What a photograph cannot tell you

Accommodation is the part of a retreat website that most often oversells. A wide lens, a good hour of light and a careful crop can make any room look like a lodge. The pictures below are unstyled, taken on ordinary days, and they are the whole of what there is to show.

What they still do not answer is whether there is hot water, how many people share a room, or what the mosquito protection is. Those are below, as questions, until Qinty answers them.

A guest cabana with white walls, a wooden door and a red metal roof, standing under tall forest trees.

The cabanas

Separate cabanas with white walls and red metal roofs, set apart from one another on sloping ground under tall trees. You reach yours on a planted path.

A covered walkway of tiled floor and wooden posts running past the doors of two guest rooms, with forest falling away to the left.

The rooms

A covered walkway of tiled floor and wooden posts runs past the room doors, with the forest dropping away beside it.

The open air bathrooms: tiled stalls with deep red curtains and a washbasin, plants growing at the edge of the floor.

The bathrooms

Tiled stalls with curtains, open to the air, plants growing at the edge of the floor. This is what they look like, unstyled.

The view from the common area toward the malokas, across grass and planted ground.

Shared spaces

Where guests eat, rest and talk between sessions, looking across the planted ground toward the malokas.

The maloka: an open sided ceremony house with a red roof and a wide wooden floor, forest on every side.

The maloka

The open sided ceremony house on its own platform, red roof, wide wooden floor, forest on every side.

A hammock strung under the red roof of the maloka, with green leaves in the foreground.

Somewhere to do nothing

A hammock under the maloka roof. Most of a long retreat is spent somewhere like this, and that is on purpose.

The questions travellers ask

Every item below is a question, not a feature. None of them is claimed, because none has been confirmed. When Qinty answers, the answers appear here in place of the markers.

  • Private bathroomShared with you directly
  • Hot waterShared with you directly
  • Electricity and chargingShared with you directly
  • Fans or air conditioningShared with you directly
  • Mosquito protectionShared with you directly
  • HousekeepingShared with you directly
  • LaundryShared with you directly
  • Occupancy per roomShared with you directly
  • How many rooms and cabanasShared with you directly
  • Wi-Fi and mobile signalShared with you directly

If one of these decides whether you can come, ask before you book a flight. You will get a straight answer.