Live close to nature & practice English w/ our happy & fun team

Connect with nature: 3 travelers recommend this experience for reconnecting with nature
Expand your environmental consciousness: A traveler felt they returned from this experience with a greater environmental consciousness
Accepts couples and pairs of volunteers

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What you offer

24h

Hours per week: Help out and collaborate with your host only a few hours per week.

Bartending: Make and serve drinks and help maintain the beverages inventory.

Kitchen Hand: Help prepare, finish and serve meals.

Cooking: Choose the menu, pick ingredients and cook delicious dishes.

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What you get

Days off per week: Have some time off for yourself, go explore the city or rest for a while.

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.

Free Tours: We’ll take you on tours and rides around town. For free!

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Support: Get help from the Worldpackers support team in case you need it, at any point of your trip.

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Availability

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Stay at least: 3 weeks

The Experience

We are a luxury eco lodge by the mountains in Brazil, 4h from Rio de Janeiro. The project is very special, inside an Environmental Reserve where we have lots of waterfalls, lakes, trails and beautiful landscape. The main reason to host volunteer is to attract English speakers so we provide an experience for our local team to learn the language. Probably, the tasks will be related to Kitchen Hand, Gardening, guiding, etc.

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Requirements

Fluent English
Over 18 years old
Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers
Be from outside Brazil

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

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c) How much did you spend on this trip?

3 Reviews

4.0

Host & Team

4.5

Hours & Tasks

4.0

Eco Lodge

4.5

Learning & Fun

4.0

How this experience will transform you

3 Get in touch with nature
1 Immersing in the local culture
1 Developing environmental awareness
1 Meeting international travelers
1 Meeting locals
1 Learning about sustainability

This host contributes to Sustainable Development Goals

3 15. Life on land
2 12. Responsible consumption and production

Salomé

Colombia

I think is one of the best volunteers from the app. You have a place for yourself which is confortable and beautiful (10mins away from the hotel). You live surrounded by amazing nature, lakes, waterfalls and animals. People and hosts are wonderfull and you can talk and adjust with them anything you need. Make sure you talk about food in advance in case you have special needs. Work is easy and they respect the schedule completely. You will live 45 mins away from the next city, so it could get lonely at times, just make sure you are ok it. You have a rest/bar 5mins walk.

2 months ago

Vladimir

Georgia

Well, my first volunteer experience was not exactly the best. The place itself is great, as is every single person who works in this hotel. However, be prepared that almost nothing of what is written in the description of the position is actually true. There will be no gardening, no guiding, only washing the dishes, because this is the only work where your help will be actually needed. Don't read the PDF file that Claudia will send you at the beginning, and don't try to be proactive. Just work in the kitchen, wash the dishes, and everything will be great. Only 600 characters for the review???

2 months ago

Claudia replied

Unfortunately we had a strange experience with Vladimir, he didn't accept anything we said to him, he questioned everything and always had enormous difficulty adapting to people, culture, etc. It seems like you have a very closed personality and culture. We couldn't make him understand the tasks, and finally, none of the team members were able to interact with him. So, he didn't even help us much (because he would question any different task) and he also didn't interact with the team (since training English was always our main objective). It seems he wnated to interview us all the time instead of being part or adding nice things to the team. The PDF in question is a manual with arrival instructions, local rules, etc., I didn't understand why he didn't like it, it was even written by the volunteer before him where she helped us put everything that would be relevant for future people to know.

Nikita

South Africa

This experience was amazing. You really are immersed in nature. This experience is more about teaching English than anything else, the people are so kind. I would highly recommend if you are wanting to get away from the hustle and bustle. The closest town is 4,5km away so no quick midnight snack tracks. And traveling to and from the property is a long journey but once you are there the views are terrific. Working hours are really great and host is very flexible as long as there is communication. And work tasks are really basic; washing dishes, carrying stuff to help set up or taking photo

3 months ago

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Hosted by Claudia

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Response Time: This host usually writes back in 8 days

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