Life On The Ranch
Accommodation
During your stay at Copacabana, you will be the guest of a Bolivian ranching family. Their hacienda provides rustic comfort with authentic lodging and hearty meals.
The guesthouse on the hacienda is a cozy place to lay your head after a long day exploring the pampas. There are two shared bedrooms to choose from. The first contains two double and one single bed; the second contains two doubles and three singles. The ranch never hosts more than six guests at the time so sleeping arrangements can be made to respect your privacy. There is a shared guest bathroom and shower conveniently located next to the bedrooms.
Between ranch activities, you might take a siesta in the hammocks or play a hand of cards on the patio of the guesthouse. Filtered water is always available for all of our guests in the dining room as well as the guesthouse.
During your stay at Copacabana, you will be the guest of a Bolivian ranching family. Their hacienda provides rustic comfort with authentic lodging and hearty meals.
The guesthouse on the hacienda is a cozy place to lay your head after a long day exploring the pampas. There are two shared bedrooms to choose from. The first contains two double and one single bed; the second contains two doubles and three singles. The ranch never hosts more than six guests at the time so sleeping arrangements can be made to respect your privacy. There is a shared guest bathroom and shower conveniently located next to the bedrooms.
Between ranch activities, you might take a siesta in the hammocks or play a hand of cards on the patio of the guesthouse. Filtered water is always available for all of our guests in the dining room as well as the guesthouse.
|
|
|
Meals
All meals are served at the dining room table, alongside the ranch workers and their families. The women of the homestead cook local dishes using a wood burning clay oven and traditional tools like the tacu and manija, a giant mortar and pestle.
The cowboys rise before the rooster crows in the morning to tend the herds, returning after sunrise to fill their stomachs for the long day ahead. A typical ranch breakfast includes poached eggs, which are collected from the hens hours earlier. Eggs are served with fresh bread or fritos, fried dough patties filled with farm cheese. Tamarind and starfruit jams are homemade from fruits picked from the trees in the courtyard.
When the bell rings for lunch, pile your plate high with flavorful rice tossed with tender shredded beef…it is a cattle ranch after all! Marinated cucumbers and spicy pickled peppers (called aji) from the garden give the dish an extra kick. Wash the meal down with fresh squeezed grapefruit juice.
After sundown, everyone huddles around the dinner table to enjoy a hearty beef and vegetable soup. For the main course, the popular yucca root is featured in a savory yucca-cheese pie. If you catch the ladies preparing this dish earlier in the afternoon, give yucca-mashing a try with the manija. The pie is even more delicious when you appreciate the effort required for making it!
Lipiko sends guests to the ranch with wine to enjoy during their stay. Did we mention we’re a French tour operator? Tchin, Tchin!
All meals are served at the dining room table, alongside the ranch workers and their families. The women of the homestead cook local dishes using a wood burning clay oven and traditional tools like the tacu and manija, a giant mortar and pestle.
The cowboys rise before the rooster crows in the morning to tend the herds, returning after sunrise to fill their stomachs for the long day ahead. A typical ranch breakfast includes poached eggs, which are collected from the hens hours earlier. Eggs are served with fresh bread or fritos, fried dough patties filled with farm cheese. Tamarind and starfruit jams are homemade from fruits picked from the trees in the courtyard.
When the bell rings for lunch, pile your plate high with flavorful rice tossed with tender shredded beef…it is a cattle ranch after all! Marinated cucumbers and spicy pickled peppers (called aji) from the garden give the dish an extra kick. Wash the meal down with fresh squeezed grapefruit juice.
After sundown, everyone huddles around the dinner table to enjoy a hearty beef and vegetable soup. For the main course, the popular yucca root is featured in a savory yucca-cheese pie. If you catch the ladies preparing this dish earlier in the afternoon, give yucca-mashing a try with the manija. The pie is even more delicious when you appreciate the effort required for making it!
Lipiko sends guests to the ranch with wine to enjoy during their stay. Did we mention we’re a French tour operator? Tchin, Tchin!
|
|