Cahuasquí · Imbabura · Ecuador
An island in the sky, built by hand.
You sleep open to the sky on recycled plastic decking, under a fig tree, an orange tree, an avocado tree and a custard apple tree. There is solar light after dark, a river-stone outhouse, and no schedule to keep.
The Higo Platform is our off-grid stay. A recycled plastic deck was built around an old fig tree, an orange tree, an avocado tree and a custard apple tree, and it holds an open-air canvas bell tent, a hand-built river-stone outhouse and solar light after dark. It sleeps two, and it is the quietest and most open place to sleep on the farm.
The lodge
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Creation of The Glamping Higo Platform
Built around the fig tree
We call it the Higo Platform because it was built next to an old fig tree, and higo is the Spanish word for fig. An orange tree, a custard apple tree and an avocado tree frame the rest of the deck. Rather than cut them down, we built the recycled plastic decking in among the fruit trees, so guests sleep under their canopy with the sky open above and the valley dropping away below. The river-stone outhouse came next, built entirely by hand from stones gathered out of the creek. It is the most off-grid stay on the farm, and the one guests talk about most.
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