My lodging this week is a glamping-style tent on a farm about an hour outside of Quito. The AirBnB hosts are organic farmers, food activists, and academics, with a focus on agriculture sustainability, and the farm is a model for their work. Lots of beautiful green space, fresh fruit and vegetables, colorful flowers, and dozens of chickens.
I love feeling like I’m sleeping outdoors in this glamping tent, without the discomfort of camping. A wood-burning stove makes it extra cozy.
A separate tent is used for the kitchen/living area.
The bedroom tent doesn’t have electricity, whereas this tent does (as well as good WiFi) so I spend most of my time here, in front of the chicken coop!
Breakfast ingredients, most collected from the farm itself, are delivered to the kitchen tent each morning. I especially get a kick out of the cute little basket of omelette ingredients (eggs, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, garlic, celery) all fresh from the farm, and have been making myself tasty omelettes each day.
And this is where the eggs come from. The only down side to farm living is it gets noisy. It feels very serene — if you can ignore the chickens cackling, roosters crowing, cows mooing, and dogs barking!
From the farm there is a fabulous view of the snow-covered Cotopaxi, an active volcano in the Andes. Its last eruption was in 2016.
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