Salento · Quindío · Colombia

Your corner of the world.

Tu rincón en Salento.

A traditional corner house, upstairs on Salento’s Calle Real: curtained bunks, one private double, a wall signed by travellers — and the Willys jeeps to Cocora a block away.

The Corner House at dusk: a white two-storey corner building with yellow painted eaves, green-and-yellow trim and wooden balconies, a lit sign at the corner and people walking on Salento’s main street — Photo: the hostel’s Instagram, 2019

Step inside

Up the stairs, through the door — into a painted forest.

Reception is wrapped in a botanical mural: bare branches, bromeliads and moss climbing the walls around the hostel’s logo. It’s the first thing you see when you arrive with your pack on.

Meet the house

Mural by @bamboleoart · photo: the hostel’s Instagram, 2019

The walls talk

Every wall here is a guestbook.

Names, flags, hearts, a hand-drawn jeep, advice for whoever sleeps in your bunk next: for years travellers have written on the walls and the kitchen counter. The 2019 photos below come from the hostel’s Instagram; its newest listing photos, from December 2024, show the wall still filling up.

Seven smiling travellers posing together in front of the message wall, hanging plants and painted flags around them

Archive · 2019

Eight guests crowded together laughing in front of the handwritten wall, one in a patterned bucket hat, another making a peace sign — One of those nightsApril 2019

Six young travellers at the reception mural holding the flags of Argentina and Mexico — Argentina and Mexico, same wallApril 2019

Three guests at a long wooden bar counter under hanging moss-ball plants, the white wall behind them covered in handwritten messages and drawings — Dinner at the counterDecember 2019

A guest writing on the kitchen wall; compact kitchen with cabinets, microwave and stove, the counter front covered in guests’ messages — Leaving a line in the kitchenDecember 2024 · still writing

More of the house

Why this corner

Small house. Big crossroads.

A house with history

A traditional corner house with painted eaves and wooden balconies — about 130 years old, by the hostel’s own account. You sleep upstairs; the street keeps the ground floor.
Travellers from everywhere

Bunks with curtains, a compact shared kitchen, a counter where tomorrow’s plans get made — and walls signed by the people who slept here before you.
Walk to everything

About a block to Plaza de Bolívar, the Willys jeeps and the cafés. Calle Real runs right past the door and climbs on to the Alto de la Cruz.
All of Quindío out the door

Wax palms in Cocora, coffee farms downhill, páramo for the brave. Reception helps you plan; independent operators run the trips.

Where you’ll sleep

Four rooms. One is private.

Three mixed dorms and a double — every bathroom is shared. No live prices here: ask about your dates or check the booking platforms.

Private Whole private room, for one or two people

Deluxe Double Room

The house’s one private room — a double bed and a shuttered window over the tiled roofs.
- Up to 2 guests
- 1 double bed
- 20 m²
- Shared bathrooms
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Dorm One bed in a shared mixed dorm — not a private room

Large Mixed Dorm

The big street-side dorm, with a balcony for watching Salento go by.
- Shared by up to 14 guests
- Bunk beds
- 45 m²
- Shared bathrooms
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8 Room photo coming from the hostel
Dorm One bed in a shared mixed dorm — not a private room

8-Bed Mixed Dorm

Four bunks, eight travellers, one compact room.
- Shared by up to 8 guests
- 8 beds in four bunks
- 17 m²
- Shared bathrooms
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Dorm One bed in a shared mixed dorm — not a private room

5-Bed Mixed Dorm

The smallest dorm in the house: five beds, curtains drawn.
- Shared by up to 5 guests
- 5 beds in bunks
- 15 m²
- Shared bathrooms
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