A Spanish and a Chilean met in
Amsterdam. Together they decided
to make the leap
to go to Chile
and change their way of life.
Rocío and Marcelo wandered from
South
to North, backpacking to
off the beaten
track spots,
hitchhiking by gravel side
roads…and
then, they arrived in a bus
full of locals at a small and totally
out-of-the-way village that
wasn´t even
on the map: Huelmo.
They stayed there and throughout
the
months, they learnt to fish with
their neighbour Sigi, señora
Laura taught them
how to make
bread, they
got to know birds
and native
trees and above all,
they observed how
villagers
lived from the land,their
livestock and the sea.
From then on, Rocío and Marcelo lived
in a humble way, working
with
nature (not
against it) using Permaculture
and
bio-building techniques and
trying
to reduce their
environmental
impact.
And still looking for a land
for living, they
got it
in the
heart of Patagonia, on the
shores of
General Carrera lake:
Puerto Guadal. Here
they found a
place where they could
learn
from local culture, where
they
could create new projects
and
meet people from all
over the
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