CHUGCHILAN AND BLACK SHEEP INN, ECUADOR

Finalist Destination Stewardship Award 2005

Black Sheep Inn aims to provide a comfortable, educational experience for guests, teaching them about the local area, local customs and Permaculture, while contributing to and improving the local community and the natural environment. The goal is to be a leader in environmental stability and ecotourism.

Internationally Acclaimed - Award Winning Eco-Lodge

Black Sheep Inn offers affordable lodging in the heart of the rural Ecuadorian Andes. Truly off the beaten path, you can enjoy horseback riding, mountain biking, and day hiking. The hotel has spectacular views, delicious vegetarian cooking, home baked deserts, wood-fired sauna and hot-tub, zipline cable swing, solar-powered waterslide, Frisbee golf course, family fun and adventure.

"Top 10 Eco Lodge in the World" * Outside Magazine

Eco-Permaculture features include: solar panels, adobe construction, composting toilets, recycling, roof-water collectors, gray-water systems, organic gardens, community education and aid work, reforestation, erosion control and more.

Day hikers and walkers paradise: there are several micro-climates and attractions all within walking distance including: Laguna Quilotoa, a volcanic crater-lake, Rio Toachi Canyon, Iliniza Ecological Reserve, with huge tracts of Cloud Forest and high Andean Paramó alpine grasslands.