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San Miguel del Bala, Bolivia. Community Eco-Lodge &
Eco-Tourism Rain forest hikes in and around the Madidi National Park. Comfortable lodging in cabins with electricity and private bathroom. |
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Be a volunteer in our indigenous village in the Bolivian Amazon - an experience for a life time !
We need a volunteer English teacher in our little San Miguel del Bala Community.
With the help of United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) and NGO's, we
have built the San Miguel del Bala Eco-Lodge. Today we are the
owners and operators of our Eco-Lodge and the tours we offer to the
rainforest.
We need to learn more English to offer the best possible service to our
guests.
Therefore, we are looking for volunteer English teachers, who can help
us short term or long term to continue improving what we have already learnt.
Our community has about 200 inhabitants. We are native Tacanas, but our
daily language is Spanish. For us it is not easy to learn English, but we know
that tourism is our future, and that most guests/tourists don't speak Spanish.
Our school in
San Miguel del Bala can be opened for English classes. Our aim is to meet and
understand our guests without losing our own culture. (Cf. www.sanmigueldelbala.com/Ethics.html).
Our Eco-Lodge is consolidated, things works, we receive guests, and they
love San Miguel del Bala !
High season is ahead of us, and we have many reservations. But still it
may be a long way to a real economical success. Though, all involved are
optimistic, and we are working hard. We focus on the daily operation of the
Eco-Lodge and the tours, and on marketing and leaning English.
If you are fully Spanish speaking, you also have the chance to work some
days as an interpreter on the tours. A great way to combine (volunteer)
business and pleasure!
You can read more about us here at our homepage www.sanmigueldelbala.com or search
for "San Miguel del Bala" (with quotation marks) on the internet.
Pictures from San Miguel del Bala: http://picasaweb.google.com/SanMiguelDelBala
For further information and coordination of your volunteer work, please
contact us.
Our e-mail address is: info
at sanmigueldelbala dot com
(Please insert the proper signs instead of ‘at’ and ‘dot’, and of course
no spaces).
You can write in English.
We hope to hear from you !
San Miguel del Bala offers a wide variety of ecotourism packages for you
to discover our rain forest environment and Tacana culture while comfortably
lodged in private, local style cabins.
San Miguel del Bala is located three kilometers from the entrance to the
Madidi National Park, and only 40 minutes by boat along the Beni River up
stream from the town of Rurrenabaque.
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