{"id":1214,"date":"2011-09-09T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girovai2.wandcclients.com\/i-was-on-the-right-path-2\/"},"modified":"2014-08-19T08:12:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T08:12:04","slug":"i-was-on-the-right-path-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/es\/i-was-on-the-right-path-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I was on the right path"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sought to develop a project that would allow me to leave the big city and get closer to nature. I moved from Buenos Aires to Puerto Montt. I had two cities in mind, Bariloche and Puerto Montt, and my project was always to unite the two cities.\u00a0 I felt that Puerto Montt had a lot of unexplored potential for tourism and there was space to develop my idea. So I decided to stay in Puerto Montt and use this as my base.<\/span><\/p>\n

I visited the Valley of Puelo River, in Cocham\u00f3 60 miles east of Puerto Montt for the first time with my mother, who is French and a pioneer in the valley. She went on to live on an island called Las Bandurrias, situated in the middle of Las Rocas Lake.<\/p>\n

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I decided to build on what historically had always happened in this area. A crossing path used by the Chileans and Argentineans, the former to get there supplies and the latter to reach the Pacific Ocean. I thought this place would be ideal to develop a business, in a place where I would love to go on holiday. I imagined myself showing the tourists the amazing landscapes, trails, lakes and rivers and treating them as I would my friends. I wanted to share with the tourists the lifestyle of the locals.<\/p>\n

So I started to explore the Valley of Puelo River. It was another world, isolated, disconnected from everything. I was surprised how easily locals solved everyday problems. This is what we call \u201cbaqu\u00eda\u201d (practical knowledge of paths, shortcuts, roads, rivers of a country). Solving problems in this area is not easy you need to be very creative and resourceful. It is a remote place where many elements of modern life are missing and makes you appreciate the essential things.<\/p>\n

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Despite the difficulties in the area, I worked with a team of locals who now receive tourists into their homes, sharing their food, culture and experiences. Visitors get a simpler life experience, away from their everyday preoccupations. The Puelo River and Cocham\u00f3 Valley are the \u201cpearl\u201d of Patagonia. It is a place of diverse landscapes and routes where you can still walk without encountering anyone.<\/p>\n

A visitor told me two years ago exactly what I wanted to hear, \u201cDuring my trip, when I stayed with the locals in their houses I felt I was treated like a friend, I had known for a long time. They offered me the best they had\u201d. That was the comment that made me realise that I was on the right path.<\/p>\n

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WRITTEN BY CATHERINE B\u00c9RARD<\/p>\n

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I sought to develop a project that would allow me to leave the big city and get closer to nature. I moved from Buenos Aires to Puerto Montt. I had two cities in mind, Bariloche and Puerto Montt, and my project was always to unite the two cities.  I felt that Puerto Montt had a lot of unexplored potential for tourism and there was space to develop my idea. So I decided to stay in Puerto Montt and use this as my base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patagonia-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girovai.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}