ecuadorian brewed coffee and a wide variety of herbal and caffeinated teas, available self-service from 7:30 AM to 9:30 PM every day.

-Accommodation;
Rooms feature orthopaedic mattresses, incredible views and wood-burning stoves. All rooms have easy access to beautiful, spacious bathrooms, as well as showers with 24 hour hot water.

Tax & service charges are included in price.

ROOM OPTIONS

DELUXE PRIVATE ROOMS x 4
(Private Bathroom and Shower)
High on the property with a fantastic view we offer 4 rooms with attached (ensuite) private bathroom and shower. Like all of the bathrooms at the Eco Lodge, these feature environmentally friendly composting toilets and 24 hours a day hot water. There is also one Deluxe Private Room closer to the lodge.
Price Per person, per night; Single $60, Double $70, Triple $80, Quad+ $100.

STANDARD PRIVATE ROOMS x 3
(Private Room, Shared Bathroom and Shower)
We have three standard private accommodations tucked into a wooded area of the hillside. They share one composting toilet and a shower (24 hours hot water) between three rooms.
Price per person, per night; Single $40, Double $50, Triple $60, Quad +$70.

BUNKHOUSE
(Shared dormitory, shared bathroom and shower)
Our bunkhouse offers 10 beds in a three story a-frame house. Matrimonial beds are available for couples.
Price per person, per night $35

FOOD, SERVICES AND FEATURES

-Gourmet Vegetarian Meals
Breakfast, lunch and dinner are all included in the room price and all meals are wholesome vegetarian. Dinner is served family-style, promptly at 7 pm, and it is a feast to remember.

-Jazz and Pancakes
Every Sunday at the Eco Lodge we serve a special breakfast of Pancakes & Jazz. Don't forget to bring your saxophone! Thick, American pancakes piled high with fresh fruit salad, homemade sugarcane syrup, butter and jam. And always plenty of strong steaming hot coffee and tea while listening to Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Preservation Jazz Hall Band, Stan Getz and Ella Fitzgerald, just to name a few of our favourites.

-Home Baked Snacks
Oatmeal cookies, brownies and banana cake are available for purchase. We run on the honour system, so you don't have to dig into your pockets to pay each time you want a sweet or an ice-cold beer. Just mark it down on your tab and we will settle the bill before you leave. We also prepare a great cheese sampler featuring four cheeses from the local cheese factory in the high paramo. Cheese plate includes apple, tomato, onion, dijon mustard and bread.

-Beer, Wine, Liquor, Soda
We offer large ice cold Pilsner Beer (the most popular brand in Ecuador) as well as a wide variety of Chilean and Argentinean red and white wines. We also have a fully stocked liquor cabinet. Beer and cola are self-service available whenever you are thirsty. We are also happy to shake Martini's or mix your favourite cocktail. Catch us on Mexican Night for specials on Tequila shots!

-Friendly Animals
The 10-acre farm is growing. We've got a dog, a cat, pigs, chickens, rabbits, llamas, and sheep. All the animals are friendly and love attention. The llamas are in training for Andean Llama Treks. The chickens live in the back of the greenhouse (for warmth), where they lay eggs that get used for breakfast at the lodge.

There’s also a Yoga Studio, Sauna and Hot Tub, Gym, Book Exchange/Lending Library, access to the internet, a Water Slide and a Zip Line.

-Day Hiker's Paradise – Orientation
Surrounding the Eco Lodge are amazing trails in all directions. From our lodge you can take in the cloud forest in the Iliniza Ecological Preserve, the massive crater lake called Quilotoa and the Rio Toachi Canyon. We offer extensive maps, advice from 15 years of experience, and local native trail guides. We arrange hiking, horseback riding and mountain bike trips, many of which start and end at our lodge.

-Games
The Eco Lodge is proud to have built and maintain the world's highest frisbee golf course. Designed by Robin White, professional frisbee golf competitor, our 9-basket course stretches out over the top five acres of our mountainside property. See if you can beat the Par 34.
We also have a volleyball court, a horseshoes court and plenty of board games in the lodge.

-Star Gazing
Of course we can't guarantee clear night skies, but when the clouds do clear, the stars are fantastic out here. And you can see both the Big Dipper and the Southern Cross in our sky.

PLACES TO VISIT IN THE SURROUNDING AREA
Laguna Quilotoa, Cotopaxi Volcano, Rio Toachi Canyon, Canyon Plateau, Chinalo Furniture Workshop, Local Indigenous Market, Iliniza Cloud Forest, Cheese Factory - in the high paramó.