PATAGONIA SOUTHERN REGION OF SOUTH AMERICA

We can start telling about this journey years ago. From the years when my father met what and I met with the instrument. But we're going to start this journey from a much farther away place, in Chile in South America, and we're going to try to make this journey by bike.In this section, we will cover the part from Osorno in the south of Chile to Punta Arenas, one of the most extreme regions of the continent. The Ferry we had to use between ruta interlagos, caratera Austra and Tortel-Puerto Nathales, which we passed during the journey, allowed us to meet new people and new experiences. At the same time, when we decided to skip the pandemic process on the road, we did not actually threaten that the process could become so difficult. Now we will follow the journey of the "saz" and the "ney" we carried together in a town close to the border crossings that we were waiting for to be opened in order to arrive in Punta Arenasta Ushunai.

The main purpose of our journey is to establish a bond between people through a means of communication that goes beyond language and to introduce the instruments that create this bond to people from different cultures as much as we can. These instruments can sometimes be a musical instrument, sometimes a picture, and sometimes the most primitive forms of behavior. We thought that a few different features of the "saz" and "ney" that we have in our hands would help us on this journey. These musical instruments are not very foreign to the continent, but they are not known at all in the local areas. We can say that the main purpose of our journey is to make people feel a part of Anatolian culture in their own hearts thanks to these musical instruments, which they have never met or seen, and whose sound they have heard for the first time. These estrums will accompany us in an even more universal way than the language of the cultural values of Anatolia.

Gonzalo; He accompanied us to different places throughout the journey. We traveled together between Caleta Gonzalo-Caillten and Puerto Rio Tranqilo-Tortel. We climbed many hills together, and his communication with the instrument and what gave us more courage for the journey.

Alejandro opened his house for us in Puerto Rio Tranqilo and told us that he was waiting at his house on the way to this small town where we entered in an incredible rain.Ricardo and I spent a full month together, and his face really gave me a very clear picture of the land of chile Patagonia. There was no water, electricity or bathroom in the house we stayed in, but there was a stream very close to the house and a clean air. We had the opportunity to spend a lot of time with Mate and I learned a lot about Mate. During the month we worked in the forest, I felt in my hands exactly what a destructive force forestry is in Patagonia. The pine trees of the Patagonia region were brought here by the Spaniards and are now in an industrial production. It causes serious damage to the soil, but it is a business that people have been doing regularly for many years. No one is happy, but this industry in this region is still going on.

The main reason for our choice to move forward by bicycle is to communicate with as many people and nature as possible. As you move more slowly and calmly, you feel the areas you live in more and more. It can establish closer cultural ties with its people and nature. For example, playing a piece of Anatolia into the rivers of Patagonia and trying to explain Anatolian culture with an instrument that the local people have never met opens new doors in people's emotions. We present the cultural seeds we have from Anatolia to people and nature here on this continent, accompanied by "saz" and "ney".