Guango Lodge

Guango Lodge is a lodge amidst the cloud forest of Papallacta. The surrounding 300 hectares are conserved and owned by the same family as the lodge. The lodge began in the 1960s with the vision of an engineer and inventor who constructed a prototype house using local flagstone and a unique curved bamboo cane vault system. Thirty years later, the inventor’s brother built a more permanent residence using similar principles. This two-story structure, with its river stone walls and reinforced concrete vault, became the heart of Guango Lodge in 2001.