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20h
- Hours per week
- Help out and collaborate with your host only a few hours per week.
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- Help with painting or decorating the property facilities.
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- Help with painting, graffiti, sculpting or drawing.
What you get
3
- Days off per week
- Have some time off for yourself, go explore the city or rest for a while.
- Team Dorm
- You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.
- Tent
- You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.
- Fast Internet Access
- High-speed internet for you to work remotely
- Use our equipped kitchen
- Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.
- Free Hiking Tours
- We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!
- Free Parties
- Get free entrance for the best parties in town.
- Free Events
- Get free entrance for the best events in town.
- Yoga classes
- Take free yoga classes at our place.
- Dance classes
- Take free dance classes at our place.
- Language lessons
- Take free language classes at our place.
- Holistic Therapies
- You can take part in any of our therapeutic activities for free.
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- Stay at least
- 1 week
- Stay up to
- 3 weeks
The Experience
Take photos and videos, edit the content for instagram. We have a wild jungle with howlers monkeys and birds.It would be nice show the wild of the jungle and the animals. Underwater photography is needed, we have a reef with bioluminescent overnight. We have raining days, amazing sunsets,, many color and texture. Feel free to unleash your art, we want to be a space for creation and develop worldwide community.
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- Fluent English or Fluent English
- Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
What's not included
Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa
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Host & Team
Hours & Tasks
Eco Lodge
Learning & Fun
How this experience will transform you
- 13 Get in touch with nature
- 10 Learning about sustainability
- 8 Developing environmental awareness
- 7 Developing social awareness
- 7 Meeting international travelers
- 6 Practicing English
This host contributes to Sustainable Development Goals
- 11 12. Responsible consumption and production
- 10 14. Life below water
- 8 13. Climate action
Julio
Panama
Very good
11 days ago
Nina
Austria
My stay at the lodge with Julio, Viento and other volunteers was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Julio was a wonderful host. Full of heart, helpful and caring. While it took a bit of communication in the beginning, we quickly found our rhythm and built a trusting relationship. My time there was an adventure that brought me closer to nature, to myself, and a deeply sustainable way of living. If you are brave to step out your comfort zone, do it and live in the moment! I could write many more things, but most importantly I want to say gracias de todo corazón Julio!! Nos vemos!! Nina :)
12 days ago
Julio replied
Beautiful message... I can feel your words, thanks for your trust!
nos vemos seguro!
Benedikt
Austria
Simplicity in touch with nature. It was for me a authentic jungle and beach experience, I had a lot of time to observe the nature environment, because I felt far away from my normal outside world. A place and project where I felt soon connected to and liked to give my energy and passion into it. Julio was for me a good host, he showed me his good intentions for this place, this place inspired my creativity, we did good work together :) I'm greatful Julio that you share your minimalistic jungle life with others, curious traveler's like me ;) And I wish you and Viento all the best!
2 months ago
Julio replied
Beni hermanito , Dankema is your home too..is the pure energy of the jungle, come whenever you want (always welcome). I'm glad to coexist in space and time. Keep your fire alive to spot others in the life journey, same as you do with me.
big hugs x siempre y para siempre.
Laura
Germany
I stayed at the lodge for 3 weeks and the jungle / nature experience was great. I'm very glad that I spent my time there with other volunteers. Matthew and Zander's review is very accurate and I agree, that it was a bit unorganized and in general an up and down. In the end (the last few days) it got a bit better with getting clear instructions and Julio really showing how he wants something to be (for example which plants should be removed). I would have liked it, if it had been like that from the start. Despite everything, I was happy to have had the experience in the jungle.
4 months ago
Julio replied
Im just gonna write something cause you sent me a WhatsApp message asking to do it. If you are a volunteer I cant wake you up, I cant tell you everyday the same task, I talk with you many times explaining this a heart project, community and land connection. If you don't feel it that's ok, the only day I be more strict (Zander request) everybody complain. Breakfast is at 7 am not at 9 am...also the day I told you is forbidden cook at night you jell to me... You forgot this is my house
Matthew
United States
Beautiful, isolated coastal Caribbean jungle. Julio is a very inconsistent host. Sometimes being kind, thoughtful, and accommodating. For example when I was sick and needed meds, he escorted me to a pharmacy in town. Other times I found myself frustrated with the structure or lack there of. One morning we enjoy breakfast together until 8:30. The next morning we are being rushed to the point of skipping breakfast so we can adhere to the 8am start mandated by the schedule. I found the programming to be directionless. Julio rarely worked with us. I want to recommend but I cannot.
4 months ago
Julio replied
Dear Matthew, I sent you the schedule twice with all the task very well described at the pdf. When I gave you instructions you make faces to me and I wasn't feel good with that kind of interactions, so I try to avoid giving you instructions . The day you described I rushed to skipping breakfast was a request for your friend Zander who isn't in the platform and he comes with you. Be aware I wasn't happy with your behavior to not following my rules I just want to have peace in the place I live.
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