📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Cascadas del Ñuble is a recreation center taken care of by its owners and people from the Veguillas community, which provides various tourism services such as rural tourism, fly fishing, traditional cuisine, outdoor activities, among others, and it is well equipped to meet the needs of the passengers. It is characterized as a quiet, friendly, comfortable place away from civilization where volunteers can be in contact with nature and the environment field, surrounded by lagoons and rivers. It is inserted in the
mountains surrounded by incredible scenery on the banks of Ñuble River 20 kilometers from the town of San Fabian de Alico Falls.
💼 What the programme involves
Tasks:
- Feed the animals and clean their stables, free them in the morning and lock them in the afternoon (Horses, sheeps, rabbits and cows)
- Feed birds, cleaning their pens, remove the eggs, check incubators (ducks, geese, chickens, moorhens, peacocks, pheasants)
- Feed the fish and clean their pools (trout, catfish, Koy Karaceos)
- Worm: greenhouse, native plant nursery, home garden.
- Tourism: Attend kiosk, gardening, pool, cabins, go to walking trails, Mountain bike
- May help building rural cabins or fixing woden structures
He/she has breakfast with the family and other volunteers, later she/he feeds animals and frees them, do some gardening or greenhouse job and help in the kitchen for lunch. After lunch she/he can relax for a while a take a walk in the surroundings until it's time to lock the animals at the end of the day and then go back to the house for dinner. There are no fixed working times, but the volunteers help in the daily activities as if they were part of the family.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Volunteers share the main house with the owners of the farm and other volunteers.
🍲 Food
The participants have their 3 meals per day, from Monday to Sunday.
📍 About the location
Chillán city is an urban area, but the project is two hours from that city. It is a country side, separated by a big river and there it starts the real experience. Cascadas del Ñuble is a place surrounded by beautiful landscapes and real country life, with people who was raised from birth in there, so they are kind, helpful, and very traditional people.
🎒 Leisure activities
They can visit the whole countryside from San Fabián de Alico, Chillán and Concepción city.