About Us
We planted this forest together with the community around it
Twenty years ago this was abandoned cattle pasture in the Antioquian Andes, in a town the rest of the country only heard about in war reports. Today it is 23,000 trees planted one by one together with the rural community around us, 140 recorded species of birds that came back on their own, and three cabins where you sleep without a single sound from the city.
A queen bed downstairs. In the loft, a double mattress and a catamaran net you can lie in to read, with the forest in front of you. Sleeps four adults, or two adults and three children under 12.
Every cabin has its own Japanese ofuro hot tub, a full kitchen, a hot shower and floor-to-ceiling windows. Your dog is welcome.
We did not build a place for you to come and look at the forest. We built it so the forest could give you back something you stopped having.
Yes, it is named after the monkey
The silvery brown tamarin, Saguinus leucopus, lives nowhere in the world but Colombia. They were already here when we started the project, in the little forest still standing. There are more of them now, because there is more forest. And now they plant it too: they disperse seeds the way birds do. We started the planting. We are no longer the only ones.
The founders have personally directed every decision about this forest for twenty years. We planted part of the 23,000 trees ourselves, and hired families from the vereda, the rural community around us, to plant the rest, so this forest also became real work for the people of San Carlos. We stay just as involved today as we were on day one.