Great Mexico adventure

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new products for 6 euro, collected the products ourselves. Flowers, coconutoil nutsoil, enjoy

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Shoes are for the city. I am enjoying the energy of this miraculous place called tepotzlan. I slept inside earthhouses, temascal bamboodomes and meditation rooms... Good night inspirations! During the days I was playing around with bamboo and earth or took a hike in the mountains. I found out that i can nearly eat anything, wood, earth, flowers.... Try, taste, feel, try more. Big thanks to Permaculturarte, bambudome, bambuark and horos for feeling like home!

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To get a better understanding of domes you should build a maquette and play with the shaps, Enjoyeble and I now I re-remember what I loved about lego in my childhood. The last pictures shows a bamboo roof supported by clawshap feets. Which we constructed last weekend. Make domes not war

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Some pictures of the suroundings, happy to climb

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The last month I have spend my time in tepotzlan at BambuArk. A very creative place were Leo, crazy colombian bamboo master taught me all i needed to know of bamboo. Recycling, reusing and build with what you have!!! Very usefull for my next project!!;) Also my hamacatas loved this place, the short elements constructions give him many possibilities to hang loose. And since this place is a center of friends, clients and others how just what to take a look... It got a lot of exposure. Soon I will give a workshop in making your own personalised hamocks! Entering tepotzlan a sign says, pueblo magico, i agree. so many weird strange projects, passionated 0pen minded friends. I will be back

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I was the spectator of this nature phenomenon, amazing golden ants paraded to who knows where…

Being in and around nature shows me what is our place.

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La finca de la Felicidad, 

Thanks to Jan, (a friend from Tjech republic I met in a project in Guanajuato)  and allot of luck I arrived at a place called 'La Finca de la Felicidad' nearby Palenque. Beautiful people, permaculture, natural building, community life and  life lessons never to forget, Wow! 

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Visiting a friend, Frederico in Tabasco. Learn to make bio-fertilizers, Exploring a terrain for a potential graduation project named Hobbit Earth houses, exiting times!

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Surviving with my hammockbag! :)

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My third and last project in 2014 will be in Queretaro! 

The last 4 days I slept in 3 different apartments, met new friends while asking directions. Everything just seems to flow in the direction I want, call it luck? quien sabe.. Every time I change my location I am lucky to have insights to the lives of so many, every single one living its own life, but however the (sub)culture difference, we are all the same.

Gracias queretaro!

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From one paradise into another, Casa Naomin!

Casa Naomin is an familie project who opens their doors to everyone who want to help to realize their plans, making a natural paradise from 25 hectares of beautiful nature. They plan to make a yoga school, permaculture a hostal and much more all made out of natural building materials.

learning from the nature!

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The extraordinary city of Guanajuato,

Colonial buildings, plazas filled with strange square shaped trees and colored houses.... I have never been so overwhelmed and amazed by one city. At this moment the festival Cervantino is organized, just too good to be true. 

Im sleeping in a house of a friend of a friend I knew from Xalapa. Next saterday I plan to leave this city and settle somewhere on the countryside at a farm. Here I will continue with my second project.

be one, keep calm

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Disfrutar Veracruz, 

Exploring the different beings of water, sea, river and lake in the province Veracruz, Mexico. I could thrive in the cold mountain water and climbing various trees! 

We are all animals!

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Goodbye Xalapa

My first project located in Xalapa, were I was trained by Manolo, is coming to his end. I learned allot of constructing with earth, I lived the rich culture and improved my spanish (paso con paso) and met allot of new beautiful friends. Now it is time to say goodbye even through I could stay here for a infinite time longer without getting bored! 

Thanks Manolo and thanks Xalapa for the rich life lessons.

P.s. an exclusive interview (English subtitles) with Manolo founder of Tojcha Tlalli will be on jespermaking.tumblr.com very soon. 

Tu vida es lo que tus pensamientos son! 

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Different view,

I changed my hammock, why? because it is nice to wake up with a different view every morning :).

Change life, love change! 

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Climbing in Jalcomulco, Cerro Brujo

Jalcomulco is a little village with allot of outdoor sport accommodations like rafting and climbing!  The rocks are amazing and one creative tree house constructor made from his passion his job, constructing tree houses, caves and climbing walls. With a couple of new friends I visited this amazing place… climbing ‘el crítica’… oeff

  Gracias Cerro Brujo

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Rainy nights

Thanks to the heavy rain I found out that there was a leak in my design, it was literally not waterproof... so for one night I changed my hamacatas for an improvised bed made by my construction workers friends. (Muchas gracias)  In the maintime I could solve the drainage-problem.

Rain is refreshing!