RANCHERO PROGRAM

Based at a 20 hectare organic farming hacienda, located in the north west of the Province of Pichincha (map of Ecuador), it is a perfect back drop for learning Spanish in a comfortable and relaxed atmosphere.

Students take Spanish classes in the afternoon, following a morning of optional educational volunteer work around the hacienda. Daily activities include working with traditional Andean tools in the fields, applying modern techniques of organic agriculture in our extensive vegetable gardens, or perhaps working with the animals - an early rise to milk the cows!

This program is totally flexible, giving students independent comfortable accommodation, with or without meals (you can help yourself to the tasty delights of the vegetable plot) and for those preferring to just take classes, there are a variety of tourist possibilities with which to keep busy; pre-Incan ruins at Cochasquí, local community visits, the Biscocho ovens in Otavalo or for the more active, a march to the nearby Lagunas de Mojanda. Please click here for pricing information.

For further details about the volunteer work please visit our partner's web page, the Fundacion Brethren y Unida (FBU), at www.fbu.com.ec and click here to read a former students letter of thanks to the Instituto and the FBU.

To contact us please email: superior@ecnet.ec

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