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We are a Franco-Chilean couple living at the foothill of the Malalcura Mountain, in the village of San Fabian, 5 hours south of Santiago and 1 hour up to the Andes. We live in a land with wonderful native forest and we are now developing our life project. We built our home here and we need to start our organic vegetables garden and orchard. We are mountaineers, Kora work in tourism with local horseman (miguel) and Chalo in wildlife conservation. We have a kid (Mateo) who has five years old, and speaks french and spanish, ride his bike, and love the little cars. We know almost every corner in the region, and we can take you in a beautiful trip in the mountains. We love food, as good French, Kora have a magic recipes book from her grandmother with delicious dishes you can try if you work hard!!
For us it is very important to live in a natural and healthy way, we eat almost everything organic. We are not vegetarians, just because the local goats bred in the mountain are so good!!
Come and enjoy with us the nature in San Fabian!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Farmstay help
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We are agronomists, and we work on tourism with local people from the mountains. Kora is a botanist with a wide knowledge about native flora (she discovered a new genera of plant here in San Fabian!), and Chalo is a conservation biologist specialized on bats. With us you could learn about our wildlife, and meet local horseman from the Andes, go to climb or to hike the mountains surrounding the village...
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We are working on our garden project, we bult our house last year, but obviously it is not finished...
There is allways a lot of blackberry to cut and remove, we have a huge compost place, we have a cellar where we stock our tools and firewood. We need to open some path into the native forest, We already have three bridges to cross a little river and a dry toilet... we need a fourth bridge...
We have a little cabbin to receive you! but it is also not finished, so if you want to do some wood work, you can!
Around the year we need help in the garden in diferet ways (the garden is huge!!).
Autumn: Help to trim the fruit trees of the garden, and to plant new trees.
Winter: Cut some trees (exotic pines) to saw them in order to obtain wood for our house.
Spring: Take care of fruit trees, mow the grass... a LOT of grass.
Summer: Watering plants, mow the grass and make bales, build little dams in the river,
You only will need energy and good vibes!!
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Spanish: Fluent
French: Fluent
Accommodation
The little cabbin is just perfect!!
What else ...
The village of San Fabian is located in the Biosphere Reserve (UNESCO) "Corredor biologico Nevados de Chillán, laguna del Laja". You will be atonished to find beautifull landscapes and local people. The Ñuble river is perfect for rafting and kayaking, there are some tourism agencies who can take you on a trip, Kora has her own agency.. At the marketplace you could find delicious honey, organic vegetables, handcraft, blue eggs and many other local products.
from santiago you can get to San Carlos by train or by bus, it takes 6 hours, and then you can take a small bus or hitchhike to San Fabian (45km). We can go for you to San Carlos if we need to go there.
During your free time, you can go to the river to swim, you can take a horse ride in the mountain, or hike to the top of the Malalcura to get a magnific view to the Andes.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have a super cabbin in the forest, with water,12V electricity, and surrounded by trees. telephone signal there is quite good. Anyways we have internet at home.
Space for parking camper vans
We have a land 2.7 hectares where you can park your campervan, there is a dry toilet and potable water.
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
4-5 hours / 5 days
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I stayed approximately 2 weeks with this lovely family. I helped with general cleaning in the house, played with the young Mateo, picked fruits and did different activities in their new land. The work was hard sometimes but the delicious food cooked by Kora and the good vibes of the family… read more
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I stayed approximately 2 weeks with this lovely family. I helped with general cleaning in the house, played with the young Mateo, picked fruits and did different activities in their new land. The work was hard sometimes but the delicious food cooked by Kora and the good vibes of the family… read more
Gabi will talk to you slowly and will be interested in everything, she is lovely with kids, cooks delicious American and all around the world meals, work hard in the garden and is… read more
We spent a super week in our house, they played a lot with Mateo, and helped us in the house. They went during two nights to a lake in… read more
She worked hard on our land, she painted all the wood buildings with "l'huile… read more
Both worked on the concrete slab of our shed, help us to cook, washed the dishes, made the compost of the land, took off blackberry’s roots.... and they help us with the… read more
I can only encourage you to meet this beautiful little family, where you will feel at home. I had a short but great stay with them. They are adorable, generous, and they cook wonderfully well! They are also very interesting people who have a lot to teach you. I save the best for last, Mateo, their son, a super cute little boy, who is… read more
We had a very nice time with them, practising our english. We shared a yoga session in the village, and worked hard in the field planting trees and moving mountains of cutted grass for a future compost.
As they said, their Londoner skills for… read more
We spent a very nice and productive week with you!!!
With Marina and Ascen we worked some days in our land, they were strong collecting wood, stones and fruits from the garden, it is looking more organized now... We walked around the land getting ideas, we visited the waterfall of the Lara Valley near San Fabian and they went… read more
