Tents
For those travelling with their own sleeping bag, pitches among the olive trees.
Volunteers · light guests · scout camps
Eleven dwellings: six Herb Dens, four Nests in the Trees, the Seed. Each carries the name of a plant, a bird, a form. At Gaya you don't sleep in a room — you sleep inside a story.
Six A-frame wooden dens, each named after a medicinal plant of the Mediterranean. The story of every plant — etymology, properties, uses — waits for you on the bedside table when you arrive.
Four suspended stilt-cabins, each named after a bird that actually lives at Gaya. You sleep among the leaves, you wake to the song.
A small wooden house with a pointed roof — the shape of a seed about to sprout. One room, an en-suite bathroom, one bed. The most comfortable of our dwellings.
Available as an option in the residential programmes and for those coming for an individual retreat.
See the programmes →For those who travel light, for larger groups, for teachers coming to lead a retreat: Gaya also offers these three simpler solutions, lighter than the Dens and the Nests.
For those travelling with their own sleeping bag, pitches among the olive trees.
Volunteers · light guests · scout camps
Beds in a shared A-frame dormitory, up to 10 people.
Scouts · groups · residential camps
The card of your plant on the bedside table, a dried bunch beside it, a sachet of herbal tea picked at Gaya in the cup. The name of the bird that sings above your nest. The shape of the seed in the Seed's house.
On the site we tell you where you sleep and with which name. The rest is matter to be lived — not read.
Gaya isn't a tourist accommodation — it's a choice. We're organised as an experiential learning centre of the Gaya APS — Mondo di Unione, and you enter here as a companion of an experience, not as an AirB&B guest.
Hospitality in the dwellings is reserved for members of the association who take part in workshops, retreats, educational experiences, volunteer camps — experiences always longer than a single day and built around a learning programme. Membership is part of the access path.
You don't just sleep at Gaya. You live Gaya. Choose from the calendar, or write to build a custom path with your group.
"Bring comfortable shoes, a torch
and natural ecological soaps."