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(NaturalNews) As news of Vilcabamba (the "Valley of Longevity") has spread, more and more people have expressed interest in potentially buying land in the valley, moving there and living in this natural paradise. Perhaps due to my own enthusiasm about the area, I am emerged as the key person attracting new potential residents to the area. In fact, I'm hosting a real estate tour in three days, plus another one in June that's already so booked up that I'm preparing for a third one in early August.
As an advocate of this area (and Ecuador in general), I've watched and learned a tremendous amount about how gringos (that's a polite term for "foreigners") interact with locals, shop for land, build communities and build their own homes. I've seen huge successes and big mistakes, too, but the most important thing I've noticed is that the kind of people being attracted to Vilcabamba are truly among the most amazing individuals on our planet.
These are people who have the wisdom, experience and intelligence to literally reinvent what it means to live in community. Living here, interacting with these people, I am getting a very strong sense that the Valley of Longevity is situated to become a very important "knowledge center" for the world. People routinely discuss advance ideas here about recycling, sustainable living, local food production, barter system economies and revolutionary approaches to money, medicine and all-important happiness.
Part of the success of this process is, I believe, the valley-wide realization that we are all interdependent. We need each other's skills, contributions and voices, and the more we can recognize and leverage each other's contributions, the more successful, abundant and happy we will all be. (This simple realization is often lost in large-scale cities or nations, where an individual can often feel "lost" in the masses.)
Along these lines of interdependence, I have been pondering for some time the creation of a statement of guiding principles for newcomers to Vilcabamba, Ecuador. This isn't a binding legal document, but rather a simple guide to the important principles that the vast majority of the gringos in Vilcabamba adhere to in one way or another.
I am now distributing this document to each person I take on a real estate tour in Vilcabamba, and I'm encouraging people to share this document with others. If you are considering coming to Vilcabamba for buying land or even just visiting, please read these guiding principles. If they don't click with you, Vilcabamba is probably not a good fit for you. But if these make good sense to you, you may indeed find yourself falling in love with this Andean paradise of Southern Ecuador.
Guiding Principles for Gringos Coming to Ecuador#1) REMEMBER THAT WE ARE GUESTS IN THIS COUNTRY
Remember this at all times: We are the guests here, and we are only welcomed in Vilcabamba by the grace of the Ecuadorian locals and the Ecuadorian government. If we are bad guests, we will likely be asked to stop coming. But if we are good guests who contribute something valuable to the region, we will always be welcomed.
#2) TREAT LOCAL PEOPLE WITH RESPECT
As guests, we must always remember to treat the local people with great respect and humility. Even though we may bring far more money to the valley than the local people are capable of earning, we must not let money reduce us to economic "classes" of people. Give 'em rides in your truck if they need a ride. Help out the locals who are living in extreme poverty. Give money to expand the local library, or just buy more books for the children to read! Do something that shows your respect for the lives of the people who live here.
#3) LEARN THE LOCAL LANGUAGE
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