ABOUT SKY HACIENDA

June Donaldson and Edward Garry live at an altitude of 2,600 metres in Mosoj Llajta, Yotala, 20 minutes from the colonial city of Sucre in Bolivia, South America. Using earth and stones from the land, we have sculpted beautiful buildings which compliment the high desert landscape and incorporate creative and innovative elements of design.

We have designed a high quality hotel in Sucre for guests who want to get off the treadmill of travelling from city to city in South America. At Sky Hacienda you can dictate your own timing and choose how to enjoy your stay, whether it is doing very little or exploring the best that the Andes in Bolivia has to offer.

15 January 2011

TERRACING THE POOL

Any chance we had of filling the pool in one shot in January was out of the question.  For a start we could not find a big tanker to transport the water to our property, only small ones that were expensive.  Using them would cost £400/$600 to fill the pool.

Another factor was that after two months of drought conditions the rainy season came in with a vengeance.  Continual downpours bounced mud and stones into the pool, and it was clear that we had to proceed straight away with terracing the pool.

Terracing of pool and jacuzzi/spa
The good news was that we were able to fill our 11,000 litre cistern from our well four times a day as there was so much water being fed from the aquifer.  Also we were harnessing a lot of rainwater from our huge living room roof which we fed into the cistern.

We decided to add a jacuzzi/spa during the work, which we would later tile with blue/green mosaic tiles to break up the large expanses of grey concrete.

Once the terracing was completed around the pool we could start to fill it - a complete cistern-full every 5 days.   It was a slow process but as the pool filled we were able to swim at the deep end.

Filling the pool little by little

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