The Earth Lodge

Last weekend Jeff and I spent one night at the Earth Lodge, a mountain lodge and avocado farm located about 20 minutes outside of Antigua in a little town called El Hato.

There is really no public transportation to and from the lodge, but Jeff and I were able to ride in the back of a pickup truck that was setup by the owners of the lodge. The pickup had to drop us off about a 10 minute downhill walk from the lodge (not so bad on the way down but extremely painful on the way up thanks to the super high altitude).

When we finally made it to the lodge the first thing we noticed was the view. It was definitely a “Wow!” moment. Check it out:

Us on the path to the lodge

The lodge has a ton of seating set up for enjoying the view and a ton of outside activities too. Jeff and I spent our time laying in hammocks,

playing corn hole, cards, board games (Risk!), and darts.

We met some really cool people while relaxing/playing games. There were about 20 people at the lodge for the night and since dinners are served family style, we got to know each other over dinner.

The food at the dinner was really good too. The lodge is known for their food (especially their vegetarian meals) and we feasted on pork chops, roasted chicken, salad with banana dressing, mashed potatoes, mixed veggies, and the most AMAZING beer bread with garlic butter. I ate about 6 pieces of the bread. For dessert they had homemade (of course) banana bread, not my thing, but Jeff said it was great.

Jeff's delicioso plate

After dinner, and some more Risk playing, Jeff and I retired for the night to our tree cabin!! It was so cool:

The tree cabin!

Meet our tree

The cabin had two floors, with a very comfortable bed on each floor.  It also had one wall that was entirely made of glass that looked out onto the three volcanoes and the valley.

View from our cabin

There was also a built in window seat to enjoy the view:

Jeff and I slept on the top floor and we fell asleep to the twinkling lights of the city below. It was perfect…

well almost.

There was only one thing missing from the cabin. A bathroom. We used these:

Yay for peeing in a hole in the ground!

As far as out-houses go though, these were beautiful. No complaints from me.

I was disappointed though when I found out that we had access to a real toilet all weekend and we just didn’t know it. It was located right next to the out-house too! We just completely missed it! Oh well. It was probably better that we didn’t know. It made our trip more wildernessy.

No real bathroom + no shower usage = surprisingly, the best time ever.

 

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