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(5) Activities: Caminos Posaderos Andinos is composed of a growing network of excursion routes having different degrees of difficulty that allow the visitor to go through exceptionally beautiful areas.
All along this network, the Asociación de Baquianos y Posaderos del Páramo (ASOBAP), a cooperative funded as part of the project, offers the traveler a wide range of services that assure a pleasant and safe trip, full of authentic experiences. These services range from guiding, to rental of camping equipments, lodging, etc.
The Mucuposadas, operated by members of ASOBAP, are traditional houses reconditioned to offer the visitor food and lodging services in a simple and warm manner. The Mucuposadas are distributed in a logical manner along the Caminos Posaderos Andinos (Andean Inn Routes) and, in many cases, they are the sole option for lodging in relatively unknown places of great beauty.
Since they are small enterprises managed by local families, ASOBAP chose to distinguish the lodging they offer from traditional lodging by using the prefix “mucu”, which means “place of” in the old local native language.
(6) Benefits to community and environment: The project trains and advises communities in and near the national parks in the Mérida Cordillera on how to benefit from existing tourism. Community-based tourism is an important economic alternative for these communities. Moreover, the economic benefits attributed to the existence of the parks facilitates conservation work.
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