Hostal cabaña Punta la Barca
Live authentically reconnect with the world 🌎
Coliving, coworking, experiential learning ☀️
Long term travelers, remote workers, locals 👨👩👦💻🌊
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Still place in the young adults group this July-August for immersion travel 🙌🔥!! Join for two weeks or the full six weeks. Also looking for Ecuadorian youngsters to join in the international group 🤙! What does this look like practically? *For 4 half days a week, we take you along and you help us out. *Help in daily life, from making empanadas and cleaning swordfish, to filling the water well, keeping the river free of plastic, and guiding children *Learn local skills such as making artesanías, searching for octopus, and cutting bamboo with a machete *Discover the wisdom of community life, and open your mind through campfires and intercultural connection, sleep with a fisher family *English–Spanish exchange *Live on deserted beaches, see whales every day, and explore the tropical forest of Ecuador *You get taken along fútbol, surf, kitesurf, yoga, bonfires.. The rest of the time is free to fill in yourself. You contribute as a coliver for accommodation and food. The contribution also helps to make projects possible that work towards a more free, fair and sustainable community (like the Niños Libres, Ocean Connection, and other initiatives). #volunteering #southamerica #worldschooling #homeschooling #gapyear #internship
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Six weeks of travel immersion this july-august for young adults at Punta la Barca 🔥🙌. Still place!!! Contact us 🤙 Travel immersion is a structured exchange where the traveler helps in what is needed for the place and the community, and PLB provides guidance and takes the traveler along in daily life. It's volunteering without the white saviour syndrome 🙄😉. For you as a traveler, it facilitates even more the the contact between travelers and locals, and the experiential learning, life learning, personal growth, mind opening, worldschooling.. that comes from it 🙌 And for PLB, it allows us to work more consistently together towards a more free, fair and sustainable community with the village 🔥 Interesed? Let. Us. Know. NOW 🤗❤️ #ecuador #southamerica #volunteering #learningspanish #worldschooling #homeschooling
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Punta la Barca is slow simple outdoors living together at the Ecuadorean coast. It has 6 rooms and 2 houses for travelers with and without kids to stay some weeks to several months. There is a system of cooking for each other 4 nights a week that glues the group together, there are amazing focus corners to find your own space, there is a kids initiative every morning for our youngest travelers to join in, volunteer opportunities for those who wanna be more part of the village, and the beach and the bonfire at arms reach. Quick news: *Six weeks immersion travel for young adults (16-20y) this July-August! The combi of intercultural coliving and volunteering. Still place left 🔥🤗 *The Niños Libres, our local kids group, got sponsored for swimming lessons and excursions! 1000 thanks to Que Te Vaya Bien 🥳❤️ *Micho (coordinator at Punta la Barca) is getting married in October! Feel welcome to celebrate with us💕 Want to keep updated? Inscrbe on our monthly newsletter at bit.ly/news_puntalabarca. No bullshit, only authentic sharing 🤗 #ecuador #southamerica #coliving #communityliving #solotravel #digitalnomad #worldschooling #unschooling #kitesurf #surf
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Close your eyes and feel... La tranquilidad The birds, the sea, the wind on your face Your bare feet running on the sand The empty agenda 🙌 The freedom The feeling of stillness and inner peace And acceptance of all that comes up Everything good as it is One with elements One with the sun that is going down Someone greeting with an 'Hola!' The enthusiasm to light a fire and talk deep To dance and sing Energy to focus and create Time is different Kids are running around Life as it should be What are you waiting for? Punta la Barca needs you too to co-create life for a while♥️🤗🔥 Inscribe here for our monthly newsletter! --> bit.ly/news_puntalabarca
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Last few days in Punta La Barca. We’ll miss this place, the sunsets, the dogs, and the friends we made. Next stop, Peru 🇵🇪 #TogetherElsewhere #PuntaLaBarca #EcuadorCoast #FamilyTravel #SlowTravel
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A few relaxed days in Punta La Barca, Ecuador. Sunsets every night that the photos just can’t quite capture. Lots of time in the ocean. Liliana turned 6, which she celebrated with new friends ☺️🌊✨ #TogetherElsewhere #PuntaLaBarca #ecuador #FamilyTravel #worldschooling
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Why is Punta la Barca I can tell you what is Punta la Barca. It’s a coliving, where different cultures and generations meet each other in an authentic way. It’s a wonderful place at the ecuadorean coast where you can see the whales jump every day and surf on deserted beaches. It’s a project that is run by our fisher-farmer family -people that know how to live with little finances, know how to live communally, and have the heart in the right place. But more interesting than what is Punta la Barca.. is why is Punta la Barca. And that is because we believe in a different world. A world where rich and poor grow towards each other. Where we can connect authentically beyond cultures. We believe in working together.. Because in the end, we all want the same. Free, fair, sustainable. Nothing better than going after that goal together. A world created step by step, starting right here right now, with what there is and what there isn’t. That’s what we believe in. That 's what we do. And that’s what we do together with you, traveler, friend ❤️. Come as a family, join the Niños Libres. Come as a remote worker, come as a surfer, or come just to feel what I'm talking about. Come to do a travel immersion, where we take you along while you help us four half days a week. This July-August we organize a small group of adventurous open-minded +-18 year olds from all over, to experience and create together in a travel immersion. Info session on 16th of march online, send me a message to join! Big hug ❤️🤙🔥
