Chile-Buchupureo

If I could live in Buchupureo, I'd move to Chile!  It is a peaceful agricultural valley on the coast with great waves.  Not that I surf.  Buchupureo was really not effected by the tsunami even though they are very near the epicenter in Maule.

We stayed in a little B&B owned by Arturo (Los Maquis B&B).  He was there during the earthquake and it shook for 5 minutes!  They all evacuated to he nearby high ground, but there was no tsumani.  He was so curious about Scott's research so we swapped a lot of stories.  He happens to have a couple water trucks and a generator so was in a good position to deliver water and let people take showers at his place.  He said he had to help the people of the village or he would have cried all the time.  It was three months after the earthquake before the village had power.

He had only been open for a short time before the earthquake.  He had minor repairs to do, but it was 1.5 years before anyone came back to stay at his B&B. Ironically, his extended family from Santiago brought supplies and waited out the crisis in Buchupureo.