About Us; Our village

We built our village in the Amazon forest 6 years ago. It is located two days up-river by canoe, far away from the town of Rurrenabaque. We are 12 families living off fishing, hunting and gardening as our ancestors have done for many years. The forest is alive, clean and beautiful. It gives us many gifts; wood for our bows, arrows and for our homes; palms for our baskets, roofing and flooring; nuts for our milk; bark, leaves and roots for our medicines and food. We grow rice, yucca, bananas, coffee, papaya, sugarcane, pineapple, cacao, lemons. And more. We grow cotton-like plants; we harvest its fibers and use natural dyes to weave our bags.

Our goals

We want to stay healthy, to educate our children and to keep our tradition.

We are developing this project of inviting visitors in a careful manner so the life of the village remains tranquil, while at the same time opening relations with other people from other places. We are organizing the visits, taking care of everything during your stay with us. Our very good friend Frans Cayo in La Paz helps us with the contact with you and the preparations in Rurrenabaque.

The money provided from these visits is managed in the village through our council so all the decisions are made together. We use this money these ways;

• for schooling our children
• for creating a good sanitation system that keeps our forest clean and everybody healthy
• for providing each house with good water filtering system
• for securing a medical emergency fund
• for providing our houses with solar panels
• for building canoes for each family
• We want to be able to have solar powered boats some day so we will not need to buy gasoline

We are curious to meet people from other parts of he world. We choose to live in the forest and protect it. We understand that it is important to share our tradition and knowledge with you and we believe that when youÕll know our ways, good seeds will be planted in your world too.