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Families here with older teenagers or young adults, around 18 years old.. this one is for you 🤙🔥 With Punta La Barca, we are organizing a 6-week immersion travel this July–August. Something truly special, if I may say so myself.. 🤗❤️ Expect a small group of international, Ecuadorian, and Belgian (my nationality) young people. They help alongside us 4 half days per week (daily community life, making empanadas, guiding children, English–Spanish language exchange, maintaining the food forest, the Punta La Barca project, animals, building, keeping the fire going..). The rest of the time is free for them to fill in themselves (chilling at the beach, kite/surfing, learning Spanish, exploring together, whale watching, studying online, playing football with the fishermen, yoga..). It’s an experience that goes far beyond “just traveling.” It’s freedom in its purest form, and collaborating within a culture that breathes community. And feeling that across all those cultures, nationalities, and social classes, we are simply connected in the shared act of building something meaningful together. It is also the ideal environment for young people to step away from their usual routine, slow down, and allow themselves to be inspired. Some words from young people who joined last year: “I lived together with people who carry stories and experiences that school or work could never teach. Staying at Punta La Barca was fantastic. I learned, experienced, and discovered so much.” – Mona, 18 years old “A moment I will never forget is little 2-year-old Alecito who wanted to draw every day. And the whales jumping out of the water. What I miss most about Ecuador is the peace and the view.” - Isaac, 17 years old Interested? I’m hosting an online info session on March 16th — you’re very welcome! Send me a message through WhatsApp on 0032468072294. And if you happen to know someone in your friends or family group for who this is made.. so much thanks to help spread this initiative 🙏🤗
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🎥 conozca el mundo de los Niños Libres 🌱✨! Hace unas semanes, estos tres niños tuvieron una misión especial: crear un video mostrando las áreas donde pueden estar, jugar y sentirse libres. Con mucha ganas y inspiriacion decidieron qué mostrar: los rincones donde juegan, los espacios donde crean, los lugares donde se sienten 🤗.. Hasta supermotivado de hacerlo en un idioma nuevo 💪 Así se vive Niños Libres: dándoles voz, respetando sus tiempos, acompañando sin controlar, y parte de la comunidad. 🌈 🌊✨
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How can you join Punta la Barca? *as a coliver: you have your own room or house, shared spaces, breakfast, monday-thursday shared dinners, and coworking space *as a local family in the niños libres: kids join the niños libres program monday-thursday in the morning, friday in the afternoon; adults use the coworking space *as a coliving family: the wonderful combination of coliver + niños libres *as an immersion-coliver: coliver + plus you work together with locals for 3h a day #beyourselftogether #nonviolentcommunication #onlinecircle #autentic
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Sophie F
★★★★★
A home away from home with the ocean at the doorstep. A place to connect through culture and community. Would recommend 100%. ❤️
Mathilde N
★★★★★
Super séjour là bas!, proximité immédiate de l'océan, la vue depuis les cabanes est magnifique. L'endroit est vraiment tranquille et l'ambiance très conviviale et chaleureuse.
Jonathan Peña
★★★★★
Conocí el lugar espectacular los felicito
Marie-Monique Franssen
★★★★★
Punta la Barca is like a home away from home, a community you didn’t know you needed. In the two months that I stayed there, Inge, Juan, their children, Micho, Ana, Nexar and the entire family became like my own. This place will hold a special place in my heart forever. Thank you for everything ❤️
Tiago
★★★★★
Foi a melhor experiencia de hospedagem que tivemos em 7 meses viajando pela America do Sul! Punta la Barca não é apenas de um lugar lindo, com uma bela praia, mas sim um lar de conexões verdadeiras, ajuda mútua e de ricas trocas. Pude trabalhar online enquanto meu filho brincava com as outras crianças, fazíamos refeições em conjunto e tinha até uma escola Montessori ao lado que meu filho adorou. Um ambiente familiar e comunitário que deixará saudades!
gloria narcisa murillo lopez
★☆☆☆☆
Es muy acogedor y y frente al Mar
Christa Graeff
★★★☆☆
It is a very nice hostel, nice and helpfully stuff. I felt very welcome! a quite beach and peacful place without many tourrists. Unfortunutly the room where we slept wasnt very clean tho.. some animals feces felt at our bed at night,two times.. there wasnt a mosquito protection :/
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