Local community homestay
Salasaca,
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Twin room in a Hostel
Your impact host isJorge
About your accomodation
Our cosy hostel in traditional architectural style has single and twin rooms, with shared bathrooms and hot water. We also offer a restaurant service with delicious local food.
The accommodation is surrounded by waterfalls, mountains and volcanoes. You can enjoy the Baños de Agua Santa, which offer amazing waterfalls and thermal waters, and observe the Tungurahua volcano, active since 1999.
You can also hike to the Cotopaxi volcano or Chimborazo, the highest mountain in Ecuador. The Amazon is also nearby and invites you to discover it.
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Explore
Discover authentic places apart from mass tourism
Support
Your trip directly funds the local projects
Sustain
Strengthen communities & ecosystems
Get to know the project and the host
Jorge
5 Years our partner
Hi, I'm Jorge and I’ll be happy to host you during your stay!
Turismo Comunitario Salasaka is a community–based tourism organization set in Huasalata Community, Salasaka, Ecuador.
Salasaka, an indigenous town located in the Ecuadorian highland, is settled by families full of life, love for their customs, and deep commitments to preserving their culture and environment.
Indigenous families invite you to experience their customs, food, lifestyle, set of beliefs, and the most comfortable accommodation service.
Exploring Salasaka you can see, hear, touch, taste and do things you might have never done otherwise.
Interacting directly with Salasakas customs and manners by staying with local families will allow you to gain a new perspective on culture.
Ultimately by choosing to visit Salasaka, you
Activities
Various experiences and activities can be organized on site. For example, a traditional medicine ritual experience with a local yachak or the traditional process of making clothes.
You will be able to taste local food prepared with the fresh vegetables from the gardens. Moreover, you can visit trails on foot and …
Offerings
- Close to nature
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- Project tour possible
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- Electricity
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Location
How to get there
If you are coming from the north (Quito, Cotopaxi) or from the South (Guayaquil or Chimborazo), or from the Amazonian region you need to take a taxi or public bus to the Comunidad Huasalata which is settled at the north of Salasaka's town, near/before to La Parroquia El Rosario, it is 7 minutes by car or bus, or 45 minutes walking.
The guest house and the hostel and the project workplace are settled in Comunidad Huasalata's principal avenue entrance, next to the Asequia Albornos bridge.
The reference is casa de eugenio espejo, "el cieguito".
