This trip was a huge opportunity for me to get involved with emotions, landscapes and peoples that reflect my own mestizo identity. Being able to feel in such a short time honest friendship and feeling welcomed in these landscapes, makes me think about what really links us together as compatriots with indigenous people that have been oppressed and almost ignored for generations. Feelings of surviving pride and struggles over legitimate aspirations gave form to my wish to live a “new pact” from each simple glance and the sincerity of each word. To start literally building, from a track, a bridge of trust that allow us to see clearly the importance of a community that with dignity is looking for its own place in a society that’s homogenizing and segregates its own roots.

More than just a tourist product, more than emotions and beautiful landscapes, going into the corners of the Pewen and its people, by foot, horse or bicycle, is a life experience that gets deep into our feelings of pride, of belonging to a country in which original people still live, still fight, and who want to keep in our eyes the fruits of their identity, resisting and surviving. By means of a simple trip, we must work with them not just for the success of a micro-enterprise, but for the recognition of a culture, way beyond their tracks, and see together new and better alternatives for the future, in peace.