Categoría: Rest

In the highlands there is an old and beautiful belief that water carries energy, and that a body can be washed clean of far more than dust. During the June festivals, families walk to sacred waterfalls like Peguche in the dark and bathe at midnight in a ritual called Armay Tuta, letting the falling water carry away the heaviness of the year. You do not have to take part in a ceremony to feel the sense behind it. Spend a few days near moving mountain water and you understand exactly why people have always come here to be restored.

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The word ecolodge gets used loosely these days, so let us tell you what it means to us. There is a phrase in Kichwa, sumak kawsay, that Ecuador loved so much it wrote it into the national constitution. It is usually translated as good living or living well, but it means something deeper than comfort. It is a life in balance, with the land, with your neighbours and with time. That idea, more than any brochure word, is what a true wilderness ecolodge is built on.

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